The photo of the giant tunnel looks so weird. I saw it too but it looks strange. And why Druse propaganda now?
anyway, yes, the tunnel is very impressive. Consider how much money building such a tunnel costs, if they used the money for something else they would have had their tax-free Montecarlo heaven by the sea. A few casinos, a few resorts, rich Arabs, Chinese and Russians coming to spend money, foreign workers doing menial work, Aza would have been richer than anything. Palestinians would have free education, health services, everything.
But no, our beepol make tunnel, we make rocket we burn money.
Sad about the hostages getting shot, but three shirtless men carrying a big stick can be easily misinterpreted. Because an Arab suicide bomber or shooter can also raise his hands and say hostage in Hebrew.
I will disagree with the post with the situation analysis that said imagine it's like the Europeans and the Indians not getting the message that they lost. The Europeans came to America and conquered it. The Jews coming to Israel are coming back where they came from.
During history, the owners of the land changed often and just over 100 years ago it was part of the Ottoman Empire. Zionist Jews were coming and buying land from Arab or Turkish owners. In 1948 there was a plan for partition, the Arabs didn't accept it and they lost the war.
Also it's more complicated if you start mixing in religion. Because then you have "Israeli" and "Jewish" having very different meanings and within "Jewish" even more complicated divisions.
There are places in Jerusalem where you can't have an Israeli flag because it's Tzionut (Zionist) and where they shout "Nazi" at the Israeli army and police. The Yeshiva world is very different. For many of the religious, the Israeli state is almost an enemy because it pulls people away from the "good road". There are orthodox Jews, non-religious Jews, "reform" Jews, all kinds. Even "national religious".
It's not easy to explain. If you check Psalm 29, sung in every synagogue every Friday, you will see that they already had trouble with Syria and Lebanon thousands of years ago.
I can't understand the delusion that made the Palestinians choose Hamas and Hamas choose to attack Israel this way. What were they hoping for? Israel to say "wow, you are so powerful, we give up, invade everything"? or was it intended to happen with an attack from the North and from Syria? and it happened on Putin's birthday...
A conscript army is of course not so well-trained as a professional army, but in a country where everyone knows they will be in the army, being in the army is not such a shock. And they won't send untrained conscripts to do the difficult and dangerous tasks. If things haven't changed too much, the combat units are made up of people who wanted to be in them. Apparently, after the attack, the amount of women volunteering for combat units has increased 3x.
Anyway, it's not America and a bunch of Indians not getting the message that they lost. Until the 1840s, 1850s there were kingdoms, empires, there was no reason to say that Hungarians should have "Hungary", Italians "Italy", Germans "Germany" and so on. The idea that a people, a nation, should have their state is relatively new. The Jews started going back to their ancestral homeland and wanted to form their own country. Under English occupation it was called "Palestine". Under ancient Romans it was called "Judea".
So yk "free Palestine" sure, give it back to the Jews. The Jews were the only "people" as in "nation" in the area who can state, today, they were linked to those who were there at Roman times.
Ancient Roman maps in attachment
