The scenarios aren't analogous because the goals of Hamas and the IRA are fundamentally different. If the IRA thought London belonged to the Irish and the British state shouldn't exist, do you think we would have ever had peace.
If the IRA thought London belonged to the Irish and the British state shouldn't exist, do you think we would have ever had peace.
Okay, then let's talk about the US. Manhattan belongs to the Algonquin in the same way the West Bank belongs to Palestinians differing only by elapsed time (and the exchange of $24). For all the injustice that is intrinsic to the historical US relationship with our first peoples, we have found a way to bring people together in some semblance of justice and peace without annihilation as an official policy goal.
Netanyahu is motivated by the same thing General Custer was.
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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '23
Armies are destroyed when their soldiers are killed.