Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Levy Report and the ‘Occupation’ Narrative [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It's siege when they're five feet over the border and the government they serve is limiting your country's access to potable water. A difference, but a trivial difference.
Why are you belaboring it?
If you don't want people to call what Israel is doing to Gaza an occupation, then let Gaza control its own airspace, so goods and people can be peacefully and safely flown in and out of the place. Denying them control of their airspace hasn't stopped the rockets, so what good is it?
And the West Bank IS under occupation. It doesn't matter how many "areas" the IDF is in-they're there, so they have to be considered occupiers. And they're enabling the expansion of settlements(something that everyone who claims to be for peace has an OBLIGATION to oppose, since all settlement expansion is an injustice against Palestinians and does nothing at all to make Israel any more secure).
It's time to admit that it isn't all the Palestinians' fault...AND that the occupation wouldn't end if the Palestinians changed tactics. Just accept that there's plenty of blame on both sides...that's not too much to ask.