Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "SPARKS FLY: Journalist SPARS with Briahna Over TRUTH in Israel/Hamas War" video.

  1. "Everyone would love to see Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace" But not too close. Israel is opposed to allowing more than the 2M Palestinians who are already Israeli citizens, to live between the Med and the Jordan. They want to ethnically cleanse the other 5M Palestinians from the region. They do this by systematically making their housing unliveable, among other actions. Look, I would really love to have some good guys to root for here, but I'm not seeing any.
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  2.  @stevenwiederholt7000  The Palestinians living in Tel Aviv are part of the 2M I mentioned.
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  3.  @stevenwiederholt7000  And last I checked, there was a big debate in Israeli newspapers like JPost and Ha'aretz, whether Israel would have to give up being a democracy if it went with a one-state solution where the Palestinians living in Israel all got full Israeli citizenship. The general consensus was that they could not risk Palestinians becoming the dominant (or even major) political power in the state of Israel. Hence my comment about 2M Palestinians being about all Israel would tolerate as Israeli citizens. What are the implications of this consensus, that we can see working themselves out now? Well, the Palestinians would obviously have to be citizens of some other state. But Israel's "facts on the ground" policies of the last twenty (or fifty) years have ensured that through Israeli actions / strategy / deliberate policy, a two-state solution becomes less and less viable every year -- it's probably not viable now. The other solution? Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians (who have at this point lived in that territory for centuries longer than the ancient kingdom of Israel existed) through a variety of methods, which is what we're seeing now. I wish this was not the case. I wish there were some "good guys" here we could root for. The Palestinians (or at least Hamas) obviously aren't, after the October Atrocities. But we really can't see Israel as the "good guys" either, unless we say that ethnic cleansing is OK, and (for example) we were wrong to criticize the Serbians for their policies in the 1990s. At the very least, Israel is accusing the Palestinians of doing what Israel is doing and wants to do more -- get rid of millions of people they don't like, from the Eastern Mediterranean territory in question. What would I like to see from Israel instead of what they're doing? End policies that lead to ethnic cleansing (the elimination of housing blocks, the starvation of a population to a point that effectively sterilizes most of them). Instead, take actions that target the actual perpetrators of this atrocity, up to and including the Hamas leadership living abroad. In the end, the only way Israel is going to be able to survive in a region with a billion Muslims, is to end policies that make those Muslims h*te them.
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  4. Question: if the Palestinian government paid for more food for their citizens, would Israel let it into their country through the borders they control? Sounds like the answer is "no".
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