[drankl]

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[dang]

We've banned this account for using HN primarily (exclusively?) for ideological battle and ignoring our request to stop.

(This is not a comment on the current topic. It's about a pattern of account usage that we don't allow here, regardless of topic and regardless of political affiliation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.)

[palata]

> This seems practically impossible

What does? They have recognised Palestine in practice, it's done. Therefore it was possible.

[AaronAPU]

There seems to be an important distinction between “recognizing” a thing and that thing existing in the myriad of real ways the “recognition” would imply.

I’d imagine the parent post is referencing this distinction.

[drankl]

To quote the British Prime Minister, the purpose of recognising a Palestinian state comprising both Gaza and the West Bank is to "revive the hope of peace and a two-state solution".

But how can that work in practice when the stated aim of Hamas is to eradicate Israel? It seems that removal of Hamas from power in Gaza would be a prerequisite.

[SilverElfin]

Israel is fighting a war of self defense. If they wanted to eradicate the people calling themselves “Palestinian”, which isn’t a real legitimate identity (they’re just Islamic Arabs occupying the land), they could have done so in the first week of the conflict. Israel has done far more to avoid unnecessary deaths than any other country would in the same situation.

[wqaatwt]

As horrible and utterly inexcusable as it is it will take a very long while to accomplish that at the current rate.

If Hamas had the military capacity that Israel has, millions would already be dead.

Of course having different standards for an (supposedly) democratic state and a murderous death cult obviously makes sense.