Most Israeli Jews are from the Middle East. The rest are mainly direct descendants from the Europe Holocaust (⅔ of them were rounded up because of their ethnicity and, without provocation, executed — actual genocide by UN definition).
Meanwhile in Australia this week we have Jews being doxxed by Daily Mail.
Occupied is not the same as border control. The control was necessary because the Al Qassam Brigades and Palestinian Intifada Jihad kept attacking Israel with missiles and suicide bombers.
I personally wish that Netanyahu and whoever was in charge of the Defense were punished instead of invading Gaza for retaliation. Sucking up the 1200 slaughtered by the Al Qassam Brigade would have been cheaper with less death for everyone concerned.
From Israel's own self-interest perspective: they have lost 454 soldiers. They have had 148 hostages returned but could have had them all returned (and lost no soldiers) at the start of the war with a swap.
Israel underestimated the extent of the tunnels and the unquestioning support Hamas would get from the Global Left (eg believing the Al Ahli Hospital hoax).
But Hamas (who were as keen for war as Likud) also underestimated: they mistakenly thought the Arab League would join the war like in 1967.
And so the mission creep has gotten us to this situation today. The only realistic way out I see is if Hamas would surrender and the Arab League would occupy and reconstruct. I certainly would not trust Likud and the even more right wing parties in their coalition (who support expansionist terror by settlers in the West Bank).
So you think Israel should have tried a one-state solution? I don't see any Arab governments anywhere in the Middle-East interested in anything other than their own brand of "religious nationalist ethno-state".
But one small such state for Israel is too much? (Which is very much more secular than any Arab state).
There's a lot of "righteous indignation" in this thread.
The ratio of Gazan deaths isn't 50 civilians to 3 militants though. Not even remotely that ratio. You are not discussing in good faith and you avoided answering my question.
Not taking sides here, but here is a great animated history map of the region (although whether the"Kingdom of Israel" existed as a united entity as shown on this map is debated).
Harris said on July 30 that she won’t run for California governor, leaving the door open for a potential 2028 presidential run.
Leaving the door open for her to run again or for someone else? How is being Governor relevant anyhow?