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This is an opportunity for Israel to reverse course. They can blame everything on Netanyahu, throw him out of office, stop all attacks into Gaza, stop depriving Gaza of food and water, and start deliberately working with respected members of the Gaza community to help build local businesses. They can make an international call to all successful Palestinians around the world to bring their business back to Gaza. Make it like when Israel was formed--a call to build something good for their ethnicity.

Honestly this could be a really great thing for the region. It could be an opportunity to shift blame from an entire ethnicity, the Jews, onto a single member of that ethnicity, in order to let the Jews and Palestinians be at peace with each other.

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* There isn't blame on an entire ethnicity regardless of the outcome of this case. I don't think you want to open that pandora box.

* Ironically, Bibi will be temporarily strengthened. No sane Israeli leader would want to depose him and risk being seen as collaborating with the warrant or risk getting a warrant too later on. Over time Bibi will still inevitably be replaced (too many reasons for Israelis to hate him), but this may stretch to 2025.

* Israel allowed aid since the beginning and especially recently. Warrants will help focus the mind here.

* Result of US elections big key here.

> The U.N. says at least 500 trucks a day of aid and commercial goods need to enter Gaza. In April, an average of 189 trucks entered a day - the highest since the war started.[0]

0. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/aid-trucks-begin-m...

'_and commercial goods_.'

There's no right for 'commercial goods'. The only issue in question is food, and trucks with food going in are twice the prewar level (the rest was mostly construction goods used for we know what exactly - that's not gonna go in).

What would clothes be categorised? Medical supplies? Only food? Sanitary napkins? Shoes? Israel doesn't need to provide this, just let what is needed for 2 million people to live given by the whole world.

Yeah, of course medical supplies count, I'm just saying there's no right for commercial traffic per se - the prewar count had a lot of stuff that's not relevant. The typical procedure is that Israel inspects the cargo and allows stuff not in a dual use list.

Who writes the list? Can their definition of dual use be relied upon to not be self serving?

Given the people in question are the ones with a vested interest in stamping out as much life as possible, I find it difficult to believe that this is even a tenable stop point for cognitive processing for anyone but someone who couldn't be bothered one way or the other.

I'm not sure that'd be enough to shift the blame from all members of the state of Israel to only the PM. There's just way too many videos floating around the social media of IDF soldiers actively and happily celebrating the genocide in a playful and careless manner, and Israeli civilians wishing only more starvation and pain upon the already starving residents of Gaza.

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