The squad has carried out 1,200 missions to neutralise, defuse and destroy unexploded warheads in residential areas.
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How exactly are Palestinians supposed to live like this? How can one reasonably expect that they
won't become radicalized when they can't even sleep without the fear of getting bombed by Israel?
(This question is specific to Palestinians and their day-to-day lives.)
How can they live? Miserably. But they can't very well spend several decades lobbing rockets at Israel, trying to destroy Israel in wars, giving wide support to terrorist organizations, and all the rest, then act surprised when Israel fires back.
The whole thing is a damned mess and quite frankly, won't ever be solved unless
both sides stop talking about "right". Palestine itself fell in the 15th century. From then until WWI, the land was not owned by "the Palestinians", but rather The Ottoman Empire. Britain got its hands on it. After WWII and the holocaust, every arab country expelled its Jews (and yes, once Israel was established, it retaliated by expelling arabs). Meanwhile, the UN came up with a number of resolutions that would've given "the Palestinians" way more land than they demand now. They refused.
They refused because they wanted (and the Hamas-oriented ones continue to want) there
never to be another Israel. Conflict followed, always with the goal of destroying Israel and killing the Jews. Israel naturally fought back. So to be clear on that point, neither Israel nor "the Palestinians" owned it for quite a long time.....right up until Israel was granted land to establish a state upon.
And now there are so many "but THEY did THAT" first points to be made that the moment anyone starts talking about the rightness and wrongness of it all, solutions become impossible. If we each pick a side we could spend a thousand pages saying "yeah, ok, but what about
that?!"
Yes, it is absolutely horrible that families get wiped out. Yet at the same time, what is Israel to do? Nothing? Just fire your rockets, Hamas, it's cool? Hell, Hamas attacks specifically because it
wants Israel to retaliate because when that happens, Israel inevitably hits civilians too. That's the whole point of Hamas setting off rockets from high-pop areas. They want martyrs in the news and they're going to get it because it is blindly unrealistic to expect any country not to respond to regular outside attack, no matter what past deeds might be blamed for that regular attack.
Quite frankly, it looks to me like those self-identifying as Palestinians are more at fault than Israel, and that the main instigators in Israel are the hard right backers who cater more to the ultra-Orthodox Jews there, themselves in conflict with the more secular Jews in Israel. And the only way I ever seeing the area become one in which nobody asks how people can live like this is if (1) the final solution is based purely on pragmatism and nobody blabs about their "right" to a given thing, (2) the Palestinians work closely with the IDF in eradicating Hamas.
And what would really really help? If neighboring arab countries would be willing to take "Palestinians" in or offer up some of
their land in a multi-party solution.
But you're not going to see peace with Hamas firing rockets - especially with Hamas
gaining support from Palestinians every time it blows up some Israeli Jews - because no country is going to
not retaliate if it
can retaliate.
One.
Big.
Mess.