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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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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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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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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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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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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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On flip side Gaza is the size of Philly and that’s not sustainable for a nation, border is crazy tight with Israel and we’ve bombed the crossings to Egypt in the past, massive surveillance of the gazans by Israel even from outside, I can see why they’re unhappy
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Also tons of Gazans work in Israel or West Bank and had work permits to leave. Israel even eased up on that front, gave out way more permits, which is one of the ways Hamas pulled off their attacks, making it hard to be lenient with them. Our peaceful attempts are used against us
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It seems like a solution that protects the people and targets Hamas is impossible because Hamas is a dictatorship. The only thing I can see is total eradication of Hamas followed by opening the border to make Gaza part of Israel and allow peaceful Palestinians to gain access to Israel’s economy/ education/ housing
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and hope that with education and prosperity, attitudes can change. but even as I say it, that seems impossible too. But without it, even if you kill every Hamas militant a new Hamas will form stronger and angrier than ever. Especially given backing and funding from across the oil wealth of the middle east.
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Totally, and there are already new Hamas’s that have formed (see Lions, Islamic Jihad) To your earlier question but reversed, the single most important thing Palestinians could do is have an Arab spring and democratize themselves for real. 70% of Gazans want the PA to take over from Hamas
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the problem with this is money. Arab Spring failed massively in Egypt after the initial push. How can an impoverished people fight a rich Hamas?
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