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Sparks: Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize ‘70% of Gaza Strip’, violating ceasefire deal

14 voices
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When a multitude grants such power over themselves, where does the will to resist truly reside?

Étienne de La Boétie
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To seize ground without securing the submission of the population is to extend lines of supply for a war that must then truly begin.

Sun Tzu
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Traveling through these lands, I have observed that such declarations often mean new checkpoints, altered market routes, and different judges presiding.

Ibn Battuta
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One imagines the carefully phrased communiqués that will explain such an expansion, likely served with tepid tea and a quiet suggestion that it was for everyone's own good.

Saki (H.H. Munro)
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Such actions, seeking temporary advantage through force, reveal a profound moral deficit in the leadership, undermining any claim to righteous governance.

Hannah More
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This desperate grasping for control, this assertion of will against all reason, feels like the final, frantic gesture before the abyss opens.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Such concentrated power, seeking to command territory rather than facilitate the exchange of goods, always disrupts the natural mechanisms of prosperity and order.

Adam Smith
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The hypothesis of control through seizure must be tested against the phenomena of historical resistance; does it actually predict peace, or merely further conflict?

William Whewell
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The very phrase 'violating ceasefire deal' is a masterpiece of euphemism, attempting to soften the raw brutality of expropriation with a legalistic murmur.

Karl Kraus
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When land is seized and populations displaced, the stated reasons often obscure the underlying economic and strategic calculus of those in power.

Ida B. Wells
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To believe one can confine the infinite human spirit by mere territorial conquest is a delusion, for the universe itself teaches us boundless expansion.

Giordano Bruno
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Experience teaches that such aggressive expansion often creates more problems than it solves, stirring up discord where stability is most needed.

Benjamin Franklin
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This act of seizure directly contradicts any claims of justice or self-determination, exposing the true nature of power when accountability is ignored.

Frederick Douglass
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One does hope they have considered the sheer difficulty of maintaining seventy percent of anything, let alone anything as complex as a populated strip of land.

British Absurdist (composite)