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God, I feel sick: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9xkx7vnmxo

This is the holocaust all over again. This time done by Jews.

Oh, but you who philosophize, disgrace and criticize all fears
Bury the rag deep in your face for now's the time for your tears

Israel Palestine is the most potent geopolitical evidence for Larkin's immortal insight:

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself


As the Germans did to the Jews, so the Jews are doing to the Palestinians. With the added complication that, given the chance, we all know that many many Gazans - far too many - would do exactly the same to every Jew they could find

There is no solution other than the one proposed by - ironically - Trump. Move the Gazans away and stuff their mouths with gold

Well, firstly it's not really a solution. Because giving $5,000 a person doesn't solve the issue that there's nowhere obvious else for them to go. Unless Israel is planning on letting them go to the West Bank.

Which I'm guessing they aren't that keen on.

And which brings us to the other problem. What about the West Bank? Every day - as you know from your travels there - the Israelis take control of more of the territory, and each day they make the lives of Palestinians there a little bit worse.

At some point, the Palestinians will have been resrticted to an area, say, the size of Gaza. And will not doubt act out. As you would do in that scenario. And then are we to sanction another bit of ethnic cleansing?

The only answer, or recourse, at this point is international isolation and sanctions, similar to the apartheid era's, on Netanyahu's government.

The Israelis don't give a fuck. They've been through an actual Holocaust. International anger and being-banned-from-rugby is not gonna cut it

Less than 1% holocaust survivors in Israel

There's more holocaust victims in Gaza than survivors in Israel.

Big polling report on Israelis' views of the possibility of peace, what to do with Gaza, etc.: https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/06/pg_2025.06.03_israel_report.pdf

Interesting reading. Even now only 50% of Israelis think a 2 state solution impossible.

If only there'd been a party on the other side interested in a two state solution. Of course that wouldn't have satisfied their enablers in the Soviet Union, Tehran and Doha of course.

God, I feel sick: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9xkx7vnmxo

This is the holocaust all over again. This time done by Jews.

Oh, but you who philosophize, disgrace and criticize all fears
Bury the rag deep in your face for now's the time for your tears

Israel Palestine is the most potent geopolitical evidence for Larkin's immortal insight:

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself


As the Germans did to the Jews, so the Jews are doing to the Palestinians. With the added complication that, given the chance, we all know that many many Gazans - far too many - would do exactly the same to every Jew they could find

There is no solution other than the one proposed by - ironically - Trump. Move the Gazans away and stuff their mouths with gold

Well, firstly it's not really a solution. Because giving $5,000 a person doesn't solve the issue that there's nowhere obvious else for them to go. Unless Israel is planning on letting them go to the West Bank.

Which I'm guessing they aren't that keen on.

And which brings us to the other problem. What about the West Bank? Every day - as you know from your travels there - the Israelis take control of more of the territory, and each day they make the lives of Palestinians there a little bit worse.

At some point, the Palestinians will have been resrticted to an area, say, the size of Gaza. And will not doubt act out. As you would do in that scenario. And then are we to sanction another bit of ethnic cleansing?

The only answer, or recourse, at this point is international isolation and sanctions, similar to the apartheid era's, on Netanyahu's government.

The Israelis don't give a fuck. They've been through an actual Holocaust. International anger and being-banned-from-rugby is not gonna cut it

Less than 1% holocaust survivors in Israel

God, I feel sick: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9xkx7vnmxo

This is the holocaust all over again. This time done by Jews.

Oh, but you who philosophize, disgrace and criticize all fears
Bury the rag deep in your face for now's the time for your tears

It's horrendous. The Israelis have slaughtered more civilians in Gaza in two years than the Nazis killed in Bergen Belsen in four. And we're still listening to the tape of Richard Attenborough's heartbreaking broadcast 80 years on.

If you want a serious debate, rather than a rant - what do you honestly think the Gazans would do to Israeli Jews, given the chance?

And how do you see this being solved? What should Israel do, to bring this to a humane resolution?

Pretty sure a shitload more Gazans are filled with genocidal rage towards Israelis than there were two years ago, so that’s worked out well.

Well quite. It's getting worse. If I was a young Gazan, I would be filled with anti-Semitic hatred and I would want to slaughter every Jew I could find. Anywhere on earth. And I would be filled with righteous anger, too, not ashamed of my blood-lust

Where does that get us?

There is no coming back from the levels of hatred now evidenced - on both sides - in this tedious tedious 80 year old conflict

So what is the solution? The two state answer is over. It's done. It's never coming back. Israel will not tolerate Palestinians living nearby. Meanwhile Palestinians are filled with - entirely justifiable - anti-Semitic rage

The only solution is to pay off the Palestinians. Give them all condos in Egypt or Indonesia, anything. Give them £1m each. They are never going "home" to Palestine, the only way that happens is if Iran manages to nuke Israel, which means they can't go home because it will be an irradiated wasteland for 1000 years

Trump is right