Man, seriously, what the hell are you talking about? I acknowledged that Israel withdrew. This is an indisputable fact. I disputed the notion that his was a sincere attempt at coexistence.
If I were to steal 80% of your home, then give 10% back because it was convenient for me in solidifying my hold of the other 70%, that is not a good faith attempt to coexist or resolve your very reasonable objection to my occupation of your home.
Nor am I sure why you're counting the number of words in my paragraphs. Is this really what passes for argumentation in your mind? If you found it particularly challenging or noteworthy to deal with a sixty-word paragraph, perhaps that's why you know so little about the conflict we're discussing. Sorry, this is a long and complex issue. Reading beyond Twitter is occasionally going to be necessary.
My references to the Quran and the Torah were simply to highlight that both Muslims and Jews in the region believe ridiculous, evil things based on magical claims in dusty books. Yes, I happily admit my inability to read the minds of the people in Hamas and Likud. So I can't say with certainty what they believe. Your apparent belief that you can read minds is not the win you seem to think it is.
Yes, there are obviously antisemitic extremists in Hamas and Palestinian society. I have no problem acknowledging that. But you, sadly, refuse to acknowledge the racist extremism in Likud and Israeli society. I can inundate you with evidence of Israelis laughing as they call for a 2nd Nakba, mocking the suffering of Palestinian mothers and children, of Israeli journalists openly calling for genocide to the cheers of their audiences, of IDF soldiers casually admitting to killing innocent civilians, of Israeli children, so radicalised by hate that they shout "death to Arabs" in the streets. If I were intellectually lazy enough to hold the whole of Israeli society culpable for these extremists, well, I'd be you.
So yes, you can continue to assert that Hamas is an existential threat, but that doesn't change the fact that, for reasons I've already explained, they're not. And my reference to the West Bank was to illustrate the very obvious fact that Netanyahu's actions are not about safety from the "existential threat" Hamas poses or freeing the hostages, because neither of these are relevant to the West Bank. They're about the same thing that the majority of Israeli leaders, and Netanyahu in particular, have been about since the beginning: taking over all of "Eretz Yisrael" and ethnically cleansing any non-Jews they find there.
If you think Palestinians are foreign invaders and European Jews and settlers are indigenous, you are a moron. But sadly, I don't think you are, I think you're being deliberately disingenuous, which is far worse.
