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In reply to the discussion: No longer defending Israel [View all]Martin Eden
(12,894 posts)It is deliberate ethic cleansing.
The Netanyahu government has explicitly rejected any two state solution. Given their relentless expansion of West Bank settlements and current actions in Gaza, their long term goal of a Greater Israel ecompassing all the land is increasingly apparent.
The problem is that too many Palestinians reside within the borders, with a potentially growing demographic that could pose a threat to the Jewish state. Whether by mortality or diaspora, that population must be reduced. Famine is part of that strategy. The deady attack targeting the World Kitchen convoy has halted food deliveries.
Millenia of conflicts have been fought for control of this land. In the wake of their own diaspora and Holocaust, the long term survival of a nation state for the Jewish people is, I believe, at the core of what we're seeing now.
I'm not trying to justify anything, or to argue the current strategy is the best way to achieve the long term goal.
I'm just expressing my understanding of the situation.