Houses can be rebuilt.

Getting different perspectives is very valuable for sure. You learn which inconvenient facts are left out by each side.

That would be a comparable attack, yes of course. However Hezbollah doesn’t possess such sophisticated capabilities.

As far as collateral damage and civilian deaths the attack on Hezbollah seems to have been exceptionally good. Making a personal device explode is one of the most targeted ways you can conduct an attack.

According to the world democracy index Israel is at 7.8, same as the USA. Palestine is listed as 3.5.

So you want the violent destruction of Israel, as far as I understand. Israel, the only Jewish state in the world. A safe haven for Jews persecuted all over the world. A state that was established by the right to self determination of the Jewish people.

You place your hope in the US stopping the support of Israel, a highly unlikely event. The US only became a major supporter of Israel during the Yom Kippur war in 1973. Before that they bought their arms and received nuclear technology from France.

Even if let’s say the USA stops all arms sales to Israel. They would be able to adapt. Today Israel has an extremely good relationship with India. Israeli technology plus Indian manufacturing would enable Israel to do quite well. The relationship with Arab neighbors has improved significantly as well, as they recognize Iran as the true danger to the region’s peace and stability.

The US would lose Israel’s exceptional intelligence skills in the region. That’s not in their interest.

Fever dreams like yours to throw the Jews into the sea have fueled this conflict ever since it heated up in the 1920s.

Millions of Gazans were expelled from Gaza into Gaza apparently.

How dare the Jewish people try to build a safe home for themselves after centuries of persecution and oppression.

At the beginning Zionism was peacefully immigrating and buying land and building kibbutz. Violence was mostly self defense of their communities. There were intense diplomatic efforts to allow peaceful establishment of a state as well. We are here because Arabs didn’t accept Jewish immigrants and refugees as their neighbors. Until today accepting the existence of Israel as a neighbor is anathema to most.

Yes, there are expansionist Zionists, but they only gained prominence and power after decades of Arab intransigence and insistence on war.

What are you referring to when you say “illegal occupation”? It’s a very nebulous term on purpose. Some use it to refer to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. For others is refers to all of Israel. Being “against illegal occupation” unites those who want to kill all Jews with those who want two democratic states. Be careful who you ally with.

That would be nice, but is a far way off.

https://alandforall.org is an interesting idea towards peaceful coexistence.

At the moment you have a democracy in Israel, an authoritarian police state in the PA controlled West Bank, and an Islamist regime in Gaza.

Now you’re just making things up.

The intensity of combat operations has calmed down considerably over time.

In Gaza there are only temporary evacuations of civilians from dangerous areas. This is not only legal but required under international humanitarian law.

Gazans are not expelled from their land. Quite the opposite, they aren’t allowed to leave the Gaza strip, besides a small fraction.

If you call for the destruction of the Chinese state, and the displacement of its Chinese citizens, then that’s racist.

The OP is not a reasoned criticism, but antisemitic propaganda and hateful conspiracy peddling.

Would you be okay with a two state solution? Then you’re not really anti-Zionist. Zionism is simply Jewish nationalism, the right of self determination for the Jewish people in the form of a democratic state. You can be Zionist and be against occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

If you only hate Israel, but no other nation states, it makes you racist.

Criticism is fine. Fuck Bibi for sure and the war.

You can criticize Israel’s policies just fine without descending into antisemitism. Many pro Palestinians don’t understand or don’t care about the difference. That means their advocacy descends into just hate for everything Israeli.

If Israel really wanted to commit a genocide, bombed indiscriminately, or killed everyone on sight, there would be millions of dead today. Remember that armed militants from Gaza managed to kill more than 1000 Israelis in one day with mostly small arms.

About 40 000 Gazans were killed during this war, that’s now 11 months old. Israel has a far stronger military and managed to destroy a large fraction of the buildings in Gaza. The number of deaths is low compared to the overall destruction and the power disparity. This is a war in a dense urban environment against an incredibly deeply entrenched enemy.

The number of people who starved to death less than ten afaik, most of them had preexisting health conditions. There’s enough food getting in overall, but distribution inside Gaza is difficult.

That said. This war should end. A two state solution like the Olmert offer is a viable path to end the occupation of the West Bank and achieve freedom for Palestinians.

Only Hezbollah pagers exploded.

Hezbollah wants all of Israel destroyed. Are you telling Israel to just kill themselves?

Israel didn’t target civilian areas in Beirut. They targeted members of Hezbollah, a terrorist militia, that has attacked Israel non stop since October 7th 2023.

People hate Israel and call everything they do a warcrime, regardless of facts.

If those iPhones had only been distributed to right wing terrorist groups, then you have an apt comparison.