Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "'Get them out' – Douglas Murray on Britain's Hamas supporters | SpectatorTV" video.

  1. "Why do the Palestinians have to be Israel's problem?" Because they've been living on the territory Israel claims, for centuries now?... And the ones who had the wherewithal to move to Jordan, already did so. It's mostly the impoverished ones that are left. I agree with a lot of what you're saying, Douglas, but you're skipping over a lot of the reasons this is such a hard problem. Today's issue is, how do we keep an atrocity hundreds of times worse than the a**a**ination of Archduke Ferdinand, from spiraling into another world war. The individuals perpetrating this atrocity must be brought to justice, but that episode of history shows just how fraught that kind of international law enforcement can be. I hope everyone involved in this crisis have learned the details of that historical crisis, so we aren't condemned to repeat it.
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  2.  @TheBullshitkiller  [Just so I can offend everybody, I guess...] What Hamas did was an atrocity, and those who planned and executed it should be tried and hanged. Israel, even in simply deliberately and rapidly displacing a million people (before even firing a shot), are at risk of causing a level of pain and suffering similar to what was a culpable war crime at Nuremberg. A million civilians without their normal means of gaining food, clean water, medicine, appropriate clothing and shelter, or sanitary facilities, are a million civilians at risk of dying in many of the ways the Germans killed the Jews (et al) in middle of the last century. More than one thing can be true.
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  3. "The intent of the Israelis is to kill as few innocent people as possible" They have forced the evacuation of over a million people (about half the population of Gaza). If you study the Nuremburg Trials, you'll find that much of the human suffering of this period came from the displacement of people out of their homes and arrangements where they supported their own livelihoods, and into places that were not prepared to support them -- insufficient food, insufficient warm clothing, insufficient sanitary facilities, insufficient medicine. Does Israel intend to make sure this slow-motion atrocity does not happen, or are they dedicated to the proposition that this must be made someone else's problem?
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