Israel are going to start WWIII

Reading through this thread has reaffirmed my view that Irish people should stay out of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, regardless of which side one is inclined to support. The whole thing is too fiendishly complex - the things that are happening now are the legacy of fateful decisions that were made decades ago. Irish people will have zero influence over the outcome of the conflict so there's no point stressing over it.

Israel in its current form …. i.e. Netanyahu's intolerant warmongering far right junta and its MAGA offshoot ….. does 100% deserve to be wiped off the face of the earth ….. anyone who supports Netanyahu supports the new Hitler and the new Hitler's lackey Donald Trump …… and by saying this does not make a person anti-Israel or anti-Jew …. just anti this evil regime …. wipe it out and let a moderate rule Israel and complete the 2 state solution and make peace with the rest …. Iran has a moderate president …. the Iraqis and Syrians will follow suit …… get rid of Netanyahu's malign influence and you solve a lot …..

Of course they will weaken them, but BN is in record saying Israel will not stop until Hamas is wiped out.

That is something that simply can't happen. They don't know every single member of Hamas, so how do they know they have wiped them out?

They can't, and they are doing what the British did in NI with actions like Bloody Sunday, just making a new generation of supporter and the terrorists of the future. If you're a young child and you are having your siblings and parents wiped out, you are very likely to harbour some ill will towards Jews. Or if you are a moderate adult male, and have your kids blown to bits, you'll be asking for a weapon to fight back.

It's a perpetual cycle. The only way it will end is if both sides learn to live together cos the other side ain't going anywhere.

The decent Jews should stand up and condemn what is being done in their name ….. and I know this is happening …. the US government should step up and condemn Netanyahu and his regime ….. Trump won't because he is a lackey but the Democrats should ….. and it is time to denounce this far right regime just like the world did Hitler and Milosevic because Netanyahu is a member of that club …. if anything worse ….. Netanyahu has killed millions of innocents in Palestine, in Lebanon, etc. and has murdered Soleimani, Nasrallah and various Hamas leaders ….. thus ensuring hatred and mistrust for years to come among peoples ….. he uses dimwit henchmen like Trump to do some of his dirty work …. Netanyahu is no one's friend and now is the time to realise this before he leads the duped down a path they do not want to go down …. Milosevic and Hitler must be wondering how and why Netanyahu was able to woo the West while they couldn't !!!

West Bank was traditionally Israeli territory

Poland was traditionally German territory, Ukraine was traditionally Russian territory, And we're not talking a thousand years ago either

In relation to starting world war 3, when you look at the bombing maps of gaza by Israel it's basically covering the whole area akin to a nuke.

I know I'm being hyperbolic, and that a nuclear bomb is a totally different story but its funny how thousands upon thousands of bombs are seen as a much much lesser evil than a nuke.

That was directed at Irish people though...

What's anti-Jewish by highlighting the control Jewish people exert?

And Israel is the "Jewish homeland" so of course its relevant.

Posters whose only point of reference is a superficial understanding of the Northern Ireland conflict using that as their entire frame of reference for Israel/Palestine is so terrible it's almost funny.

What about the Sri Lankan civil war versus the Tamil Tigers? How did that work out for the Tigers in the end? The Djiboutian civil war? Angola? I mean, there are any number of such conflicts that have ended with the original regime still in charge, and any measures towards the insurgents have come after they put down their weapons.

The idea that a sensible way to peace is for such a group to be rewarded for a murderous attack on civilians is not borne out by any conflict I know of - except when the insurgents have been able to defeat the regime militarily. And even then, the result is most often a failed state, rather than a new and better one. South Sudan or East Timor might be examples.

But for pity's sake, the repeated inaccurate comparisons with Northern Ireland are evidence only of posters' own inability to look beyond their own back yard to understand the world.

Not only that, another poster said I was creating a straw man for calling out that first sentence as anti semitic. So even posters who won't actually say this themselves are happy to see others saying it.