And I, for one, believe that that would have happened a long time ago if the Palestinians had followed the Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi playbook.

Perhaps I am wrong. Like the rest of the world, I also don't have the solution for this quagmire.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

The experiment has actually been running already. The Gaza Strip is run by Hamas, which is violent and pushes back against Israel however they can. The West Bank is run by Fatah, which has been attempting to keep good relations with Israel and work with them.

Despite that, the West Bank has seen a continuing encroachment of illegal Israeli settlers, continuing violence directed at Palestinians, both by the settlers moving in there and by the Israeli army. The reason the border with Gaza was so ill-defended was because Netanyahu had moved much of the force usually stationed there into the West Bank. Palestinian deaths in the West Bank has been rising.

I don't think the Mahatma Ghandi approach is likely to work in the Middle East. At least no better than any other approach people have been trying has been working there.

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Development aid, not weapons as the west supplies to Israel. But otherwise you're right. The whole region should be disarmed.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The only way to disarm "the whole region" would be to basically level all of it and make it totally uninhabitable.

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That thought also crossed my mind.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Has anyone ever heard of BDS?!?

[–] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

I’m not saying it’s the right move

But it would solve a whole lot of issues.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

The US sends aid to palestine as well, just nowhere near as much as we do to israel.

And there isn't a good solution. No matter what, everybody will be mad. Mad and not violent would be nice, though.