The first 14 movies were pretty good, but when they announced Matthew Broderick would not be coming back to reprise his role as Hank's Pakistani Uber driver in the Funhole+ sitcom spinoff, I knew the good times were over.
Agreed, they've been acting like bullies since they originally took land from others to establish their country. Believe whatever you like in the privacy of your own thoughts, but using some old book as an excuse to displace and kill others makes them the bad guys here. Why are they surprised that retaliation has happened
Go back in time 20 years and make better policy decisions that would have prevented such an extremist government from taking power in Gaza. [0].
Or, go back in time several months and back off on the Gaza offensive before Hezbolla felt compelled to get involved.
That might sound like a bunch of hindsight. However, today is 20 years ago in 2044. The decisions Israel is making now are setting the stage for its future security challenges.
Today might also be the several months ago for Iran getting involved directly. Given how constrained they have been up to this point, the way to avoid it is clear: deascalate the conflict; Iran has no desire to start a war with you, stop giving ammunition to the forces that want them to declare war on you [1].
I will grant that policy solutions take time. However, Israel has time. Prior to October 7th, they were in a holding pattern with everyone but Hamas. There were still tensions and security concerns, but no one was interested in poking at it. Further, Israel was building relationships with its neighboors in an anti-Iran block which is critical for its long term security.
This leaves just the question of how to deal with Gaza. Again, a long term solution requires long term policy. In the immediate after math and commision of the October 7 attack, I have no objectification to the responce. An accute military threat requires an accute response.
However, it is important to remember that the only reason the October 7 attack succeeded was a massive on the part of the IDF. This means that once the accute attack was resolved, Israel could have simply fixed its defenses and then would have had time to pursue different policies that would gradually lower tensions and might eventually lead to actual peace.
[0] I'm not going to go over 20 years of policy blunders here. But they include rather explicitly propping up and legitimizing Hamas at the expense of more moderate factions.
[1] Note that one of those forces is Netenyahu, who has been trying to start a war with Iran for years. Although the bigger issue for Iran is loosing the respect of its regional proxies.
I know there are a lot of anxious content creator adepts, who struggle to find the right formula, this is mainly supposed to help them. Veterans of content creation are of course encouraged to supply their own insects, but in the very least this might alleviate the annoyance from having to find 2 instances of the same country.
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