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Please don't forget that in order to achieve the above with Germany, we, the Allies, also ethnically cleansed Poland, (old and new territories), Russia (Konigsberg/Kaliningrad, Don Region, Volga Region), Rumania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Bulgaria, of well over 97% of all Germans living in those territories. That cleansing, between 1945-1948 amounted to over 12 million people - the vast, vast, vast majority innocent civilians.Well, last time about 80 years ago we had to defeat them militarily and occupy their country for a while. But part of that was also rebuilding said country (that we had done quite a number on- with good reason), prosecuting those guilty of war crimes, and reintegrating them into the developed world.
Not to say that Gaza is an analogous challenge to post-war Germany. Some aspects of it are much harder.
But when an entire population is essentially ghettoized and forgotten about at best or treated as totally worthless and disposable at worst, absolutely there is going to be an enduring challenge of angry young men growing up with little to live for. Then, they’re easily convinced they could have something to die for.
By invading and occupying, Israel has essentially taken on the responsibility to look after these couple million people, even as they weed out the evil and malevolent among them. I hope they have a plan. Gaza was already a hellhole, but now it’s so very much worse. And whether you like it or not, there absolutely are a lot of innocent civilians stuck in the middle of this. As you yourself point out, nobody will take them, so the few million can’t really help but be caught between the rock and hard place that is the IDF and some 30,000-odd Hamas fighters.
If the IDF kills off say 20,000 of the 30,000 odd Hama fighters, will the remaining 2 million Gazan's over throw the remaining 10,000 Hama fighters? Does the IDF have to kill off 25,000 Hama fighters for this to occur? What if the IDF kills off 28,000 of the 30,000 odd Hama fighters, will the 2million Gazan's chose a better form of government? Will they go back to Fatah?
Hat's off to the PLO/Fatah organization for keeping a pretty low profile during all of this current fight. Are they quietly biding their time to re-assert control over Gaza?