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Israel-Gaza Megathread #1

This is a megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.

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But if Gaza had been erased from the world years ago, everyone from squalling infants to doddering grandfathers, you would not have this problem.

You would have many other exciting problems. I doubt that mass murder of X million people is actually effective.

Hitler tried, and as far as curbing Jewish political power and influence, or as increasing power of Germany, or as taking Lebensraum, or as promoting eugenics and purity of german race - all that goals failed miserably. Despite actually murdering millions of people.

(and for ethics: I reject genocide as a solution)

Germans were thrown out of lots of territories post-WWII where they had historically lived.

This worked.

Germans were thrown out of lots of territories post-WWII

Mostly as a revenge for Germans themselves attempting to conquer and settle into their neighbors' territories. Am I the only one who sees Germans as more analogous to the other side in this conflict?

Yes, exiling people tends to work better and successes are more common there.