nir.eth 🌿🟣🐦☁️
@nir
I served in the IDF in the last military ground operation in Gaza and led a squadron in the West Bank. AMA
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Aaina
@aaina
why hasn’t a two state solution worked? what’s the single highest leverage thing Israel could do as a state today to solve this for the future?
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nir.eth 🌿🟣🐦☁️
@nir
Two state solution hasn’t worked for a ton of reasons but main ones might be that West Bank is too strategically/religiously important for Israel to un-occupy w/o guaranteed peace (like we did with Gaza) and Gaza isn’t large enough to be a country (resource-wise).
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Aaina
@aaina
why do many people (including Israelis) call Gaza an open-air prison, while others say that’s absolutely not the case? what’s the point of interpretation here that is so divergent?
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nir.eth 🌿🟣🐦☁️
@nir
Difficult one to tackle but some points of interpretation: Gazans can all leave if they want, just not to Israel and they can’t come back which is complicated Egypt also has a border with Gaza, dislikes them, rarely gives aid and no water/electricity, no one talks about this
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Aaina
@aaina
what do you mean they can’t come back? would it be better if there was a more open border between the areas or is that too unsafe because of Hamas?
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nir.eth 🌿🟣🐦☁️
@nir
Like the Palestinians displaced in 48 and 67, assuming they fled to Egypt, they won’t be able to return to Gaza or Israel ever. Besides disliking them this is one of the reasons Egypt won’t take them and why Hamas doesn’t want them to leave: to keep the Palestinian demographic up Also why Israel wants them to
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