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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The interests of Palestinians and the interests of Hamas aren't the same thing. Egypt is doing the right thing by building refugee camps. But they also don't want Hamas to be able to move freely in their country and link up with elements of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Hamas is a terrorist organization, it's a tricky balance between helping the Palestinian people without giving the Hamas terrorists among them free movement in Egypt.

A lot of Hamas will die. The question is, how many Palestinian civilians do you want to die along with them?

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Their interests seem pretty aligned on the issue of stopping the genocide. I don't know what other interests you think they have that conflict with the well being of Palestinians but I doubt they're even in the same ballpark as that extremely pressing, immediate issue.

Have you learned nothing from the "war on terror"? You can't kill a distributed, loosely connected, highly entrenched resistance by bombing it away. If America couldn't manage it in Iraq, what makes you think America Jr. is gonna pull it off? Shoving Palestinians off their land is the goal here, not killing Hamas.

Also fuck you for calling Egypt enclosing an undeveloped patch of desert with a wall a "refugee camp". Clown.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Do you see the distinction between the US fighting a war on the other side of the world and Israel fighting against terrorists within home made rocket range?

The US had the option to pull out. Israel does not have the same options. Their survival is on the line.

People egging on the Palestinians to do more violence are just getting Palestinians killed. These backwards medieval notions that it's like the crusades and Israel will just go away is just getting people killed and accomplishing nothing else. It's this "River to the Sea" bullshit that's causing women and children to get killed in the crossfire between psychopaths and a modern military. As it goes on Palestinians get less and less. But the asshole oil-rich Arabs that fund them and the psychos in Iran that arm them don't give a shit. Palestinians are just being used as cannon fodder to make wealthy Arabs not feel completely humiliated over all the wars they lost against Israel.