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It wasn't my intention to make him a scapegoat, I'm only accusing him of the statements that he made, nothing else. Any actual actions that the government and military make can't fall on just his shoulders.

What everyone globally seems to forget, or maybe never even heard about, is that Israel has tried multiple times in the past to make peace with a Palestinian state, with generous offers of land (generous when you consider that it was under no obligation to offer them, and it's a state not a person so ethics don't apply in quite the same way). Right from the get-go, it's the Palestinians who always refused these peace offerings, ever since with the UN decision to establish the state of Israel which was largely supported by the western world.

Even in the past few years before the October 7th attacks, [Israel has gradually *increased* the number of work permits for Gaza citizens to work in Israel.](https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-set-to-raise-work-permit-quotas-for-gazans-to-20000/). Israel has been trying slowly to gain any sort of trust and be humanitarian, but time and time again this trust is betrayed and progress is reversed.

**I will say that I don't think any of this justifies the number of casualties in Gaza. It doesn't make sense to me, and I don't think it's acceptable that destruction of this extent is Israel's course of action.** But I also can't agree with claims of genocide or ethnic cleansing, *especially* not as a long-term policy of Israel. It doesn't add up.
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