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View: https://twitter.com/afalkhatib/status/1778091206775648743

Unfortunately for Gazans, Hamas continues to display ruthless disregard for its own people’s well-being. The Islamist terror group appears solely focused on its operational and tactical survival, regardless of the strategic consequences of its actions or the damage it inflicts on the Palestinian cause. Until Gaza can find a viable alternative to Hamas’s rule, it will struggle to distribute humanitarian aid, reestablish public safety, and repair its battered infrastructure.

The arrogant intransigence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has refused to accept pragmatic proposals such as the reintroduction of a reformed and improved Palestinian Authority, presents a significant obstacle. Furthermore, despite a ferocious military campaign that has destroyed most of Gaza, which Hamas’s Health Ministry estimates has killed more than 33,000 people, Hamas has demonstrated an uncanny resilience and ability to persevere. As the IDF withdrew its troops from different parts of Gaza in recent months, remnants of Hamas reconstituted and recongregated in vacated spaces, even firing a few rockets toward Israel. The group’s negotiating position on a cease-fire deal has only hardened in recent months.

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My conversations gave me hope that it is possible to challenge preconceived notions through persistent engagement. However, revising deeply held beliefs that undermine healing, coexistence, reconciliation, and peace will be an immense and difficult undertaking. This war has made it abundantly clear that Palestinians and Arabs on one side, and Israelis on the other, live in parallel worlds that are informed by entirely disconnected sets of facts, reducing their ability to find common ground or pragmatic solutions. Even people who dislike and despise Hamas struggle, for a variety of reasons, to reconcile their own sense of historical injustice with what a resolution to the conflict would entail.

The war in Gaza has worsened already deep fissures between the Palestinians and the Israelis and their respective allies. We need to stop the war, free all the Israeli hostages, address the humanitarian crisis, and initiate political transformation in Gaza to prevent Hamas from remaining in power. That will require both sides to recognize their mutual humanity and commit to building a shared future, because the Palestinians and the Israelis are both here to stay. They must abandon their zero-sum thinking, and instead pursue partnership and cooperation.

For the Palestinians, this will require abandoning unrealistic goals, violent resistance, and incendiary rhetoric, all of which have failed them for 75 years. For the Israelis, it will require acknowledging that they cannot achieve lasting safety and security through military force, occupation, settlement expansion, separation walls, or denial of the historic injustices inflicted upon the Palestinian people.
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Probably a good time to remind the world of this thing that happend one time.

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Operation Praying Mantis - Wikipedia

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Operation Praying Mantis was the 18 April 1988 attack by the United States on Iranian naval targets in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for the mining of a U.S. warship four days earlier.
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By the end of the operation, US Marines and US Navy ships and aircraft had destroyed Iranian naval and intelligence facilities on two inoperable oil platforms in the Persian Gulf, and sunk at least three armed Iranian speedboats, one Iranian frigate, and one fast attack gunboat. One other Iranian frigate was damaged in the battle.[15]
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This took 8 hours.
 
Wayward DP said:

View: https://twitter.com/academic_la/status/1778468071981920709
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zeke said:
can you confirm her interpretation is correct?

the "new" numbers do make more sense at least.
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Can't confirm anything, just posted it as an additional data point. I don't trust figures from either side though Hamas has earned zero benefit of the doubt. In a situation this chaotic, it may not be possible to get accurate numbers at all.
 
It’s not correct. It’s the total death count where they can confirm the name, number, DOB, and death date.

So it doesn’t necessarily mean that only 21k died, that’s just the number they have all the info for. But it also could mean that.
 
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