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Serious question.
Does an occupier have the "right" to defend itself from attacks from the occupied in occupied areas? For example, attacks on the IDF in the West Bank.
I believe that as long as there are attacks against civilians, then yes. Basically attacking civilians is never a good option. Many people live in the undisputed areas simply because it’s more beneficial to them as Israel supports it a lot. I personally visited one of these areas and the amenities were very good. So I don't think that it should be okay for Palestinians to come and murder Israelis in the undisputed areas.
However, the main issue is that these settlements exist. I am under the impression that you should not use the land as long as it is not widely recognised that it belongs to you. So the main issue is the approach that Israel claimed something is theirs without actually talking about it with the relevant parties.
But it’s been their decision to do this shit, so it’s their responsibility to solve it now. Either abandon it (which would be a complete waste of resources) or build something for Palestinians but those are just random guesses.
The settlements only exist because the Palestinians have been violently ethnically cleansed from the land the settlements exist on.
What you are arguing is effectively, it's fine to ethnically cleanse as long you settle civilians there afterwards.
I have not said that. I have said there should not be a violence from Palestinians because it solves nothing.
The IRA and ANC had great political outcomes through violence. Meanwhile the PLO laid down arms and Israel acts like the Oslo accords never happened.
Well maybe it worked sometimes but here it is not. Arabs/Palestinians tried roughly 10+ times and each time it ended in a complete catastrophe for them. At least I would change strategy.
In case you haven't noticed, most of the Palestinians being killed are the ones that didn't resort to violence, exactly the behaviour you claim above they should try.
Your entire "argumentation" line relies on the racist idea that all Palestinians are the same and hence they're all responsible for the violence of Hamas.
It's like justifying the Nazis going to villages in Occupied France and executing 10 random people for every German killed by the Résistance Française as if they're all the same and hence all guilty of the violence, something which is so painfully close to what Israel has been doing (except Israel has already surpassed the Nazis, with a rate which is more than double that 10-to-1 and includes children) and the kind of justification the Iraeli Authorities and their fellow racist supremacists give.
That racist "they're all the same hence all to blame (including children)" line has long ago stopped working, including your "Palestinians are violent" variant.
Excellent point. There should also not be violence from Israel because it solves nothing. So end the fucking genocide, the occupation, the god damn apartheid.
I agree with you. By these huge operations, Israel pretty much opens the door for another big extremist group.
Neither does peaceful protest considering ethnic cleansing has continued unabated for decades.
Well there have been several negotiations, so it is definitely better to continue in those compared to starting a war.
So basically you are saying the settlers are like Israel's human shields for the occupation and the Palestinians should not attack them? Excellent point, which of course should be applied also to the Gazan civilian population.
My point is that both sides should to their best to protect civilians whether those civilians are Palestinian or Israeli. None of them is doing it.