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Their distro has been a disaster, I don't need to have a solution in hand to point it out.
I think the Israelis should step away and not bother trying to help the citizens of Gaza. Gaza is not their responsibility. Israel left Gaza to the Palestinians over 20 years ago and this is what they have done with it. First they elected Hamas to govern them and the "constitution" they signed up for specified killing all the Jews. Hamas destroyed the businesses and housing that the Israeli settlers had created and when they needed more money, dug up the water pipes to make rockets. So, even though Gaza is connected to the Israeli water system, water is hard to come by because Hamas has destroyed the distribution network.

Let Hamas be solely responsible for distributing the aid. That way the citizens will die sooner from starvation and at some point the only people left alive will be only Hamas. Some agency brings the goods to a border station and transfers the load to a different truck and the driver goes away. All the west does is keep track of how much food and medicine they dropped off so Hamas can't lie about it as they forcibly starve their own population. How's that for a solution?
 
While I see doing so as bad PR for the Israelis, Pat is right that Gaza citizens who won't evacuate the area really are not the IDF's problem. After a few warnings, if you don't leave a known war zone about to be targeted, you must have a death wish or perhaps a martyr complex.
 
While I see doing so as bad PR for the Israelis, Pat is right that Gaza citizens who won't evacuate the area really are not the IDF's problem. After a few warnings, if you don't leave a known war zone about to be targeted, you must have a death wish or perhaps a martyr complex.
Well sure, in a situation with refusal to evacuate, if given time to do so - but it's kind of a damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Your choices are to stay home and hope you stay lucky, or venture out into an unknown with whatever you can carry on your donkey's back and not knowing if there will be food or medicine where you are going - Imagine you just walked out of your house to a new part of town. No food, no supplies? ? I mean you make it sound so easy, like "Just move". These people aren't exactly in a situation where they can just whip out the credit card and rent a truck and rent a new place.
 
Well sure, in a situation with refusal to evacuate, if given time to do so - but it's kind of a damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Your choices are to stay home and hope you stay lucky, or venture out into an unknown with whatever you can carry on your donkey's back and not knowing if there will be food or medicine where you are going - Imagine you just walked out of your house to a new part of town. No food, no supplies? ? I mean you make it sound so easy, like "Just move". These people aren't exactly in a situation where they can just whip out the credit card and rent a truck and rent a new place.
It is up to the Palestinians to make the decision to reject Hamas, to release the hostages, and to surrender. They started the conflict, now they have the opportunity to rectify that mistake and are rejecting it. It seems that they prefer endless conflict and martyrdom (with never ending images of sacrificial dead babies). The Palestinians, had they been interested in peace, could have turned Gaza into something similar to Singapore.

PS: It appears that none of the Arab countries want to take in Palestinian refugees to end this humanitarian crises. As a side note, Jordan in 1971 had a bloody civil war to expel Palestinians from Jordan. Unfortunately they went to Lebanon, founded Hezbollah and created civil war there.
 
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I am quite sure you do!
But you don't understand why because you think the Israelis are the bad guys because the NYT prints pictures of starving children who are not starving at all but in fact suffering from a disease. And then when called out on it buries the retraction on page 99999.

Please, read some history. What other attacked country has ever tried to feed and care for the citizens of their attacker and Israel gets nothing but grief for doing it?
 
But you don't understand why because you think the Israelis are the bad guys because the NYT prints pictures of starving children who are not starving at all but in fact suffering from a disease. And then when called out on it buries the retraction on page 99999.

Please, read some history. What other attacked country has ever tried to feed and care for the citizens of their attacker and Israel gets nothing but grief for doing it?
Never said the Israelis were the bad guys as if only them. But you still have to do what's right and razing the entire community isn't right, nor forcing 2 MM people into starvation just to get a few.
 
@Isaac: The Palestinian case is an example of selective morality, where the Palestinians are "supported" based on antisemitism. The world has not been concerned about being morally "right" when Israel can't be blamed. Again, the Palestinians started the conflict and committed war crimes; many people apparently have amnesia concerning that.
 
@Isaac: The Palestinian case is an example of selective morality
I agree there is that going on as well, and it's a shame we aren't equally outraged by what happens in Africa and other conflicts.
Perhaps the difference is that in Africa we have virtually no chance of influencing the outcome (short of boots on the ground, anyway) whereas with Israel, a few words one way or the other can make them be a bit more careful in other words we have influence in that situation
 
While I see doing so as bad PR for the Israelis, Pat is right that Gaza citizens who won't evacuate the area really are not the IDF's problem. After a few warnings, if you don't leave a known war zone about to be targeted, you must have a death wish or perhaps a martyr complex.
The reason the Israelis try to save the citizens, including sending them warnings of impending bombing is because Hamas is actually keeping them hostage. They literally cannot evacuate the targeted area.
The Palestinians, had they been interested in peace, could have turned Gaza into something similar to Singapore.
The world certainly gave them billions with which to do it. What did Hamas (the ruling government) do instead? They stole the aid and sold it to the citizens and spent the money on bombs they used to kill Israeli citizens. Then they destroyed functioning businesses and homes that the Israelis were forced to abandon when the Israelis withdrew in 2004 and when they needed even more money, they tore up the water pipes to use them to build makeshift rockets.

The citizens of Gaza are between a rock and a hard place. They made their bed and there is no way out for them unless they abandon Hamas. No Arab country will take them in as refugees. All the neighboring countries have learned their lesson. They tried to take over Jordan after they left Israel willingly in 1948 and were expelled so they took over Lebanon and turned it from a peaceful free Christian country to a Muslim country controlled by Hezbollah. Everyone knows that the hatred the Palestinians are raised with does not translate well into peaceful living in a host country. The Israelis are doing their best to try to save them but the Israelis are not going going to simply lie down and die. They will fight to the death to keep their homeland.
 
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many people apparently have amnesia concerning that.
Antisemitism is at an all time high. It is fostered in our colleges and supported all over the world. For the sake of the Oppressor/Oppressed narrative, the Jews seem to be "white" and the oppressors and so are always wrong.
 

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