Comments by "" (@jmhorange) on "Friedman: Netanyahu is no longer at the wheel | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer" video.
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Feels like Friedman is from December 2023. Netanyahu is the problem? Try the Israeli government. Still too much focus on Hamas. "They built tunnels that they could have used to protect civilians, they didn't prepare the population or give them warning about the terrorist attack. Hamas Hamas Hamas, it's all their fault." The Israeli government knew all this when they decided to cynically help keep a terrorist group in power to prevent a 2 state solution. And look how that blew up in their face. Moreover, unlike Israel, we have never had any relationship with Hamas, because they are a terrorist group, the question is what is Israel going to do to end this war?
Both Hamas and the entire Israeli government need to go. Israel a so called democracy, can't even bother to stop the illegal settlements in the West Bank to not anger Palestinians during the war. You know, try to win hearts and minds. The Palestinian and Israeli people deserve better. And the US needs to start thinking about sanctions, and internationally, possibly a peace keeping force over Israel, Gaza and the West Bank to allow for a 1 state solution with Jewish and Palestinians as equal citizens.
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@RyanSemmel77 Not really, it's clear Israeli citizens are radicalized just like Palestinians under Hamas. The difference is, in no small part due to Israel propping up Hamas, there's no possibility that a genocide can occur against Israelis because no matter how much Palestinians hate Israelis, they don't have a country to carry it out, but because Israel is a country, a genocide can occur against the Palestinians.
I don't blame the Israeli people though. I blame the Israeli government for radicalizing them. In any other situation a government that propped up a terrorist group and then had a terrorist attack would collapse. But because the Israeli government has convinced its people over years that Palestinians aren't people, that they must be destroyed at all cost, the government still stands because Israelis really want this war. The Israeli government needs to go, they had more than enough chances to lead their people toward peace, instead they chose to feed their people hatred and now look at the mess they are in. The Israeli government is a threat to Palestinians and Israelis. You can blame Hamas, but who helped keep Hamas in power for 2 decades? The Israeli government, all roads lead back to them.
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@RyanSemmel77 What happened in Japan was horrific, it also happened in the 20th century, before many of the international laws we obey today came into existence. Also is that the criteria we use for wars, oh what we did isn't as bad as another country? I thought the standard was to obey international law? Look at the war in Ukraine. Israel has killed more civilians in 6 months, than Russia has in 3 years. So by your logic, Russia is pretty respectful to Ukrainians, compared to Israel? A country gets judged by its own actions, not if it's better or worse than other countries.
Hamas knew what the Israeli response was? Well Israel supported Hamas for years as part of its plan to prevent a united Palestinian leadership and a 2 state solution. Surely Israel knew when it helped keep Hamas in power that a terrorist group that has had in its charter the destruction of Israel, would carry out a terrorist attack at some point? Did they not see how Pakistan supporting the Taliban lead to terrorist attacks in their country? And surely they knew if their response to a terrorist attack to a was to launch a full scale war and indiscriminately kill civilians, that would turn world opinion against Israel? Israel is not only destroying Gaza, they are destroying Israel. Their economy is hurting, they just got downgraded by Moody's. They are politically unstable, with large protests. Their biggest ally, the US, has the leader of the Senate calling for their president to be removed from office, they've frayed diplomatic ties with a whole host of countries, that will take decades to rebuild if ever. The more we treat Israel with kid gloves and say, "It's all Hamas's fault.", the bigger Israel digs a whole for themselves. They need to take responsibility for their actions. And the US needs to stop being an enabler, be a true friend who tells you what you need to hear, not a fake friend who tells you what you want to hear, to keep the peace.
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@user-sz1lz1zq8y His viewpoint is behind the world. It's not just Netanyahu that's the problem, it's the entire Israeli government. If you removed Netanyahu, it wouldn't stop the war or move Israel toward working toward a 2 state solution. Because the Israeli government has sold its people the lie that they need to get rid of the Palestinian people to achieve safety for Israel. That's why Israeli citizens didn't care that Netanyahu was propping up a TERRORIST group for 2 decades, because it fit the lie that this would get rid of the Palestinian people, and then it backfired on Oct 7th. And in response, Netanyahu gave them a war, because it fits the lie that for Israel to be safe, they must get rid of the Palestinian people. If you got rid of Netanyahu, the war would continue, because the Israeli government has convinced the Israeli people that the war can not stop. Israelis may hate Netanyahu, but they very much this war.
I don't question Friedman's honesty, nor Bremmer's. Nor even Biden's. But they are too slow to realize what the rest of the world has already realized: Hamas and Israel are two sides of the same coin. Hamas should not rule over the Palestinian people, the Palestinians need new leadership, and the Israeli government should not rule over the Israeli people, Israelis need new leadership. The US government wants an easy solution, just remove Netanyahu but if the US does nothing to bring this war to an end, this could be the US's Suez moment, it's a moment that happens with all great powers, the point in the history books were you can say, that empire is coming to an end and no longer controls the narrative. The US needs to realize what the rest of the world did months ago and act!
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