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[Ocelot II]

1. I think you should quit while you're ahead, whether or not you're ahead.

This extremely thorny matter that has stymied actual experts for decades will not be solved by a bunch of randos on an internet message board, and is likely to just piss people off and get the thread locked.

[Pantagruel]

3. People should be pissed off

because lots of people are dying and will die from what might be a really bad idea. As liberals we can't hide from free speech and open minds, too much censorship on both sides.

[Ocelot II]

8. How do you think getting pissed off on a message board

will improve a situation that's resisted solutions for decades? Are we to send our ideas to Netanyahu and whichever asshole is in charge of Hamas and tell them we've come up with a great idea nobody ever thought of before, like shipping all the Israelis to Wyoming as previously suggested?

[Pantagruel]

14. Bibi and Hamas

are locked into a death spiral. New ideas will have no effect on them.

OK, and it's not "shipping all the Israelis to Wyoming" . They'd go voluntarily to a safe place not surrounded by 400 million Arabs who feel threatened by them. And the world would be safer for it.

[calimary]

5. Well, there is that.

I don’t see any kind of mutually-satisfying solution either. None.

[Disaffected]

15. So, supposedly mature adults cannot

discuss "thorny" matters here, even if some folks get "pissed off" about it?

It's not much of a forum IMO if that is the case.

[LudwigPastorius]

2. "Let's consider some alternatives ?"

Your thread. You go first.

[Pantagruel]

4. Already did:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218389492

[LudwigPastorius]

6. Then why post another thread?

[Pantagruel]

9. Why?

Because of an unexplained lock out of that thread, I can't post there.

[Mosby]

10. When one of your posts is hidden, you can't post in the thread.

That's what happened.

[LudwigPastorius]

12. Take it up with the mods, or...

perhaps take it as a hint that you crossed the "kooky" threshold and were locked out for that reason.

[Pantagruel]

16. I protested

got no response. Does that mean it was rejected?

[brush]

13. If either side nukes the other, the whole region suffers as nuclear fallout...

doesn't stay contained within international borders, it spreads far and wide throughout the region, so that's out even though it was just a hypothetical.

[sarisataka]

7. Given Hamas track record

There is a much greater than zero percent chance Gaza would receive to nuke. Of course they'll just blame it on Israel.

Ethnic cleansing was tried as a solution in the 30s and 40s.

[Pantagruel]

11. Anyone who has the cash

probably could get a nuke from North Korea. In a hypothetical, the how is mostly irrelevant.