• Cleverdawny
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    If Hamas surrenders the blockade can end and Gaza can have an economic future - if, that is, the people of Gaza put a group interested in building that future into power and not another group interested in genocidal conquest of Israel.

    That’s happening on top of their debt crisis and economic troubles! Even if Egypt never gets involved, Israel’s war might destabilize Egypt itself. Oops!

    You’re right about the debt crisis within Egypt, but likely what’s going to happen there is that the IMF will bail them out with the condition that the military owned enterprises which the state subsidizes will be privatized. They’re a serious source of economic malaise, as is the construction of the new administrative capital. The most serious threats here to Egyptian stability is if there is actually a major refugee influx, which would strain the state, and if the economic problems form a tipping point into a depression for the country.

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      If Hamas surrenders the blockade can end and Gaza can have an economic future - if, that is, the people of Gaza put a group interested in building that future into power and not another group interested in genocidal conquest of Israel.

      That’s a bold lie. Gaza has never had an economic future, just like the West Bank. It’s been a doomed ghetto and the only future it has with Israel is complete resettlement.

      Also, cool racism.

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        What fuckin racism? I don’t blame their race for the Gazans people having made stupid decisions as to who they should have as their government. Plenty of people of any race make stupid decisions - the Israelis elected Netanyahu, Americans elected Trump, for instance. Course, neither of those calamities compares to electing literal genocidal maniacs committed to a war of national suicide, but it’s hard to find something dumber than voting for Hamas.

        And there are plenty of small countries which do well economically. Gaza could be one of them, with leaders who cared about their populace as more than human shields and PR opportunities.

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          You’re playing into the very classic anti-Arab racism of them all being stupid savages. They’re just backwards monsters that want to kill all the infidels, right?

          You’re exactly who Israel is targeting when they make up shit about Hamas beheading 40 babies and raping women and girls. It’s pure racism.

          And there are plenty of small countries which do well economically.

          Israel controls all imports and exports so that’s literally impossible. Israel controls their fuel, their power, their water, their food, their medicine, everything. How are you this ignorant?

          It’s not a country, it’s a concentration camp.

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            First of all, the population of Gaza after 1967 was appropriate to a highly populated urban area. It’s no one’s fault that the population has ballooned since then. Second, there’s no way to describe electing people determined to start a war with Israel by murdering civilians as anything other than barbarous and stupid.

            Israel controls all imports and exports so that’s literally impossible.

            Sure, they do. Because the entire place is run by Hamas.

            I wonder what would happen if people who gave a shit were handed power by the people.

            Backwards monsters who want to kill the infidels

            There is no good faith way to describe Hamas otherwise. IDGAF what their race is. I don’t blame the German race or whatever for Nazis, but I do describe Nazism as a barbarous ideology and Nazis as bloodthirsty lunatics. The only thing separating Hamas from Nazis is a lack of both competence and the opportunity to make their conquests and find their victims.