Comments by "Taxi Rob" (@taxirob2248) on "Israel Has No Post-War Gaza Strategy." video.

  1. 18 years in a giant prison camp thinking about it probably just left violence as the only thing that made sense.
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  2.  @birdatbattlefield  asking people to come and mow what used to be THEIR lawn for a subsistence wage, yes how generous indeed
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  3. Translation: "this can be over tomorrow if Israel is allowed to complete their ethnic cleansing of Gaza."
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  4. Israel blockaded the whole territory. Gaza is not a state, and has never been allowed true sovereignty by Israel. Stop pretending you didn't know that already.
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  5.  @sanfinnik  right to return was never allowed to happen. Netanyahu has made dozens of false promises and intimations of things he never intended to deliver.
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  6.  @asiblingproduction  when you have a hammer...
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  7.  @eonby5941  Explain why marriages between non-Jews are not recognized by the state. Explain the limited power of non-Jewish Knesset members. Explain why dual citizenship with Israel is okay, but not with Palestine (yes, they have special passports that recognize them as a nation. Funny how that works only when Israel wants to exclude them, like the US putting natives onto reservations.)
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  8. Israel's capital is Jerusalem.
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  9. who were "they all?" DId you personally see every Gaza resident celebrating, or did you see what pro-Israeli media showed you? Same stores were told on 9/11 to stoke anti-Muslim feelings.
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  10. Are you so underinformed that you did not know that Israel moved their capital to Jerusalem? It's been their capital on paper since 1980, they made it official several years ago.
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  11.  @illuminat121  I don't understand why fascists don't just admit to what they are, almost like they know what they are doing is wrong...
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  12. Are you dense? Israel moved their capital to Jerusalem. That's part of the problem here. And yes, the US gov is sometimes referred to as "Washington" by media all over the world, including within the US.
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  13.  @Noobsaucer  not sure whose ass you have your head inside of to even ask that question in the first place, but you're welcome.
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  14.  @dewit5883  "fairness" is relative, especially given the asymmetrical firepower involved. I really need to see specifics before making such a subjective judgement. It's more likely there are redlines that might seem reasonable to people on one side but not the other, while complete outsiders might be scratching their heads over them. And it might be some very specific item that seems completely insignificant to everyone but the people demanding it, or they might be red herrings meant to derail the convo. Given the amount of time this has gone unresolved, I'm leaning toward the latter. Smarter people than us have failed for decades, I can't help but think they've been deliberately sandbagged by the people holding all the aces. Instead of laying their cards down, they keep raising the stakes. And by aces I mean the finest western weaponry in pretty much unlimited amounts. And by stakes I mean everything from the river to the sea.
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  15.  @thomaskalbfus2005  explain all the attacks before Hamas existed
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  16.  @mesa9724  you stand for settler colonialism in 2024. Not very civilized IMO.
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  17.  @backstabba  Gazans didn't do anything, Hamas did. Look who's mislabeling everyone when it suits them...
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  18. it is officially Jerusalem and the US embassy is located there.
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  19.  @thomaskalbfus2005  don't be obtuse, Thomas. Hydra effect is real, that's how we got both Al Qaeda and ISIS.
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  20. Dude Gaza is on the coast of the Mediterranean. If it wasn't under Israeli blockade for going on two decades, they'd be making a shitload of tourist money. Ever heard of a thing called a "beach?"
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  21.  @Archangelm127  says who? Palestinians in Gaza should be the ones deciding how to develop their own land.
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  22.  @Archangelm127  ok but they're not necessarily forced, it IS their land under international law, it's still part of the occupied territories. The ongoing issue is that they don't have real sovereign control of their own land. They can't leave, they can't develop it, they are just stuck there. But they should not be forced to leave it either. It's theirs.
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  23.  @SpaceMarine500  weird how you think Muslim is a nationality.
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  24.  @amnont8724  weird how you don't know how each of those countries have done exactly that to varying degrees
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  25.  @EgoEroTergum  weird how you think all of Palestine is Hamas
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  26. That would mean undoing all the Israeli settlements INSIDE Palestinian territory. And those settlers are armed hardcore Zionists or they wouldn't be there in the first place.
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  27. The one state solution can't happen because then the Jewish ethnostate comes to an immediate end. The Basic Laws make that impossible.
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  28.  @eonby5941  who cares what governments claim out of expediency? The US says the Kurds are terrorists on paper, but sends them arms to fight ISIS. They did the same thing in Nicaragua and El Salvador. They also supplied mujahedin against the USSR in Afghanistan, not the best plan in the long run.
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  29.  @eonby5941  the West has also refused to recognize certain regimes throughout its history, if Hamas is the problem they can just crate a new Gaza authority any time they want to.
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  30.  @eonby5941  I don't need to compare them. There are plenty of other documents that describe Israel's intention to create and maintain an ethnostate. The current status of non-Jews inside Israel is that of less than full citizens. You can talk around in circles all you like, but if you really want to encourage people to do their own research, you're going to lose every time.
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  31.  @eonby5941  NO. Poland and Sweden do not specifically elevate ethnic Poles or Swedes in the way that Israel does for Jews. In those countries, ALL citizens are granted the same rights. Your false equivalencies to excuse bigotry are disgusting.
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  32.  @eonby5941  I've met Palestinian-Americans. They are treated like Palestinians when trying to visit their homeland. No religious group should have purview over civil marriages, period. Arab Knesset members can easily be sanctioned for speaking too loudly on behalf of Palestinians, whose land Israel effectively controls. With an already small minority of seats, the other Knesset members can vote to suspend them at will and without cause. The reason that Netanyahu wanted to "reform" the judiciary is because it defended the rights of Arabs to exist as legitimate political opposition.
