Mearsheimer also makes the case that it simply won't work as he doesn't believe there's a military solution here: "I don't think that [Israel] can beat Hamas on the battlefield and even if [they] do some other group will come to take their place. And I don't believe you... can beat the Palestinians into submission." Instead he says "what you have to do is come up with a political solution", which everyone "fully understands" is the 2-state solution. However he says "the Israelis have - except on one occasion - never been really interested in even trying to achieve a 2-state solution."show more

John Mearsheimer - undoubtedly the most renowned International Relations scholar in the world today - on Gaza: Israel is "waging a punishment campaign in Gaza, they are punishing the civilian population... The Israelis are interested in causing a huge amount of destruction in Gaza and in the process they are going to kill huge numbers of civilians... It seems to me that when you do that you're committing war crimes. If the Israelis were going to great length to target just Hamas and avoid civilian casualties then you could make a coherent argument that this is not a case of them committing war crimes but they're not doing that, they're purposely tearing the place apart. This is a massive punishment campaign. Furthermore at the same time they've cut off all food, water and gas to Gaza and this means that in effect they're going to end up starving out, or trying to starve out, the civilian population in Gaza. By my understanding of international law, this too is a war crime." He also says the U.S. is "definitely complicit" in those war crimes.

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2 State solution is no solution— gives everything of value to one group, claims it is separate but equal. Morally repugnant. #EndApartheid don’t enshrine it. #CeasefireNOW

OMG 😟😟😟 is this true?

🇷🇺fought a bitter war with Chechnya.🇷🇺won and then rebuilt Chechnya. Compare Grozny during the war and now a beautiful rebuilt city and prosperous. Chechens now even fight for🇷🇺.🇮🇱needs to uplift Palestinians and treat them as equal human beings, not as animals in cages.

The 'two-state' solution was forced on Palestine by the US & Israel, and neither has any desire to implement it. The only solution is a state where both Jews and Arabs live. However, 100,000s of current 'Israelis' will need to return to their country of birth for it to work.

Don’t believe in the two state solution. One state with equal rights and plights for all, yes.

The two state solution does not exist anymore.

Also completely true.

@DagnyTaggart963

I don’t think Israel will even try to beat Hamas. Eliminating Hamas would make denying equal rights tremendously difficult. Hamas will live on, serving as the main excuse for maintaining separate rights for whomever remain in this latest expansion of Israeli borders.