Their most likely to succeed strategy would be pursuing victory through the Israeli court system (which was relatively on their side, leading to the attempted “court reform” power grab that was the political story in Israel prior to October 7). Their next best bet would be Israeli politics moving away from the current right wing nationalist coalition.

Just gonna say that the problem in Israel isn’t just the current right wing coalition. Israel has been an Apartheid Nazi state since its founding in 1948, and before that it was always meant to be an Apartheid Nazi state. That aside, this was the plan after the Second Intifada ended in 2005, but here’s the thing: The peaceful resistance project failed. It’s over, peaceful resistance from the inside will never bring change for Palestinians. At this point the PA’s only role is to enforce Israel’s Apartheid on the Palestinians of the West Bank. I’ll also point out that the Israeli court system is a dead end because the West Bank isn’t governed by Israeli civil law. It’s governed by Israeli military law as a military occupation. The court system you’re talking about explicitly doesn’t protect the Palestinian occupied territories.

In fairness to the PA, Palestine has an approximately 0% chance of winning a war against Israel. And an approximately 100% chance of them getting blown to pieces if they ever had an attack successful enough for Israel to fully mobilize against them (see Gaza).

The Gaza war has been/was an absolute disaster for Israel so if anything the violent resistance route is much more effective than whatever the PA is doing.

But at least it has a plausible chance.

It… doesn’t. The last time Israel had a leader willing to engage in good faith negotiations was in 1996 during the Oslo accords, and they killed him for it.

I can tell they’re passionate about the cause but yeah, feels like they’re quick to assume the worse of others in a disagreement.

As someone with many hot/slightly unpopular takes around here, this is very common on the Fediverse. Probably more so than Reddit.

Yes, on the eve of Trump’s inauguration. This isn’t a point for Biden.

For something to qualify as genocide, the special intent „dolus specialis“ is a key requirement. Killing people is not sufficient.

You can look up South Africa’s case at the ICJ for instances of said intent. That North Gaza starvation/extermination plan on its own qualifies as genocidal intent.

An issue is that Amnesty International and Ireland expanded the definition of genocide for the case of Gaza specifically.

People defending Israel are claiming that; why are you stating it as fact?

Hamas has repeatedly stated that killing all the Jews is an objective of theirs.

They haven’t though. They consider the destruction of Israel an objective of theirs, but at least as of 2017 they officially don’t want the extermination of Jews.

I guess I was wrong then. Gotta thank Cunningham’s law.

I mean most convictions (I’d hope) are based on evidence that makes sense. I guess what I’m saying is: If we discount the possibility of intentional martyrdom, then it doesn’t make sense that someone would walk around with that much incriminating evidence right after committing a crime that would get the whole nation hot on their tail. Not saying he definitively didn’t do it, but I won’t discount the possibility of the contents of his bag being planted.

Okay if this goes through I’ll have to admit that the leopards have indeed eaten faces.

Wasn’t the evidence the things they found in his bag? The gun and manifesto?

I mean he was arrested based on low-quality security camera pictures that barely, if at all, looked like him. And the evidence seemed too obvious unless he intended to be arrested. The officers who arrested him also said something like “I saw him and just knew it was him”, which does not inspire confidence. There’s a not insignificant chance the evidence they did “find” on him was planted.

I mean I’m pretty sure the evidence for his arrest was flimsy as fuck. As long as he has a competent lawyer (which he should have) he should be able to get the judge to throw out the case. I think.

Edit: Turns out I’m wrong, see this.

Thankfully I managed to get away (sort of) but yeah, that was not a fun time.

Correction: It’s the Zionists, who are occasionally also Jews. Organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace are not being listened to.

If Europe was willing to offer that China wouldn’t be winning in Africa in the first place.

Egypt because they bribed him one time and because without foreign aid Egypt would collapse causing a refugee crisis that would make Syria blush.

Yeah that’s fair. Still, the situation that made genocide Joe genocide Joe is, at least for now, not there.

The socialism they’re talking about here is a USSR-style central planned economy, just to make that clear. That sort of environment is absolutely hostile to foreign investment for many reasons, not the least of which is the corruption that will take decades to fully erase, if such a thing is even possible. For a demonstration of what that means today look at Egypt, which isn’t socialist but has many of the same problems due to the military’s encroachment on the market. The problem is that it’s impossible to compete with a state that doesn’t want to let you compete, so you’re at the mercy of the government in a way that tends to repel foreign investment.

Yeah exactly.

This is just how ceasefires with Israel work. It’ll calm down eventually, but remember that even in the best of days Gaza is considered a free fire zone for the IDF. I hate it, but it also means we’ll need more before we can judge the ceasefire as ineffective.

Fine, then let’s rephrase it as “Israel subjects Palestinians to Apartheid”, which is just a fact and there’s really no way to get around it.