Comment by ceejayoz

1 month ago

> you need to explain why Gaza was not attacked in the 20 years prior to Oct 7

Is this a joke?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_War_(2008%E2%80%932009)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2012_Gaza%E2%80%93Israel...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Gaza_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Gaza_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2018_Gaza%E2%80%93Isr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2019_Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2019_Gaza%E2%80%93Isr...

(and another dozen or so in the list on Wikipedia)

> If you think that Israel always intended to occupy Gaza, you also need to explain why they withdrew from it in 2003.

I would note that the current PM of Israel resigned in protest when that happened.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/international/middleeast/...

I’m aware of those times but none of them are comparable to the most recent war.

I don’t think your point about Netanyahu contradicts mine. I was talking about Israeli policy, not what he would have preferred that policy to be.