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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nir.eth 🌿🟣🐦☁️
@nir
Gaza is autonomous internally and lots of the poverty isn’t really Israel’s fault. Hamas destroyed factories farms and plants we left them in 05, used concrete to build tunnels instead of streets until we blocked. Their leaders are billionaires and syphon most funds out of Gaza
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Aaina
@aaina
I mean this sounds like the age old dynamic with most impoverished and war torn places around the world. the leaders are billionaires and the people are starving and killing each other in non-stop conditions of violence. So it seems that Palestinian civilians are being subjugated by Hamas and persecuted by Israel.
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nir.eth 🌿🟣🐦☁️
@nir
Totally. Sadly, also much of the Arab world uses them as pawns. I truly think that bc Israel isn’t in that situation is one reason why people hold it so responsible vs Egypt, take this conflict more seriously than Arab-to-Arab ones (see Lebanese 20 year civil war over religion, massive persecution of Palestinians)
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