My best friend(who's jewish btw) thinks that they didn't prevent it so that they'd have a justification to genocide the palestinians. I don't like to be conspiratorial, but I see why he thinks that.
Surely the Ayatollah isn't stupid enough to do that.
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I feel like israel has forced itself into an impossible situation.
They want to be a jewish ethnoreligious state. However they also want to be a western democracy.
The issue with all of this is that Israel cannot be all these things at once. Gaza is under occupation. By all means, the state of israel should be responsible for the governance of this land, but that's not how people talk about it. You see that with shit like "Israel has the right to defend itself" type rhetoric. Yeah Israel has the right to defend itself, but they literally control that land, why can't they govern it effectively?
Well the reason is because, if you went in and you made all the people in gaza israeli citizens and you put that land under Israeli law and order, then it would threaten the status of Israel as a "jewish state". And that's why they won't do it.
Its the same thing with the west bank. The israelis want the land of the judaea and samaria due to its importance in judaism, but they don't want the people, because it would threaten israel's "demographic integrity".
Israel has two choices:
- Be a full blown jewish theocracy and give all people in the land equal rights under jewish law.
- be a secular democracy
But unfortunately, israel has chosen a much worst option. To turn itself into an apartheid state.