It is, however, perfectly viable to array ourselves against a group that clearly favors statist solutions and looks forward to establishing a state, explicitly.
It’s not a crime, but it is something we oppose as unjust.
Well, as Ron Paul himself would say let’s ask ourselves why the Palestinians are so angry with Israel. If I were forced to live in what’s little more than a giant gulag I think I’d be angry too. Want to leave? You can’t. For all their cheap rhetoric about Muslim solidarity the Gulf States won’t touch Palestinian immigrants with a ten ft pole. They much prefer getting their manpower from Bangladesh, Pakistan etc. Europe, for all her verbal diarrhea about “human rights” won’t touch Palestinians with a twenty ft pole despite letting in the scum of the Earth.
Personally, given the depth of infiltration of Palestinian organizations by the dreaded Shin Beth, I wouldn’t be surprised if Palestinians were somehow coaxed or cajoled into firing the first shot. For over a year Israel has been torn by strikes and protests by workers, unions etc about the common theme all over the West: poors are getting poorer, rich are getting richer, inflation is spiraling out of control etc. What better way to unite the country than a foreign attack?
Probably the Tsa’hal HQ also wants to see if their troops quality has somewhat improved. While the failure of the 2006 Lebanon offensive is often pinned on stiff resistance by Hezbollah, in reality it was much down to the low morale of the once legendary Israeli soldier. Whole infantry units refused to carry positions and tank crews often withdrew their vehicles at the first sign of danger. Note that during the Yom Kippur War Israeli tank crews often displayed such suicidal bravery as to daze the well armed Arab forces: desperate resistance by a handful of Centurion tanks was all it took to break the momentum of the Syrian offensive in the Golan. This was confirmed in later years when, for the first time in Israeli history, thousands of reservists failed turn up at summons or performed the bare minimum to avoid disciplinary sanctions. The tactics experimented during Operation Cast Lead were a direct response to this unexpected deterioration of the human material: heavier reliance on indirect fire, heavier reliance on air strikes, heavier reliance on sniper fire and so on. As Moshe Dayan (he was not a great general, as demonstrated by how he easily cracked under pressure during the Yom Kippur War, but he knew psychology very well) said Israel cannot let the “Arabs” think it’s weak. I am sure reports from Hezbollah about low Israeli morale were on Iranian desks in a matter of weeks.
Why don’t they just send the 30000 troops in to the mosque and houses and confiscate all the weapons but don’t kill or kidnap innocents in the process. That seems some what reasonable. But knowing isreal history with fase flag attacks and their sheer lack of empathy. It would not surprise me if isreal set off the rockets or allowed the rockets to bet set off at the least, in order to give justification to attack gaza. I don’t think that isreal is above the attack and murder of its own population in order to gain popular support in the murder of Palestinians and other non jews.
The non aggression principle is not so relevant in this context, for one both sides are partaking in aggression so both sides have an argument of defensive aggression and two, both sides have a government and acting with and and behalf of patriotism and respect for country. Institutionalised violence on both sides. If anything Palestinians are more on the side of individual aggression out of personal emotion, but that is only due the lack of organisation and technological capabilities that they have available, which is arguable due to isreali treatment of gaza for the last few decades.
It’s really strange to hear claims, the equivalent of ‘it’s really difficult not to kill innocent human beings’. No it is not. You make a decision you are not going to murder people and so you don’t. It is only difficult not to murder when it is easy for you to kill innocents. It is we who decide what is the easier course of action for us. Israelis could decide that not killing innocent people could never be the easier path for them and that would be it. But they do not because the innocents in question are Arabs who dislike them and against whom Israel exacts measures of collective reprisals. The idea the IDF would kill 10 Israeli civilians in order to kill one Hamas fighter is laughable. They would simply consider the scenario where they kill 10 Jewish non-combatants a non-starter.
Gang:
- (US) A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
- A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit, or a group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
Criminal groups are violations of the NAP. The point of my post was that even if Hamas is not a state, it is certainly a criminal group, and therefore a violation of the NAP.
You spoke specifically about gangs which are aspiring to become states, implying you draw a distinction between a gangs which are aspiring to become a state and gangs which are not aspiring to become states.
If you meant to be clear it is the ‘gang’ portion of the characterization you have a problem with and not the ‘aspiring to become a state’ portion you should have left the latter information out as non-relevant.
You inferred that was what I was talking about. I did not imply it.
My post was a direct response to cab21’s post about Israel being a violation of the NAP. I was drawing a parallel between the Israeli government and Hamas, not between the Israeli government and the Crips. The distinction was relevant to the context of cab21’s post.
I’m glad we cleared that up.
The zionists were the ones who used force to clear non-Jews out of Palestine, in order to live there.
Now they have to deal with constant war. Which they call terrorism, because they don’t want to believe there is an actual opposition to what they did.
Just like white people think no native American could possibly be angry about the current US.
Should I also imagine the land in the territory known as “Israel” is legitimately owned by these “Jewish people”, or should I imagine they came to claim it after they drove out these “Gazans” from their homes in “Israel” into Gaza?
I thought the Palestinians left Israel, abandoned their homes, of their own free will, because they were told to by the surrounding arab nations who had decided to destroy Israel during the upcoming '67 war. Problem was, Israel won that war.
Actually it took place during the 1947-1948 war.
Problem was Israelis took steps to prevent their return, making the question if they left their homes free of duress or in a situation where they believed they had reason to fear for their safety a moot point.
You should imagine whatever the hell you want, but meanwhile get off Native Americans’ land and go back to Europe. You have 15 seconds to do that; a rocket aimed at your house is in the air.
Marko, if my neighbor allowed the use of his house for staging an attack on my house, I would also prevent his return to it after I kicked out his aggressing cousins. The same way that I would take away a gun that belonged to my ‘innocent’ neighbor that his cousin unfortunately borrowed to shoot at me. It’s ridiculous to say that I am aggressing against my neighbor since he personally did not shoot at me with his gun.
Contrast it with another neighbor who did not lend his gun to the aggressor… and whom I’ve been living in peace with ever since.
What if your neighbor ran off because he heard on the wire that a motorcycle gang was coming to shoot up your house. Would you burn his house down? Prevent his return?
You know what I’ve never understood about these flare-ups we have every few years? Why do Israel and the Palestinians need outside parties to “broker” a cease fire? Maybe there’s a good reason and I just don’t know it, but to me, trying to force peace from the outside is in the same camp as trying to artificially prop up an economy when it should be going into recession. Not that I think it would be good for them to have more killing, but it seems to me, they obviously have a beef with each other, so why does Hillary Clinton riding in on her high-horse all of a sudden make them willing to sheath their swords?
That’s my understanding as well. If Palestinians wanted to live peacefully in Israel, they could.
" That’s my understanding as well. If Palestinians wanted to live peacefully in Israel, they could."
Israel is only for Jews. It is based on rights for them, not for anyone else.
it would be like saying that Christians or Hindus can live peacefully in Saudi Arabia.