commonrail:
Must admit,I didn’t know much about the situation…but as more info comes onto my feeds etc i’m not at all easy,about supporting Israel and their doings
It seems to me,like the Palestinians have had the [zb] end of the stick.
That’s what it is to be beaten in the past politically.
If the former Palestinians wanted to “Win the Peace” - all they had to ever do is conform with the new, ruling Israeli government taking over from 1948 onwards, where they got installed with the “Right to Remain” in the newly- created state.
Imagine in THIS country if we extended citizenship to people from all corners of the UK, and then announced that “Acts against the country” FROM such people - resulted in anything but the usual punishments for such actions?
There’s no “Scottish Liberation Front” nor “Welsh Freedom Fighters” nor “Kernow Seperatists” for a reason…
“Palestine” was never a “Religion” nor a “Race” - and it hasn’t been a country since 1948. Accept that, and future peace is assured that ALL benefit from.
I’d certainly hate it if our Highlander Regiment (for example) were to one day get a “General Order 66” otherwise! It’s unthinkable the damage they could do in this country!
Scotland has been part of the UK for more than 400 years. Scottish people get all the upsides of being “British”, whilst we Sassenachs only get some of the Privileges of having Scotland as a “United Neighbor”.
That’s a pretty good deal for the Scots, whom, after all - have ruled us with both Scottish Prime Ministers and even a dynasty of Kings over the 4 centuries since…
The best way to achieve peace then - is to stop fighting the state that has absorbed your own, and start to live WITH that.
The “Rougher” way to achieve peace otherwise - is to go to war with those other countries in the world - that support the terrorists attacking YOUR country.
Just as I don’t believe for a minute that the West is about to start a war vs Iran, Syria, Russia, and other countries that the west is currently hostile to… I don’t believe those same foes - are about to openly attack the West because Israel happens to wipe out Hamas once and for all in Gaza “Collateral damage be damned” - like the Indian/Sri Lanka coalition did to the Tamil Tigers in 2009.
I don’t recall the West putting boots on the ground for EITHER side there, so as such - the west should stay out of what becomes “History” for India and Sri Lanka - and pretty much no one else, because the enemy was utterly defeated.
I predict the same outcome for Gaza: Hamas will be massacred, thousands of bystanding citizens who “couldn’t get out of dodge” will end up being killed as collateral damage.
The world will criticize Israel for such a heavy-handed response, but will not go to war over it, especially WWIII over it.
We had 4 years of relative peace under Trump, and I suspect a lot of peace-loving American voters who didn’t support Trump first time around - will back him second time around - to achieve that now-nostalgic ideal “Peace in the Middle East”.
That “Peace” starts when the wars and in-fighting STOP.
Let’s see what happens now that we have a Trumper by the name of Mike Johnson as Speaker of US Congress…
I suspect the Republicans will divert “Aid” from Ukraine to Israel to bring matters to a speedier conclusion than would occur without such intervention by the US…
In both cases, the two wars would be shortened - to the detriment of both Ukraine and Gaza… BUT that is what happens when you start wars you cannot finish without losing them!
I predict that Ukraine will end up retaining land west of the Niper river, including Kiev, and Gaza will be dissolved, with the area re-named as “Goshen” - partitioned between Israel and Egypt.
We cannot afford any other solution with our Western economies on the brink of collapse to such an extent that the new power shift in the world - will be to the East - like it or not.
As western citizens, it is ultimately upto Voters to decide if we support our governments of both sides - donking our reducing wealth away on “Foreign Adventures” that we can no longer afford to support.
As such, I support the upcoming Republican notion that Ukraine and Gaza be cut loose…
Once done, I think you’ll find the Eastern/BRICs bond-buying “Strike” currently ongoing - will quickly come to an end, and we’ll all be keeping our houses for starters as a “Benefit” of such a political foreign policy capitulation.