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  33.  @eonby5941  "Hamas is so much worse" is like saying that Eastern Europe got off easy under communist authoritarianism. Evil is evil, but also, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. In practical terms, Hamas was Gaza's ONLY choice. And they haven't been given the opportunity to change their minds. The West decides which regimes it considers legitimate, and ignores those that they don't (ask the Cubans and Venezuelans about that.) By the same token, what is essentially a provisional government is easily dismissed by the occupier in every case except this one for some reason. And that reason is that Israel as a whole is acting out a passive-aggressive ethnic cleansing campaign. There are NO excuses for the illegal settlements if the Israeli government IN FACT wants to honor the previous two state roadmaps. No matter how much I want to believe that good people are looking out for both sides from within Israel, the state's actions on every level that matters point in the opposite direction.
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  34.  @eonby5941  Internationally administering the occupied territories sounds good to everyone but the people who live there. They've already seen that movie. They've already seen the first post-mandate deal broken. That's why they are called occupied territories in the first place.
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  35.  @eonby5941  wait I thought Hamas was freely elected, so which is the "truth" you are claiming today?
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  36.  @eonby5941  do the "good guys" always win civil wars? About a dozen or so African nations might not agree. Just because Gaza had it out with itself doesn't mean the best faction won from the point of view of the people who actually live there.
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  37.  @eonby5941  NO guarantee that it will be better for Gazans. It's almost like you haven't read a fucking thing I've written. Not surprised, fascists tend to only hear their own voice.
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  38. Horseshit. You think Israel's borders include the occupied territories, which it doesn't.
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  39.  bulletflight  Gandhi was a toucher. And looking at how his successors have run things, he didn't learn anything from the Holocaust either.
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  40. Israel made a big deal of making it official and Trump endorsed the move.
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  41.  @illuminat121  Not you. I call fascists fascists. It's the fascists who are cheapening the meaning of it, not "people."
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  42.  @GreatRetro  how about I come and build a fence around your house and tell you when you can come and go, inspect all your mail, and maybe let you leave long enough to mow my lawn (which used to be yours?)
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  43. So every deal should be the one that Israel wants and no one else has any input...got it. Why bother with negotiation then, since they are obviously into continuing their authoritarian policies?
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  44.  @Killer66hitman  Hamas isn't "hiding behind civilians." They are in their own territory, which is very small. Your ideas are so idiotic as to be laughable, so you might as well not bother with so many words. It doesn't nothing to elevate your content.
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  45.  @amnont8724  they left it, but they did not leave it alone.
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  46.  @SkeletonChrist  weird how the Jewish bible talks about the Philistines...
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  47.  @SkeletonChrist  the Romans called it what the people who lived there already called it. Latinization doesn't change the definition of a word, only the way it's written.
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  48.  @007kingifrit  the British held the mandate, and had no exit strategy. Do you even history?
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  49. Israel would not exist without Western arms.
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  50. you met their commander's what?
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  51.  @dewit5883  yes, and the fact that religion absolutely is driving both sides at this point in time means true compromise is unlikely. The secularist left on both sides are the most rational actors, too bad the rest of the world is too busy still living out the goddamned Cold War to see that.
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  52. Which details are you questioning? What do you know that the channel does not?
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  53. You're seriously deranged. Israel has NEVER carried through on any two-state plan. They murdered their last PM who agreed to one.
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  54.  @newwonderer  maybe among the 5 millions Palestinian refuges still living in camps established after the last Arab-Israeli war, or 8 million more living in other countries as part of the Palestinian diaspora?
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  55. Yes probably to use the hostages as leverage. What they didn't account for was Israel not caring whether the hostages are alive or dead.
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  56.  @kiasia3219  the old Jason Voorhees strategy...
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  57.  @Archangelm127  you're denying Palestinians the right to self-determination, which is the core issue here. A minority party holds legal power there, but how many regimes does the West arbitrarily decide to deny legitimacy to? PRC, Cuba, DPRK, North Viet Nam, Venezuela, just to name a few. Sounds like nothing but passive aggressive children in charge of the pro-Israel camp to me, they can just create a new Gaza government any time they want like they did in postwar Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan. What's stopping them?
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  58.  @nicholasjohnson778  Hamas is just a placeholder name though. A new generation is being radicalized by the invasion.
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  59.  @SuperCrow02  that's not what public opinion, is, just yours. People are seeing the overreaction by Israel for what it is.
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  60.  @MathersIRL  sure does seem to be going that way, fash. Soros is turning your kids trans as we speak.
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  61. maybe to get SUPPORT from the international community that supplies them with everything necessary to defend themselves? That's kind of a big deal I would think.
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  62.  @ChrisFodor  stop being a bigot. Not all Jews are Zionists. If you hate all Jews that's your problem, the people suffering in Gaza don't need more hate in this equation.
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  63.  @Ayzahar  decimation plus ethnic cleansing equals what?
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  64. because the radical right is who is in charge.
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  65.  @universauniversisveritas  You're decrying international recognition as the locus of legitimacy, but also claiming it's the locus of legitimacy. Seems like some countries' opinions matter more to you than others, and that's not a rigorous standard. The bottom line is that most embassies are in Tel Aviv to please everyone else, while Israeli law declared Jerusalem as its true legal capital in 1980. The intent and spirit has always been there, and US recognition is just ripping off the band-aid.
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  66.  @amnont8724  terrorism in the cause of liberation is a different thing than terrorism in the cause of tyranny. Unfortunately the people see it one way while the religious kooks like Hamas see it in another. And the way that opinion poll questions are worded can create some utterly bogus results. I won't accept any polls from Western sources any more than I accept the opinion polls or referendum results posted by Russia from inside occupied Ukraine territory.
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  67.  @Mhark127  Yemenis were actively attacking Saudi territory. Try again.
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