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

14 voices

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

Étienne de La Boétie

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

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

Ibn Battuta

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)

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

Hannah More

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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)