How do you declare war on a state you don’t recognize?
Ask “Drugs.”
Also “Terror.”
I had a scary dream last night but America didn’t invade Iraq over it.
Try having an oily dream, they’ll be on you in a minute
Not yet.
Not sure if you’re trying to be clever? You can start a war against anyone or anything.
You can attack anyone or anything but formal declarations of war are usually state actions.
I guess I’m partly being clever and pointing out that Israel is waving this word “war” around very generously right now, because they’re always dramatizing the direness of their situation, mainly for the American audience. But technically they shouldn’t be using this word unless they recognize the state of Palestine, which they have historically refused to do.
So, as usual, they’re trying to have it both ways.
I’m not sure I understand. Does war declaration being a state action require recognition the state of Palestine? Or can they declare war on “Hamas” or any other entity/group of people. Or do they even have to state who they are at war against? Can they just say “we are at war”?
I can’t read the article (I just get an HTTP 403 “Forbidden”, interesting) but Israel had previously talked about declaring war on Hamas itself.
This isnt a gotcha. Israel does not recognize the legitimacy of the Palestinian state, but they don’t like, pretend it doesn’t nominally exist. If Hamas considers themselves a legitimate government, they can be declared war against. They’re not legitimate, but they still exist.
As an easy example in the US, everyone in the country doubted the legitimacy of the “Autonomous Zone” in Portland, and yet it very definitely was a thing.
…take the War on Christmas, for example
Invade Crimea?
It’s a not-so-civil war, if you will
Show me a civil war and I’ll show you a friendly murder.
Ask Hamas.
They didn’t issue a formal declaration of war.
Wikipedia:
Oh, I do apologize. You are correct. They didn’t declare war. They declared jihad.
My mistake.
Bonus:
There’s only one point under discussion here: Israel is calling this a declaration of war after years of refusing to acknowledge Palestinian statehood.
That means they’re playing the optics for a western audience in a self serving, hypocritical way. And geez it might take me an entire bathroom sit to assemble a list of more.
Hamas doesn’t have a PR strategy for the west. They’re just attacking. It’s not right but at least it’s not theater.
Let the American audience understand when they are being played to.
Israel accepted the original plan to have an independent Palestinian state. Palestine rejected it and started the 1947 civil war in an attempt to exterminate the Jews living there.
The borders of the state of Palestine would be “based on the pre-1967 borders”. The latest resolution, in November 2013, was passed 165 to 6, with 6 abstentions;[5] with Israel and the United States voting against.[6]
The Palestinian leadership has embraced the concept since the 1982 Arab Summit in Fez.[7] Israel views moves by Palestinian leaders to obtain international recognition of a State of Palestine as being unilateral action by the Palestinians and inconsistent with a negotiated two-state solution.
LOL downvoting a direct quote. That’s rich.
That means they’re playing the optics for a western audience in a self serving, hypocritical way. … Hamas doesn’t have a PR strategy for the west. They’re just attacking. It’s not right but at least it’s not theater.
I’m less worried about the hypocrisy and theatrics, than I am about civilian deaths.
But you do you.
You should be, because the u.s. will use this theater to justify sending huge amounts of military aid to Israel to level Gaza. Fuck Hamas but the u.s. sending more weapons over isn’t going to help this situation.
Gaza is something like 300km^2. Israel has more than enough to level it a thousand times over. They have hundreds of artillery pieces, hundreds of fighters, an entire navy, something like a thousand tanks, …
Hell, given they likely have hundreds of nukes, they could level the entire middle-east and end global civilisation as we know it.
The US giving Israel more military aid now, is politics. Not much more.
We don’t get many declarations of war these days. Usually they are just special military actions, or security operations, or something like that. What makes this different?
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Fairly certain they got the governments they elected.
Probably something about an outright attack against civilians for literally no fucking reason… ya know just “gotta not let them kill us” kinda reasons?
There’s also a decent chance they actually have some sort of government structure that doesnt allow military spending of certain types without a declaration of war.
Israel is constantly catastrophizing their situation to win sympathy and demonize their enemy. Usually they try to avoid this kind of language because, being the only ones with an organized military, it would be a bad look to be at war with a bunch of refugees. But since they’ve been attacked they’re doing everything they can to paint that attack in the most bombastic terms possible 1) to win sympathy and 2) to justify the military devastation they are about to unleash on a civilian population.
Following our decades-long invasion of Palestine and continually calling for Palestine’s removal and the genocide of the Palestinian people, we are now calling it war.
