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…and that’s why the person you originally replied to asked their question. General popularity is generally a bad proxy metric for personal preference.

Is it impossible to like things outside the mainstream?

Probably needs a UN peace keeping force.

…but Hamas is also a political entity and the government of Palestine. Sanctions would matter if Gaza wasn’t already blockaded by Israel.

Trials in the Hague followed by imprisonment of all those guilty of war crimes. At this point that Includes most IDF members, their leaders, and the government.

Actually bring consequences to bear and let other Israelis know that this isn’t acceptable. Israel also needs to be cut off from the teat of the American military industrial complex.

Same standards for Hamas, but that’s a much smaller number.

Any further sabre rattling is met with quick and strong sanctions.

Basically the UN needs to do it’s job, but that needs America not to veto.

So attack Hamas, not just whoever you can find that looks like them.

Israel was created by UN resolution 181, not the British.

I’ve noted over the past few years, how any company that invests in R&D rather than pays dividends is labelled as “loss making” by the press.

No, because I used the web before web search. It’s a convenient thing. Not a necessary thing.

i.e. where it all began

Easy to say when someone isn’t forcing you to leave your home, but kettling you in an area 25x4 miles.

Whilst the British were in control, the partition plan was very much an international idea, and the British were long gone by the time of the founding of the Israeli state.

To say that Israelis aren’t the only people needing protection.

Excalidraw is my favourite. Make diagrams look like sketches so that people don’t take them too seriously.