Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Israel-Hamas at war: Israel's Ambassador to the UK" video.
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I would say that out of the various terms for types of captivity, calling gaza a mostly closed ghetto would be most accurate. meanwhile west bank palestinian habitation centers form a normally mostly internally open and somewhat externally open ghetto network, while the israeli encroachment between them is just unofficial fully israeli territory partially beyond the walls. palestinian habitation in israel is mostly restricted to segregated neighbourhoods, or what people nowadays call ghettos in america and europe - a historically illiterate and insensitive misapplication of the term, which would be better reserved for situations resembling medieval and third reich jewish ghettos, which form the long original history of the term.
concentration camps always have guards within, and prisons almost always do, too - with few exceptions where either successful prison revolts have established something resembling a ghetto system (like the san pedro and palmasola prisons in bolivia), or where prisons have become so horrendously overcrowded with largely already previously extremely violent gang members that guards have withdrawn and keep inmates very much like dangerous animals, doing little more than delivering supplies and removing corpses.
by contrast, third reich ghettos always had jewish ghetto police working inside, more or less reliably under nazi command. and I believe medieval ghettos also would have had (probably much more independent) community policing, since mutual distrust and disgust between christians and jews would have made both avoid contact, and made attempted impositions of control within the ghetto impractically difficult. sort of like the difficulties in today's attempts to better integrate into society europe's untouchables, the romani people.
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@nighttrain1236 deescalate, not escalate. as we expect from everybody else. israel can easily prevent such attacks by simply manning the gazan border to a remotely reasonable degree. and israel's iron dome supply is entirely gifted by america as needed. hamas can do almost nothing to israel if they're not actively permitted.
one might want to ask netanyahu, and the head of the israeli armed forces, and the commander of the gaza division (none of which have resigned) why there appears to have been hardly any troop presence, and why it took six hours to even initiate a major counterattack.
if you take the number of active duty israeli military personnel, spread all those troops out evenly over israel and its occupied territories, and go with the smaller end of the variations of maps showing territory invaded by hamas (about equal to the territory of gaza), then the number of troops hamas would have run into is around 2200. now, many of them are not combat troops, or not ground forces, but I'm sure you would agree that the gazan border was already understood to warrant a more concentrated troop deployment than the average location in israel, would you not? I haven't found a more specific claim for that unit size or for the IDF's unit sizes, but the section of the IDF ground forces responsible for gaza is called the gaza division, and apparently divisions by definition range from 5000 to >20,000 soldiers. do you feel like what you saw on the day of the hamassacre was hamas running into 2200, 5000, or 20,000 soldiers who were already there? I know I didn't.
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@zerj2024 egypt has been my personal least favourite dictatorship since the gulf arab/US/israel-supported counterrevolutionary coup and the rabaa massacre in 2013, the deadliest attack on peaceful protesters since at least beijing 1989 (it cleared a million people off the streets in one night by killing probably a thousand or more). but at the moment, egypt is just an extremely ugly red herring, since it's functioning as israel's enforcer. or like a violently depressurized deep sea fish like a blobfish, or one of those anglerfish with the long needle teeth, like a really rotten one with multiple different species of maggots and flies on it, with the kind of smell that makes you freeze in indecisiveness about the need to get rid of it and the aversion to getting close enough to do that. plus it has a very amusing reputation as one of the worst countries to visit as a tourist, because you get constantly harassed or terrorised by the world's rudest and scummiest unreasonable demands for money (I found that out when I once googled a bit about whether I'm alone in my hatred for egypt). xD
egypt has been the arab state with the friendliest relations with israel since it became the first one to recognise its statehood. by far the biggest internal enemy of egypt's military dictatorship is the muslim brotherhood, hamas is the palestinian branch of the muslim brotherhood, and egypt's government is correspondingly opposed to supporting hamas or allowing gazans to enter egypt and bring with them a new wave of islamist insurgency in the sinai. and egypt is receiving, as part of its quasi-alliance arrangement with israel, huge amounts of both gifted and sold weapons from western states like the US and germany (germany's biggest arms buyer ahead of saudi arabia and the UAE for several of the years since universal recognition of the junta in 2014 after their "election").
oh, and israel still had to bomb the vicinity of the rafah crossing as warning shots multiple times to make egypt close it initially during the current israeli assault.
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