Thank you for the response. Hamas in its early days received funding from some key players in Israel as they were seen as the the opportunity to destabilise the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) - and the object lesson here is: Be careful what you wish for. I would like to see an end to this war (and also the war in Ukraine) because whatever is going on a the moment is essentially inhuman. People in Gaza, a very small area, have not been given the opportunity to leave, simply to move around the area. There has been a significant constraint don't the delivery of aid, food and medicine, reported in many places. I have some concerns when the regime engages in limiting the freedom of the press to report, and I have been critical of my own nation's government when they have made efforts like that in other matters.
My motivation is not to gain perspective. I have read 'Israel' by Noa Tishby and 'The Hundred Years War against Palestine" by Rashad Kahildi. And I would recommend them to anyone seeking to gain perspective.
I'd like to see an end to this war, and every other one, haha, probably not going to happen.
I appreciate your conversational style... talking rather than arguing, it's refreshing.
A couple of points, where I take issue with your post. Folks are using language like, "...because whatever is going on a the moment is essentially inhuman." and "People in Gaza, a very small area, have not been given the opportunity to leave, simply to move around the area." when they're calling on Israel to stop all this. But that seems to be placing the blame on Israel and separates what they're doing as "inhumane", as though other wars/conflicts aren't... to me, this is provocative language, histrionics.
Israel isn't restricting the Gazans freedom in movement... other than the fact that the Palestinians are relegated to a conclave. (Which is a bad thing, IMHO, but an issue that's separate from this conversation.) It's Hamas that's doing the restricting, and it baffles me to no end how people keep excluding this atrocity from the narrative/discussion. As well as many other horrible things that Hamas has done since the beginning of this, most recent, conflict... to include the original attack and the taking, holding and murdering hostages. Why are these things not priority talking points in any discussions... it seems to me that it's always about the bad that Israel is doing and silence about Hamas. I think that any discussion needs to include both.
Getting the humanitarian aid in there also requires some focus on the activities of Hamas' hampering that whole agenda... not just a "we could make things happen if the IDF would just stop their aggressiveness."
As for "freedom of the press", I have mixed feelings on the whole issue, in general. While I think that it's good to have wars and conflicts documented, it can be used for purposes that aren't good at all. Embedded journals can become a liability to the troops, they're another layer of security risk and can endanger the troops as well as, unwittingly, give away valuable intel. I also think that wars have become a sort of entertaining media thing, complete with commentators who provoke and entice sentimentality. Also, in the last couple of decades, it promotes the use of social media platforms, which make money off of it all. It reminds of all the tales of ancient gladiatorial "games".
Anyway, just outta curiosity... what would you like to see happen, other than a full stop to the fighting?
