Originally Posted by
DeltaboundRedux
Love to hear from the peanut gallery about how Israel is going to identify and liquidate a few thousand Arabs hiding in a civilian population of a roughly 2 million hostile civilians without committing war crimes on a scale that can't be hidden.
I'm told that the US Marines did this during the Second Battle of Fallujah in 2004 by ordering every non-combatant (about 300,000) to leave the city before the fireworks started. Anyone adult male left was fair game for sniper target practice and artillery barrages. Totally worked, too, because Iraq is now a flourishing, pro-American democracy.
Small problem here: nobody, and I mean NOBODY wants to take Palestinians (roughly 1 million in Gaza City, 2 million in the entire Gaza strip) in as refugees. We don't call it an "internment camp" or "concentration camp", but if the shoe fits...
I've no solutions. But the "Destroy this Mad Brute Crowd" has an exit strategy, surely?
(fascinating stuff here about the Gaza strip, demographics, poverty, fertility, literacy (this is pretty high, actually), etc. The names and amounts of terrorist organizations reminds me of that "Life of Brian" skit .."Judean's People's Front?!?...we're the People's Front of Judea!" )
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbo...es/gaza-strip/
The last time a totally screwed up culture that had committed innumerable war crimes (including the deaths of 15 million Chinese)
https://youtu.be/dPwoknKVnxs?si=H5FLldwn73vSpusu
and had a tendency to fight to the last person (military or civilian) was compelled to change its culture was in 1945 required two nuclear weapons destroying two cities and killing nearly 200,000 mostly civilians. It did, however, terminate WWII without an invasion if the Japanese Home Islands which would have probably cost even more lives.
So yeah, Palestinian culture no doubt COULD be changed as well. All depends on what you are willing to do to change it.