• AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
    hexbear
    15
    5 months ago

    Yes, the Palestinians, or more broadly the Axis of Resistance, are absolutely winning. Normalization between the comprador Arab countries and the Zionist entity has ceased. The Zionist entity is irreversibly divided and internally falling apart. Netanyahu has already been threatened with a military coup if he doesn't step down, and he has more or less been reduced to a paranoid wreck. The northern parts of occupied Palestine have practically been decolonized since the settlers there don't want to get owned by Hezbollah rockets. And this is not getting into Ansarallah destroying their economy by shooting at cargo ships headed for Zionist ports or Iraqi militia launching drones at Zionist bases. And with the recent strikes including strikes against a nuclear power, Iran is tying up loose ends and preparing for a direct confrontation.

    National liberation struggles are costly for the colonized. Go look up the number of dead people the French murdered in Algeria and Vietnam before losing them for good. 25k dead is a small price to pay, and the Palestinians will almost certainly pay a much higher price before Israel is gone for good. But as it has been shown time and time again, all the bombs in the world can't do shit if you don't have boots on the ground to actually do the occupying.

    • GaveUp [she/her]
      hexbear
      17
      5 months ago

      You forgot to reference all the genocides that have succeeded though

      Gaza and West Bank can easily be completely sieged compared to Algeria and Vietnam

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
        hexbear
        11
        5 months ago

        No, the Palestinians have too many regional allies and means of getting military aid through tunnels. Those regional allies aren't just doing it out of the goodness of their hearts because they know that once Palestine falls, they'll be next on the chopping block.

        An actual successful ethnic cleansing is something like Artsakh. Artsakh was completely isolated politically. They weren't even officially recognized or supported by Armenia, a country that has maneuvered itself into a geopolitical quagmire where the West doesn't really support them despite much pathetic West simping on their end and Russia/Iran don't really support them either. Armenia has no friends and despite this, Artsakh couldn't even rely on Armenia. That's how isolated Artsakh was. And once you factor in Azerbaijan being supported by Turkey, a NATO country, the ethnic cleansing was inevitable.