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It looks like you may get your wish. Israel seems to want to level Gaza City and remove all Palestinians from the land. As far as Saudi Arabia siding with Israel, I think that alliance says it all. You may want to look up the term 'wahhabi' before you get all giddy about the Saudis.
I'm not getting all giddy about the Saudis and I know about their involvement in 9/11 attacks, but Israel could use any ally that it can get at this point.
Perhaps Israel should look to Hamas for support as it was the Mossad that helped create Hamas.
Is it that they want to eliminate Israel or is it that they want to eliminate Israel as a Jewish state (with all other none Jews governed by different set of laws?)
This is a scandalous comment :the Palestinians are reacting to a decade long oppression.Israel keeps stealing land and houses , not to mention the prison called 'Gaza'.
Of course historically this has happened repetitively to indigenous people all over the world, especially in Canada, Mexico and America. The tactics at the time included isolationism, cultural destruction as seen through residential schools, reserves and assimilation laws. There was a never a fight to begin with, no rockets, just a slow grinding genocide. The world is very used to building walls and words like genocide, isolation and occupation. Usually what ends up happening is that one side ultimately disappears, dissolves or is crushed.
Of course historically this has happened repetitively to indigenous people all over the world, especially in Canada, Mexico and America. The tactics at the time included isolationism, cultural destruction as seen through residential schools, reserves and assimilation laws. There was a never a fight to begin with, no rockets, just a slow grinding genocide. The world is very used to building walls and words like genocide, isolation and occupation. Usually what ends up happening is that one side ultimately disappears, dissolves or is crushed.
Here's an interesting visual timeline of the creation and destruction of nations:
Now the oldest hate on planet earth, after the hatred of women, is anti-semitism. In every corner of the world you can find someone desecrating Jewish graves, or fire-bombing synagogues the same way North Americans seem to like firebombing mosques. Palestinian youth, like Israeli youth are taught to hate each other from the get go. This conflict will not come right ever, as the history of eliminating the space for a people to live will always breed more violence. Look at how pockmarked Palestine has become - what is the agenda here? It certainly isn't to stop building settlements, unless you're living on the side where you can't even get concrete in your country to build homes & an economy. And because of your history, any concrete smuggled in is going to be used to build tunnels to store weapons. Thus in turn results in your neighbourhood being bombed out of existence.
You can see Palestine dissolving more clearly up above. While I don't support terrorism, occupation, walls or placing military weapons in neighborhoods as a strategy, I do understand what the strategies of the desperate look like. In this case mutually assured destruction is inevitable. The Palestinians will one day become an entirely displaced people, the way that Jewish peoples were once displaced, and then Israel will in turn have to live with owning that history, the way that Germany owns their holocaust.
