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Beau says:
Israel's decision to maintain security responsibilities in Gaza mirrors past mistakes, ensuring continued conflict and heartbreak for future generations.
Advocates for peace
The full transcript delves into the cycle of violence in conflict zones, challenging misconceptions about attainable victory and the nature of peace, advocating for a forward-looking approach to break the cycle and protect future generations.
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Well, howdy there, internet people.
Let's bow again.
So today, we are going to talk about the most recent
developments, what they mean in the short term, what they
mean in the long term, where it goes from here.
We're going to talk about a resolution, what a resolution
will actually look like, because I feel like people
might have a misconception about what the end of this
actually looks like, and just kind of run through everything. If you have missed the
news, despite US advice to the contrary, Israel has determined that after the
fighting and the most recent flare-up, that they will maintain, I believe they're
calling them security responsibilities for Gaza, continuing the trend of making
the exact same mistakes the US did after 2001.
Maintaining security responsibility means troops, means a lot of interaction, a lot
of close contact, a lot of moments for things to go wrong.
That's what it means.
Now the statement was that it was for an indefinite period of time.
have taken that to mean forever. I actually think in context that means for
an unknown amount of time, but rest assured it won't be a short amount. It
won't be a short amount of time. As far as what this means in the short term, it
can go in a whole bunch of different directions. None of them are really
good, and for the long term the one thing that is basically all but guaranteed at
this point is that this cycle will continue for at least another generation.
generation. Another generation with their youth up in smoke. Almost guaranteed.
There's still a chance, but it's really, really small. And there are people who believe
that their side, whichever side is theirs, they still believe they're right
there. They're going to get victory. They're going to get there.
They won't. They won't. Long-term, they won't because they have unattainable victory
conditions. That hasn't changed. In fact, nothing has changed.
nothing. So with that in mind I would like to talk a moment about what peace
would actually look like when it finally comes because I think people have a
misconception. I am certain that there will be no parades, there will be no
flags waving, there will be no celebrations. It will not be a situation
where the troops, again, whichever side, where they are marching with honor
because they have won, because they are victorious. There is no military solution
to this. If you want to know what peace would look like, you need to forget any
idea you have in your mind about a celebration, about flags waving, about
parties in the street and people dancing, because it's not what it looks like. Peace
in these type of conflicts, that's not what happens. It's not a celebration. It
is absolutely heartbreaking. If you want to know what it's going to look like, you
need to turn your eyes to Ireland. Because right now, right now, there are
people who lost loved ones during the Troubles and those incidents were
being investigated. But now those investigations, they're going to
stop. They're going to stop. Because if you want to move on from the cyclical
kind of violence, you have to look forward. You can't look back. The
historical injustices, when peace becomes a priority, they don't matter as much because
at some point people decide it is more important to protect the next generation and stop their
youth from going up in smoke.
It's more important to protect them than it is to avenge the past.
And that means that there are a lot of injustices that do not, they don't even get investigated.
Some of those investigations in Ireland, some of them would have led to the determination
that, well, that was combat. Some of them absolutely would have been determined to
be something else. But it is unlikely that the investigations even occur, they
even finish, much less a prosecution. And it is heartbreaking for those
involved. No doubt. But that's what this kind of piece looks like because it
focuses on reconciliation and moving forward. Not slogans. Not slogans that
reinforce unattainable victory conditions that just keep the cycle
going. Decisions that were made over the last month all but guarantee another
generation loses their youth, loses their childhood.
Conflicts like this, they are inherently complex and generally people try to
simplify them, which is what humans do. In the process of doing so, they often
promote a, they promote a slogan for lack of a better word. They promote an idea
that deals with justice and fair play and what's right and wrong and all of
If those words mean more than the lives, the youth of the next generation, I don't
know that people know what those words mean.
The end of this, and again, it does not matter which side, there is no victory, there is
no military solution to this.
That's not how this ends, it doesn't end in parades.
It ends in heartbreak. It ends with officials going to the parents of somebody who was sitting
at home watching the Fresh Prince of Bel Air when two people burst in with masks. It ends
with those officials telling that person's parents that it's not going to
be investigated. And if that sounds really specific it's because that's
actually one of the investigations being called off.
That's what it looks like.
Until people are ready
to acknowledge that,
This will continue.
It is a complex topic
and it doesn't have anything to do with right and wrong.
If people continue
to
try to force
right and wrong and morality
and all of that stuff into it,
it will just continue for another generation. After this one, this one it's
already lost. It's going to happen. If the Israeli forces do a good enough job to
where they feel like they have achieved victory, at most, they're going to buy five
years, and then it all starts over again. There is no military solution. No parades,
just heartbreak. Anyway, it's just a thought.
Well, y'all have a good day.
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