Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)between one of the other. I think they are loathsome, repressive thugs.
You know perfectly well I oppose Hamas. I don't have to say that it would have been better to keep the IDF in Gaza to prove that. It serves no purpose to keep framing everything about this as "either/or".
Why are you so fixated on making me choose between options that are equally abhorrent to me? I never thought of Hamas as liberators. I'm against their being in power in Gaza, but it's not really an occupation as such. I'd call it a usurpation.
Finally, why are you so fixated in vindicating the IDF presence in Gaza when you know perfectly well there is no way to re-establish it? What purpose would it serve in getting people to agree that they should have stayed, when it's obvious that they can't go back and that history can't be reversed?