1. Some 2 million Muslims live within Israel's borders, and another 3 million in the West Bank, adjacent to Israel. Peacefully, at least not the conditions we see in Gaza, which elected the terrorists of Hamas.
2. How many Jews are allowed to live in Gaza. Or in the more pleasant confines of West Bank or Nazareth???
3 .... Israelis don't want to conquer Gaza. In fact, they left Gaza voluntarily in 2005.
And they don't want to wipe Gaza off the map. If they wanted that, they could have done it any time in the last several decades. With their advantage and firepower, they could do it now in a matter of weeks. And you should ask yourself why they don't. Hamas, on the
other hand, does want to conquer Israel and wipe it off the map. And they would be happy to do what they did on October 7th to the entire country.
That's what I mean when I say that the two sides in this war are not the same.
There is a huge moral asymmetry between them and that matters.
4. AI Overview
Hamas’s founding 1988 charter calls for the complete destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic state in its place. It asserts that historic Palestine is an Islamic religious endowment (Waqf) and rejects any permanent peace or recognition of the Jewish state. [1, 2]
5.I have visited Christian holy sites and walked the stations of the cross in Jerusalem.
Israel protects the rights and views of all three religions, even turned the control of the upper wailing wall over to the Muslims.
Telling as well, is the fact that Israel has turned over authority of the over to the temple mount to the Waqf.....the Muslims.
Christians and Jews cannot pray or even bring a Bible....or wear a cross.
Israel represents the best of Western values, the only nation in the area that does.
2. How many Jews are allowed to live in Gaza. Or in the more pleasant confines of West Bank or Nazareth???
3 .... Israelis don't want to conquer Gaza. In fact, they left Gaza voluntarily in 2005.
And they don't want to wipe Gaza off the map. If they wanted that, they could have done it any time in the last several decades. With their advantage and firepower, they could do it now in a matter of weeks. And you should ask yourself why they don't. Hamas, on the
other hand, does want to conquer Israel and wipe it off the map. And they would be happy to do what they did on October 7th to the entire country.
That's what I mean when I say that the two sides in this war are not the same.
There is a huge moral asymmetry between them and that matters.
4. AI Overview
Hamas’s founding 1988 charter calls for the complete destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic state in its place. It asserts that historic Palestine is an Islamic religious endowment (Waqf) and rejects any permanent peace or recognition of the Jewish state. [1, 2]
5.I have visited Christian holy sites and walked the stations of the cross in Jerusalem.
Israel protects the rights and views of all three religions, even turned the control of the upper wailing wall over to the Muslims.
Telling as well, is the fact that Israel has turned over authority of the over to the temple mount to the Waqf.....the Muslims.
Christians and Jews cannot pray or even bring a Bible....or wear a cross.
Israel represents the best of Western values, the only nation in the area that does.
