Continuing the discussion from The Middle East Thread (Part 1) - #7382 by ISMF.
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Putting my answer in here as well:
Yeah, I’m assuming that at some point, a majority of people in Israel will have had enough of the monster currently serving as their PM, of missiles raining down on them, of that perpetual state of being at war, and will want something else. Like for instance, a credible political approach for a lasting peace in the region.
But as you say, there is no guarantee that we will ever see something like that again. In that case, Israel will slowly devolve towards a third-world country, as more and more educated people will migrate elsewhere. They already start having a shortage in doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers because all these people are fed up of the situation and are migrating elsewhere. That situation will only worsen with time going by. Thus: an existential crisis for the country.
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https://x.com/NickKristof/status/2053777719637463367
It’s suggested reading for some of you, as the article is of a high quality
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, Gaza 
, Lebanon 
, take your pick.
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(…) Today, more than 1.9 million Palestinians of the 2.4 million total living in the enclave have been uprooted by the war, many of them multiple times. At least 1.2 million of them have lost their homes, according to the UN aid coordination office, OCHA.
For many, the notional ceasefire between Hamas fighters and the Israeli military has not brought safety. Displacement orders continue to be issued “and Israeli forces in Gaza continue to destroy whatever is left of the built environment as well”, OHCHR’s Ms. El Sheikh told UN News.
“Gaza remains suspended in a nightmare that is difficult to reconcile with the existence of a ceasefire,” she maintained. “Palestinians in Gaza are living on a small fraction of the land, and they are encircled from all sides by Israeli ground forces that continue to push further into Palestinian communities and contract the space that is available to civilians.”
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