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Egypt is offering aid. Israel isn't happy with that, though.

Presumably, they'd finally have control over their own water, electricity, trash, etc. And international recognition would help them avoid Israel just taking over more land like they have in the past and are currently doing in the West Bank. But it's complicated. Idk even know if I'm for a one-state or two-state solution. I feel like I keep bouncing between them, because you're right, there's still some problems with the two-state solution.

It would be better if they could all share the land in peace, without the settler colonialism. Maybe with some Constitutional guarantee of rights so the more numerous Palestinian population didn't immediately use their votes to fuck over the Jewish population there as soon as they got the right to vote. But idk, I'm not some doctorate in international and Middle-Eastern relations, I'm just a person who doesn't like civilian deaths and wants to see it all stop 😔

I'm addition to all the good info buzziebee gave, It's too late with Hamas having control of Gaza now. They're affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt doesn't want those extremists in their country, they've already had issues with them before so I'm pretty sure the MB is illegal in there now.

So the babies weren't beheaded, but shot or burnt. Still horrible, as expected 😔

That's because Egypt isn't the one who kicked them out of their homes and spread into more land, kickstarting the crisis in the first place.

They definitely should accept more than they have, but we can't blame Egypt for not wanting literally millions of refugees. No country would want that. Otherwise you end up like Palestine when the Israelis came in, or the Native Americans when British colonists come in.

I mean, they kind of left Gaza. They still send soldiers in there all the time, they still control most of its borders, it's water, electricity, trash, etc, and they cut those things off all the time. It's basically an open air prison.

Also, Israel has killed off all higher Hamas members before so that won't work. And Bibi supported Hamas to prevent a two state solution before so doubt he wants them united under one government. He just wants to do a genocide now, let's be honest.

As for possible solutions, there's too much emnity between Israel and Palestine, there probably needs to be a third party at this point, even though one caused the problem in the first place lol. Someone that's not the US or UK, since Israel is basically their puppet state and the UK caused the initial issues, and not one of the anti-Israel states like Iran. Or maybe it needs to be formed from both groups so that both points of view are represented? Idk. A solution is definitely the hardest part for sure.

I will say that staying off FB and Instagram, while it didn't cure me, it did help my mental health a notable amount. I also think going from Reddit to Lemmy has been helping my online addiction and attention span as well. I really do think Reddit and Tik Tok and other infinite short-form content algorithms have been hurting people's attention span. I've been slowly resuming reading books, but for awhile there I stopped, and I used to read a ton of books when I was a kid.

Same, didn't even know it was still going. Guess I'll have to re-watch at some point as well.

What a great cat name lol

And here's a Kbin friendly one!

@letsnotmeet@sopuli.xyz

Egypt probably doesn't want a million refugees. No country would. This is becoming WW2 all over again.

No it's not the same because this just happened and is still happening. That's what I'm saying the difference is. While they both matter, there's a big difference between wrongs that were done to your ancestors, which is what they were talking about, and wrongs that are done to you and family you know personally. You don't know really know until you're in that position. So for those tribes that did take up arms, honestly I don't blame them one bit.

Although obviously I'd probably condemn them if I lived in the same time period and saw them raping people and do the heinous shit Hamas did, from a historical standpoint, I can't judge the natives' armed struggle against the forces of colonialism.

It's so cute!