Well it might make perfect sense from their perspective, there might be a million alien species on the galactic council who all agree they don't want to deal with a species that won't purge at least one race.
It's unlikely but possible, we have literally no way of knowing or really guessing anything about how an alien race or empire might think. They might be shocked and confused we don't kill our enemies children, bemused that we ended slavery, disgusted that we don't torture criminals for sport...
An even scarier thought is that we might agree with them in a hundred or thousand years, it seems impossible to imagine but to me it seems impossible to imagine slavery was ever a thing or that they put criminals heads on pikes for everyone to see.
That's such a simplistic view though, how long would you ignore a country firing missiles at you and sneaking in to kill civilians? Israel spent staggering sums on defensive security rather than just carpet bombing and still they find ways to kill Israelies.
And they always will, the leader of Hamas went to Iran again the other day to talk about further support that Iran can give them - they already train Palestinian fighters, supply them with missiles, scuba suits, paragliders, and tunnel making equipment. This isn't just a small city being bullied it's a proxy war, and yeah there are people in Palestine who don't support Hamas but it's not just Israel that's too blame for their bad experience - fundamentalist despots need them to be there suffering and dying so they can have a reason to keep attacking Israel, so they can hold Israel up as a bogeyman to cement their power at home.
This isn't a simple situation, Israel can't just stop fighting and tear down it's walls.
The question you're asking implies a decrease during the ceasefire which is of course a near certainty however in the time scale of the total conflict it's very possible that the total number of civilian casualties will increase.
Hamas will use the time to move troops, stock defences, replenish supplies and plant IEDs - this will prolong the war and make fighting more difficult resulting in more rockets and bombs and thus more potential civilian life loss.
Decisive victory can often be less brutal than lingering conflict, especially with logistical considerations like in Gaza.
Honestly if anyone actually cared about the people there's loads of places that could go, I'm sure Israel would even help fund the building of a city on Saudi Arabia or Iran, plenty of space and cities are getting built in the region all the time. They could all live nice happy lives
But no one will let that happen of course because it's not about the people it's about the land, and not even land with resources - land the people funding all this have no intention of ever visiting, but they don't want Israel to have it.
Ok so the democrats are far right, China is further right and I guess South Korea or somewhere is off the map and out the building.
I really don't think just calling everyone we have a disagreement with right wing as if it's a synonym for evil is an especially useful strategy.
Because like I know it's hard to hear but the Scandinavian countries are pretty shitty too in a lot of ways. UK and most the EU is right of the democrats, even Kier (labour leader) is to the right of Biden.
We're going to have to say Christiania is centrist at this rate.
Yeah and they're all conspiracy theorist anti-liberal accounts, that whole sphere is built on anti-Semitism. Like it takes thirty seconds in a conversation with someone in there's groups to hear that the Jews are using LGBT and anti-racism to destroy Western society, that Jews control the world and they own the world bank which funded COVID to spread communism...
Yes most of them hate Muslims but they think Jews are the cause of all their problems, they think 'the matrix' is a Jewish plot, they think gay and trans people are a Jewish plot, they think George Soros is personally stopping them getting promoted at work and the their ex wife left them because the Rothschild's turned her and the weens against them.
I wrote a long bit explaining what they really mean with reference to Phil Ochs and all the contradictions and contrarianism involved in people who use liberal as a slur, it's not worth it though because the real answer is 'too left = tankie, not left enough = liberal, everyone is bad and should be ignored except for me'
I think a huge part of this is because there has been no real follow up demonstrating the successes of vaccination, I'm sure plenty of studies have been done and everything but no one hears about them - meanwhile antivax are obsessively memeing every possible thing that could help their cause true or not.
And there's endless examples of a small well ordered thing being far more expensive than essentially the same thing less ordered in bigger volume - a room full of carbon dioxide, a bag of coal, a diamond...
Yeah it's so infuriating when people don't acknowledge the very clear reality that if the shoe was on the other foot then the genocide would have happened long ago.
Also this isn't just Palestine it's very clearly a lot of fundamentalist terror groups and countries like Iran. There are very real and scary threats to Israel, Hamas gets huge funding and help from so many places - which they use almost exclusively to build combat tunnels and rockets.
It's horrible for the Palestinian people but Israel isn't the only one making their lives hard, Hamas isn't about helping Palestinians it's about hurting Jews and if their own people dying helps then they're fine with it
Yeah but have you noticed how I keep going back to the subject at hand and reiterating my initial statements but you're actively ignoring all of that and instead choosing to just try and insult me in vague terms?
You obviously realise that I have enough interest in and understanding of transport infrastructure that your emotive and catchy slogan based arguments aren't going to hold water as I can refute them with actual evidence based studies and the work of experts in the field. Possibly you're also aware that my grasp of the importance of such systems in a left wing or socialist state eclipses your rudimentary idealism.
If this was a debate for points and prizes then you'd be making the only sensible move, but we're not here for prizes - we're here to try and broaden understanding of what's needed in a better world and to determine how we can work towards that together for the benefit of all.
So stop being hissy and get back to the important matters, you seem like a good kid with a lot of passion and energy - if that's directed right then you could be a real boon to the movement for a better world. Getting lost in ego and fear of admitting you're wrong isn't going to help anyone though, least of all yourself.
Let's make friends and forget about all the angry stuff you said, and yes I have been mean and rude too and I do apologise very genuinely for that, I just care about this stuff and it gets me caught up when I feel people are making it harder to shill for urban modernisation through trams and track based cargo networks. I don't want to have to be explaining the limitations of mass transit but also I don't want to be part of groups that will make me look foolish and to have to start every argument in favour of trains with 'yes obviously a lot of people who argue for trains are crazy and wrong but...'
The trick diabetics need is to force yourself to regulate insulin. Are they fucking stupid or something? Just digest the sugars like a normal person! I can do it so why can't they? Lazy and feckless!
Well it might make perfect sense from their perspective, there might be a million alien species on the galactic council who all agree they don't want to deal with a species that won't purge at least one race.
It's unlikely but possible, we have literally no way of knowing or really guessing anything about how an alien race or empire might think. They might be shocked and confused we don't kill our enemies children, bemused that we ended slavery, disgusted that we don't torture criminals for sport...
An even scarier thought is that we might agree with them in a hundred or thousand years, it seems impossible to imagine but to me it seems impossible to imagine slavery was ever a thing or that they put criminals heads on pikes for everyone to see.