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Rhea said:
Retaliation, payback, vengeance, collective punishment, kill one of ours, we’ll kill twenty of yours.

What a horrible, horrible way to live.
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Well, Hezbollah attacks Israel every single day. They started the war against Israel on October 8. They've killed many civilians including 8 children playing soccer recently. I'd recommend to Hezbollah to stop their attacks on Israel and maybe Israel will stop attacking them. If the war continues, it will be far far worse for Lebanese civilians.
 
Don't worry I'm sure once every last Gazan is dead, the Muslim world will be scared and never attack Israel again. Peace forevermore, that's what genocide is all about.
 
Harry Bosch said:
Rhea said:
Retaliation, payback, vengeance, collective punishment, kill one of ours, we’ll kill twenty of yours.

What a horrible, horrible way to live.
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Well, Hezbollah attacks Israel every single day. They started the war against Israel on October 8. They've killed many civilians including 8 children playing soccer recently. I'd recommend to Hezbollah to stop their attacks on Israel and maybe Israel will stop attacking them. If the war continues, it will be far far worse for Lebanese civilians.
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It's unlikely that a mere ceasefire will resolve the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese people, especially with the Shia Muslims in the south of Lebanon in the Shebaa Farms area and the villages that were under Occupation in the 1980s-1990s. Israel might form an alliance with one of the factions in Lebanon to control the others but that strategy hasn't paid off in the past.

And besides that, Israel has a terrible reputation among the Lebanese. They have good reason to believe Israel doesn't give a flying frack whether it kills militants or civilians with pager bombs, cluster bombs, blowing up bridges and other infrastructure, etc. And they have good reason to believe the current Israeli government wants more Zionist colonization of Lebanese territory.

Honestly, I think the only way Israel can have peace is to declare its final borders, treat everyone inside them with respect and fairness regardless of race/religion/ethnic heritage, and to forge mutually beneficial relations with its neighbors. That might not be sufficient, but IMO it's necessary.
 
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I listened to an old interview on NPR with Jimmy Carter about his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. He was quite direct and blunt in the interview. Certainly not anti Israel, but highly criticall of Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid

The book is primarily based on talks, hosted by Carter during his presidency, between Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt that led to the Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
In this book Carter argues that Israel's continued control and construction of settlements have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Middle East.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid#cite_note-chap17-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a> That perspective, coupled with the use of the word Apartheid in the titular phrase Peace Not Apartheid, and what critics said were errors and misstatements in the book, sparked controversy. Carter has defended his book and countered that response to it "in the real world…has been overwhelmingly positive."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid#cite_note-latimes-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a>
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"Some major points"​


In his op-ed "Reiterating the Keys to Peace", published in The Boston Globe on 20 December 2006, Carter summarizes "ome major points in the book":


  • Multiple deaths of innocent civilians have occurred on both sides, and this violence and all terrorism must cease
  • For 39 years, Israel has occupied Palestinian land, and has confiscated and colonized hundreds of choice sites
  • Often excluded from their former homes, land, and places of worship, protesting Palestinians have been severely dominated and oppressed. There is forced segregation between Israeli settlers and Palestine's citizens, with a complex pass system required for Arabs to traverse Israel's multiple checkpoints
  • An enormous wall snakes through populated areas of what is left of the West Bank, constructed on wide swaths of bulldozed trees and property of Arab families, obviously designed to acquire more territory and to protect the Israeli colonies already built. (Hamas declared a unilateral cease-fire in August 2004 as its candidates sought local and then national offices, which they claim is the reason for reductions in casualties to Israeli citizens.)
  • Combined with this wall, Israeli control of the Jordan River Valley will completely enclose Palestinians in their shrunken and divided territory. Gaza is surrounded by a similar barrier with only two openings, still controlled by Israel. The crowded citizens have no free access to the outside world by air, sea, or land
  • The Palestinian people are now being deprived of the necessities of life by economic restrictions imposed on them by Israel and the United States because 42 percent voted for Hamas candidates in this year's election. Teachers, nurses, policemen, firemen and other employees cannot be paid, and the UN has reported food supplies in Gaza equivalent to those among the poorest families in sub-Sahara Africa, with half the families surviving on one meal a day
  • Mahmoud Abbas, first as prime minister and now as president of the Palestinian National Authority and leader of the PLO, has sought to negotiate with Israel for almost six years, without success. Hamas leaders support such negotiations, promising to accept the results if approved by a Palestinian referendum
  • UN Resolutions, the Camp David Accords of 1978, the Oslo Agreement of 1993, official US Policy, and the International Roadmap for Peace are all based on the premise that Israel withdraw from occupied territories. Also, Palestinians must accept the same commitment made by the 23 Arab nations in 2002: to recognize Israel's right to live in peace within its legal borders. These are the two keys to peace<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid#cite_note-reiterating-8"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a>
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