It is wonderful that a temporary pause was taken on Israel's destruction of Gaza in order that some prisoners be swapped. This should continue. But humanity also demands that Israel's brutal assault on Gaza not be continued. Palestinians must not be expelled from any part of Gaza, which is their homeland under international law. US should not be sending more weapons to Israel until Israel complies with international law, which it has not been doing since US recognized Israel in 1948--despite the immediately preceding ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians--and before that had been resolved. Now we are faced with a second ethnic cleansing of even larger numbers, and genocidal statements and plans from Israeli leaders.
Israel must withdraw from all occupied territories and remove all sea blockades from Gaza. That is the minimum that international law requires. Until then, Israel should not get another dime from USA. As long as it is occupying another nation, Israel does not have a right to self defense against that nation being occupied.
A preferable outcome to the 2-state-solution would be the elimination of all ethnic discrimination in all of Israel and Palestine as one nation, with right of return for Palestinians at least as comprehensive as that for Jews. International law does not yet demand that, though most Palestinians and many Israelis and other Jews understand that approach is the best one, and possibly the only achievable one at this time. The idea of an ethnic state is fundamentally an antiquated and terrible one, and even moreso if it is built on the backs of millions of displaced people with nowhere to go.
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