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  • Tbh, I've thought about it, who hasn't. But don't think I have the money to run a campaign. It should be illegal to use your own funds to campaign, let people just use an amount of public funds for the purpose and that's it, we all get the same "free speech" instead of some having more "free speech" than others depending on their wallet size. (Fuck Citizens United)

  • Egypt is offering aid. Israel isn't happy with that, though.

    Presumably, they'd finally have control over their own water, electricity, trash, etc. And international recognition would help them avoid Israel just taking over more land like they have in the past and are currently doing in the West Bank. But it's complicated. Idk even know if I'm for a one-state or two-state solution. I feel like I keep bouncing between them, because you're right, there's still some problems with the two-state solution.

    It would be better if they could all share the land in peace, without the settler colonialism. Maybe with some Constitutional guarantee of rights so the more numerous Palestinian population didn't immediately use their votes to fuck over the Jewish population there as soon as they got the right to vote. But idk, I'm not some doctorate in international and Middle-Eastern relations, I'm just a person who doesn't like civilian deaths and wants to see it all stop 😔

  • I'm addition to all the good info buzziebee gave, It's too late with Hamas having control of Gaza now. They're affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt doesn't want those extremists in their country, they've already had issues with them before so I'm pretty sure the MB is illegal in there now.

  • Right? We could split them up more, basically make the entire population a refugee diaspora split among various Arab countries, but then that means the Jewish people just did to another people what they claim was bad for them. Plus, isn't forcing migration is basically genocide? We can't condemn Stalin for doing the same thing a country we support is doing.

  • That's because Egypt isn't the one who kicked them out of their homes and spread into more land, kickstarting the crisis in the first place.

    They definitely should accept more than they have, but we can't blame Egypt for not wanting literally millions of refugees. No country would want that. Otherwise you end up like Palestine when the Israelis came in, or the Native Americans when British colonists come in.

  • Innocent people always suffer in war, maybe provoking an unwinnable one has consequences for others in your nation. Maybe some country shouldn't invade its neighbor, slaughter and kidnap its civilians to avoid such retribution.

    I honestly couldn't tell if you were talking about Israel or Palestine here lol.

  • I mean, they kind of left Gaza. They still send soldiers in there all the time, they still control most of its borders, it's water, electricity, trash, etc, and they cut those things off all the time. It's basically an open air prison.

    Also, Israel has killed off all higher Hamas members before so that won't work. And Bibi supported Hamas to prevent a two state solution before so doubt he wants them united under one government. He just wants to do a genocide now, let's be honest.

    As for possible solutions, there's too much emnity between Israel and Palestine, there probably needs to be a third party at this point, even though one caused the problem in the first place lol. Someone that's not the US or UK, since Israel is basically their puppet state and the UK caused the initial issues, and not one of the anti-Israel states like Iran. Or maybe it needs to be formed from both groups so that both points of view are represented? Idk. A solution is definitely the hardest part for sure.

  • I will say that staying off FB and Instagram, while it didn't cure me, it did help my mental health a notable amount. I also think going from Reddit to Lemmy has been helping my online addiction and attention span as well. I really do think Reddit and Tik Tok and other infinite short-form content algorithms have been hurting people's attention span. I've been slowly resuming reading books, but for awhile there I stopped, and I used to read a ton of books when I was a kid.

  • No it's not the same because this just happened and is still happening. That's what I'm saying the difference is. While they both matter, there's a big difference between wrongs that were done to your ancestors, which is what they were talking about, and wrongs that are done to you and family you know personally. You don't know really know until you're in that position. So for those tribes that did take up arms, honestly I don't blame them one bit.

    Although obviously I'd probably condemn them if I lived in the same time period and saw them raping people and do the heinous shit Hamas did, from a historical standpoint, I can't judge the natives' armed struggle against the forces of colonialism.