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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
Your whole premise is that every Palestinian is a terrorist, and therefore every Palestinian, including children who in my belief are born innocent, deserve to be treated like a terrorist.
Welcome to eternal conflict, I guess?
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My premise isn't that at all. There are, however, enough Palestinians that are terrorists that there is a genuine threat to Israel. The geography works against peace, unfortunately. As stated, the majority of Israelis live in the small strips of land where Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are located. this means that the West Bank will only ever be a few metres away.
If you have a widely supported organization, like Hamas, with billions of dollars of weapons dedicated to Israel's destruction, Israelis aren't going to be too eager to allow that organization to operate just outside of Tel Aviv/Jerusalem.
Your premise is based upon:
1. A downplaying of this risk; and
2. This idea that Israel is guilty by just existing and should, therefore, have to tolerate a high degree of terrorist attacks against them.
There constant lip service as to how bad Hamas is, but no acknowledgement that Israel has to deal with that risk or acceptable plan to deal with that risk.
And if October 7 doesn't illustrate exactly what Hamas' plans are, then what does? What does Israel do if its 10,000 Hamas operatives pouring into Tel Aviv or Jerusalem? And yes, that is a true possibility without security measures.