The complicated realities of peace in the Israel-Hamas war that protesters need to realize.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/05/peace-in-israel-is-elusive-it-defies.html

It was the major world powers, primarily the UK and US, who opened the door to the influx of Jewish immigration into Palestine following the Second World War and the aftermath of the Holocaust, and it has been the United States who has taken over the role of the pre-war British Empire in terms of influencing world politics. So the first question is whether the United States, who is the chief financial supporter of Israel, has the ability to pressure the Israeli government into taking the initiative to make peace and making the sacrifices required to achieve it. There is no question that the United States has the power to make this happen, but with our political situation being what it is at the moment, the question is whether our politicians will do it.

We've facilitated Middle Eastern peace between Israel and its neighbors before. President Jimmy Carter brokered the biggest peace deal to date when he got Israel and Egypt to the negotiating table at
Camp David and facilitated that peace deal, which still holds. It will depend on the leadership of the Democratic party to make this happen, since the GOP does not recognize the legitimacy of any Palestinian claim or sovereignty.

So, to those of you protesting Israel's destruction of Gaza, keep that in mind when the November election rolls around. If you really are interested in the people of Gaza, and in pressuring the US to put a stop to the destructive bombing and killing, staying home because Biden hasn't jumped to your command or voting for Trump out of protest will definitely affect the ability of the US to pressure Israel into making peace. It will lead to the complete destruction of Gaza and the loss of any hope for the Palestinian people in Gaza or the West Bank.

It's not anti-Semitic to protest against Israel's attack on Gaza. At this point, six months since the brutal attack on Israel, and the murder of over a thousand Israelis that resulted, Hamas has not surrendered, been captured, or been eliminated as an opponent to an independent and sovereign state of Israel. It's becoming pretty clear that's not going to happen. The result of the war has been the murder of over 30,000 civilians, a small percentage of whom were military combatants or terrorists, the majority of whom were innocent civilians who happened to get in the way of the fighting and bombing. Being opposed to that, to the point of protesting against it, doesn't constitute a denial of the right of Israel to exist.