SayHeyyShohei posted... The crazy thing is that people actually believe in the 1948 logic of "well it happened so we need to take it back".
Do they even realize how ridiculous the world would be if everyone followed that mantra? France would be trying to take over all of Europe. Australia and Oceania would be at war with the UK and US. Indigenous peoples would be taking over all of the Americas. Italy and Greece would be taking over the whole eastern hemisphere.
The world would be chaos. I hate to use the phrase "get over it" but it fucking applies at this point. What happened was disgusting. There should have been justice. But we don't live in a just world. Those who should have been held accountable are long gone. Any attempt at righting those wrongs are just creating new and more dangerous wrongs.
But Israel knows that and are operating in bad faith. They don't "want the land back", they want the land, period. It's not about justice. It's about an ethnostate.
It's nuts how every single civilized country on the fucking planet understands this yet there are people from within their own borders that support the nonsense that is going on between the IDF and Hamas. It's insane. That being said, fuck Hamas and fuck the IDF.
More or less.
On top of this, the sad truth is that there will never be peace in multicultural territories that aren't rich enough to care about anything else (like for example Switzerland or Belgium).
Everywhere else it's going to keep happening as long as there are two or more sides with different views and cultures. It's just disgusting human nature and unavoidable.
I hope I'm wrong, but I don't see a good resolution in all of this. This can cool down a bit, but then it'll start over again. In a year, two, ten, twenty, doesn't matter. There's no long-term peace in the middle East.