Damn, maybe palestine should have accepted the two state plan in 1947 instead of trying to eliminate all Israeli Jews at the time.
Israel accepted it. Palestine started killing civilians. Then got their asses handed to them repeatedly.
You have to understand though, prior to the UN proposal, it was all just Palestine. Why should the Palestinians have accepted a UN (foreign, primarily western at the time) proposal to give half of their land to a minority who only began immigrating there en masse in the last 50 years? This was the period of decolonization, and while the rest of the Arab world and Africa was gaining their independence, Palestine was just getting a new map drawn on them by their western colonizers.
It’s easy to say with another 70 years of perspective that it didn’t work out for them, but in 1947 Israel was nothing more than an idea championed by a minority of religious extremists, viewed as terrorists even in the west.
Prior to the UN proposal it was a British territory. Before that it was part of the Ottoman Empire.
Palestine has never existed as an independent state.
Correct. However it was never israels. Can we at least agree on that?
Depends on how long you go back. It was Israel/Judea for over 1000 years before the Arab Conquest forced Jews to be scattered to the winds in the first place.
Wow, how gracious of israel, with the backing of the most powerful militaries in the world arrayed against a country without significant military allies, to nominally agree to a two-state plan and then for 75 years violate treaties, kill civilians and constantly invade the other state that essentially can’t fight back.
Super brave of them to constantly show force with the US military backing them.
I’m sure Israel appreciates you admiring their genocide.
what if u were israel
should israel just let palestine attack and have israel intentionally hold back the fact they are much more powerful? if you poke a bear and get mauled do we blame the bear?
in america we would likely blame the bear but folks dont get consequences now.
Wow all over the wrong map. No, in American wildlife conservation and training, the wild animal is not blamed because humans have the ability to plan and reason and animals have an extremely limited ability to plan and reason and are practically only able to react.
You compare Israel to a mindless beast without the ability to plan or reason, ignoring that Israel has been invading Palestine for 75 years, carrying out a obvious territorial expansion “plan” according to their"reason"(I want it and I am stronger than you).
You’re incorrect that Israel is doing this as mindless reactionaries, But you’re probably making that assumption because as an American you are trained to be reactionary and hold knee-jerk reactions in high regard.
A bunch of Saudi Arabians bombed your New York! Quick, let’s invade several unrelated countries! How reasonable. What a good plan. 80% approval ratings.
This declaration of war, if followed through, is a continuation of the systematic territorial invasion and execution of Palestinian civilians that has been going on for most of a century.
It’s just going to happen faster now.
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Gaza was doomed anyway. The West Bank was also doomed. Any land that the far-right fascists in Israel have their eyes on is doomed because they have the full force of the west backing them (no matter if they pretend to wag their finger at them from time to time) and they’ve got other countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia backing them. The plan all along was to take the land and it was only a matter of time. GG, enjoy your ethnostate, fascists.
Enjoy it but the trouble is, we in the US have those assholes occasionally wagging a finger, while scooping every public dollar into buckets to shower on these Israeli assholes while they scream about wokeness and gay folk and trans folk and who’s bathroom is who’s….all the while actively trying to bring about a holy war they think will bring jeebus back or whatever.
Radical religious terrorism is the thing that will keep us from reaching the stars. We’re not ready for other cultures when we can’t even manage our own
The US has to side with Israel on an ideological level because it is just as culpable for what it did to the indigenous inhabitants of North America who lived there first.
Will people stop using war crimes so flippantly.
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It’s a shame humanity hasn’t learned more from the last century, this one wasn’t supposed to be a sequel.
War continues but the scale really is miniscule compared to the 1900s.
26,000 American soldiers died in 36 days of fighting on Iwo Jima.
1900 Americans were killed in 20 years in Afghanistan.
I don’t minimize any deaths here, but the direction the numbers are going in gives me hope for the future, not despair.
The post 9/11 wars resulted in the deaths of nearly 1 million people
Yes civilian deaths were higher. But military deaths are able to be counted more reliably so they are easier to compare.
Estimates are that 38 million civilians died in WW2, so there you go. That number is way higher too.
Oh so if you just don’t count civilians your original statement seems true. I’m sure the million dead are consoled by that.
Nearly half of those are civilians… war sucks no matter how we look at it.
Always is.
404?
Nope
Good! I hope they wipe Gaza off of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and their supporters once and for all.
I’m sure more bombing will solve this problem once and for all. It always worked so well in the past.
Hey guys while you’re at it do this dude too, since they’re reveling in the death that is to come.
