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It’s a fucking genocide and you’re offering a shoulder shrug and an “oh well” at best, and a “well my family says they deserve it” at worst?!?
And what do you propose we do? Attack Israel?
In that same post I said genocide was "unacceptable". But I also see the reality that this -as it stands today, and a few decades prior- is intractable. If you have a solution, you'll get a Nobel Peace Prize for sure. I admit I don't have one. I'm also not willing to bomb Israel back to the stone age to stop the genocide (trading one genocide for another isn't a "win").
The shrug, “it’s intractable”, stance is no different than the passivity and denial of Americans who shrugged at the Nazis Jewish policy in the thirties.
Hindsight is 20/20. We arguably should have gone into Germany and crushed the Reich (not that the other western powers were military leviathans, so it would have been non-trivial). They didn't know WWII was coming down the pike. However, we did more than "shrug". We pulled a Trump, and actually denied Jewish refugees from Europe (ref: the SS St Louis). I suspect that in May 1939, people probably knew a war was coming (Germany invaded Poland in September). But Americans didn't care (and wouldn't enter the war for over two years after that). And antisemitism was rife. So the SS St Louis was turned away, in classic Trump style (i.e. I'm sure he would have approved).
But that's a tangent. I'm not "shrugging". I just don't have a solution that isn't at least as bad (if not worse) than the current situation. The best bet I can see is getting the UN in there, just like they went into Serbia/Bosnia/Herzegovena. But Israel is no Serbia, and would probably mandate an actual invasion to accomplish this (Serbia was militarily no match). Which, again, leads to lots of dead people.
