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mickeycrimm
There are 9 million Israeli citizens. 2 million of them are arab with 1.5 million being palestinian. Don't sound much like apartheid to me.
The Saudi's get to walk away from Israel? Where did you get that one? The Saudi Prince was on Fox News just a few weeks ago saying they and the Israeli's are "getting closer every day."
The Saudi's and Iranians have been fighting proxy wars for 50 years. It's heated up in the last several years. They are enemies. Iranian proxy's have recently attacked Saudi oil storage facilities. The Saudi's, and the other Arab countries, need Israel.
I'm not sure where you got those numbers, but this is the most up to date estimate from our state department:
"The U.S. government estimates the total Palestinian population at 3 million in the West Bank and 2 million in the Gaza Strip (midyear 2022)."
The 1.6 million you are referring to are the older estimates of Palestinians that are Israeli citizens that live in Israel outside of those areas. This population is estimated now to be around 2 million. The combined estimates are over 7.5 million, meaning Palestinians are actually the ethnic majority in what is known as Israel.
Israel is essentially put in a no win situation long term. Flattening Gaza is obviously not the right move, but I'm not sure what else they are supposed to do without risking countless soldiers in an urban warfare setting if they don't flatten it. By the end of day one our media was blaming this on Iran. This is 15 straight years of a Zionist push to invading Persia. There are a lot of dominoes that could fall this time leading to it actually happening. All we need is Netanyahu to pull a Bush/Iraq scenario and here we go.