Critics say the US rushed to evacuate its citizens in Israel last year. For Lebanon, the response has been much slower.

  • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    4 hours ago

    No, it’s not. Let’s imagine a future world where to settle the conflict Israel agrees to withdraw to the green line, endorse a fully UN recognized and supported independent Palestinian nation, pay reparations to Palestine, aid in its rebuilding if permitted, and sign a 100 year peace treaty with all adjacent nations. Accepting this hypothetical, would Israel be safe? Why or why not?

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 hours ago

      I mean I’m not sure why you only value Israeli security in this arrangement, but presumably yes they would be. At least nobody would be launching rocket attacks.

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 hours ago

      Withdrawing to the Green Line is impossible now with the settlements dividing the West Bank into hundreds of isolated enclaves. You cannot forcibly displace the over half a million settlers.

      This is exactly why multiple Israeli Historians have discussed how the realities of the Apartheid and Settlements have made any actual Two-State solution not viable. If you read any of those three links, they discuss exactly that.

      Zionism, with its Settler Colonialism for an Ethnostate, is incompatible with coexistance and equality.

        • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          1 hour ago

          You’re avoiding the reality of the situation. I don’t support the existence of any Ethnostate. In a Secular Bi-National One State, yes. You’re underlying assumption that all this violent resistance comes from Antisemitism instead of Anti-zionism, is wrong.

            • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 hour ago

              It’s very obvious what you are trying to get at. That doesn’t make it the reality.

              Adi Callai, an Israeli, does a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized (see 29:01) by Zionism during its history.