Kepabar

Something like that, yes.

No, what Israel is doing makes sense from a strictly selfish point of view.

The question of 'Why doesn't Israel integrate the Palestinians?' is a good one. The answer is numbers.

Israel was founded as a Jewish ethnostate. Those who have immigrated there have done so because they wanted to live in a Jewish ethnostate. So one of the core values of the country is that it is primarily a place for Jews.

If Israel absorbed the populations of Gaza and the West Bank into Israel, the Jewish population would become a minority in Israel if not immediately then within a generation.

I don't agree with the idea of ethnostates in general and I do believe establishing Israel as one was a mistake.

... But if you imagine the viewpoint of someone who does want a Jewish ethnostate like so many in Israel you can see why this solution is a non starter.

Headline is still accurate.

Target practice a battle does not make.

I've gone to playing Project 1999, an OG EverQuest emulator server.

It's only up to velious and it's as close to how the game was back then as you can get.

I don't recommend it to people who never played EQ back in the day - games have changed far too much for this ancient game to be fun for most people who don't have nostalgia for that era of gaming.

But sounds like you might, so I thought I'd suggest it to you.

alot of ppl on fedi are privacy-oriented and focused

I'm aware. I'm just reminding you that most outside the fediverse aren't.

Tell that to the dude who will probably never have a partner.

Not everyone cares so much about that.

Someone knowing things about me in general is not a big deal.

Yes, they exist, but then so do lesbian women.

The existence of homosexuality doesn't make the gender imbalance any less painful.****

I was pointing out that this statement you made:
Gaza has a majortiy of Muslims but never rejected "citizenship" to Jews or Christians.

Is very, very wrong.

I'm not sure this is correct in respect to Gaza.

The requirements for citizenship under pre-hamas in Gaza is your father must be an Palestinian Arab. There is no naturalization process that allows you to bypass this requirement. That is the definition of an ethnostate.

While I can't find any record on if Hamas changed the law, I highly doubt they did considering their political stance.

Realistically a governments first responsibility before anything else is the physical safety of it's citizenship.

If you know a percentage of a population are religious extremists which will never integrate into your society and will probably pose a risk, then how can you, as a government, take them in?

It's a hard sell any way you slice it.