No, pro Palestinian leftists, Israel is not committing genocide

[Martin Eden]

49. With the question you asked and answered, you are ignoring Gaza and the West Bank

Are they living peacefully mixed among the Jewish population?

Look at what's been happenig in the West Bank. For decades Israel has increased it's settlements, often pushing Palestinians off their land. This activity and violence have increased since Oct 7.

The ostensible Palestinian state is sliced & diced by settlements and the roads connecting them, rendering a two state solution impossible.

I have no doubt the Palestinians within Israel proper are capable of living peacefully within an Israel that encompasses all the land.

Do you really think that model fits the West Bank and Gaza? When or if Gaza is rebuilt, will the Palestinian survivors who endured brutal hardship and saw family members blown to bits live peacefully side-by-side with their Jewish neighbors?

To believe that is to ignore more than a half century of history leading up to this point.

As I said before, Hamas is a bigger obstacle to that peaceful ideal than are Jewish Israelis. The notion that Hamas can be wiped out by bombing Gaza to rubble is delusional. Bombs cannot so easily destroy an idea, nor turn for the better the hearts and minds of Palestinians in Gaza who've seen their homes and businesses destroyed and so many of their brethren slaughtered.

Netanyahu knows this, and he is not alone in the Israeli government. Likud in partnership with other rightwing parties keeps winning elections. Rhetoric from some of the ministers is atrciously extreme. Hamas is not the only obstacle to peaceful coexistence.

I would bet my life savings that a two state solution is not going to happen. Far too many Israelis would have to be forced from the communities they've established in the West Bank, some of them multigenerational

Israeli hardliners are playing the long game within the sweep of history. They have a Palestinian problem they need to go away to attain the goal of a safe and secure nation state homeland for the Jewish people.

40,000+ dead Palestinians in Gaza is not a regrettable but unavoidable result of this horrible conflict. It is a deliberate strategy which Oct 7 made possible with a measure of plausible deniability.