Stance on the Israeli-Palestinean Military Conflict.
Take into account, before voting, that this is on a military situation. So, for example, if one is very Pro Palestine they may wish to see Israeli forces expelled, while someone who is very Pro Israel may wish Israeli forces to win the conflict. The humanitarian answer will follow next.
Before voting, take into account that neutral means you care equally about them, while leaning towards either is caring more about one than the other for a specific cause, for example, being very pro-Palestine because they have suffered several times more casualties, or being very pro-Israel because Hamas began the current incarnation of the conflict.
There isn't really a neutral answer on this, -unless you count not knowing or having a full opinion- your stand on what Hamas is will simply depend on whether or not you consider them or Israel to be more or less morally questionable.
The Islamic Resistance Movement, known as Hamas, claims to represent the people of Palestine and to desire the independence of Palestine. Defining itself as a national liberation movement with moderate Islamic thought, limiting its struggle and work to the Palestinian issue.
Since December 29, 2022, the Israeli State has been under the coalition of the Sixth Netanyahu Cabinet, represented by the following political parties and leaders.
Likud, Prime Minister Netanyahu's own party, a National Zionist Right Wing Party. 32 Seats.
Yesh Atid of Yair Lapid, a Liberal Zionist Party. 24 Seats.
The State Camp of Benny Gantz, a Centre Right Zionist Party. 12 Seats.
The Association of Sephardim Shomeri Torah the movement of Maran Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Ztzel of Aryeh Deri, an Ultra Orthodox and Conservative Party. 11 Seats.
Torah Judaism and Shabbat Agudat Israel of Yitzhak Issachar Goldknopf, an Ultra-Orthodox and Conservative Ashkenazi Party. 7 Seats.
Religious Zionism of Bezalel Smotrich, a Conservative Religious Zionist Party. 7 Seats.
Otzma Yehudit of Itamar Ben Gvir, a Jewish Laomanut (Ideology where the good of the nation comes before any other value, and where achieving the good of the nation matters more than anything else) and Kahanist (Kahanism believes that Israeli Arabs and non-Jews are the enemies of all Jews and the State of Israel, opposes the values of liberal democracy and strives to establish an anti-democratic Jewish-Theocratic halachic state, in which minorities in Israel will not have the right to be citizens of the state) Party. 6 Seats.
And Noam, a fundamentalist Right Wing Party. 1 Seat.
Source: Vox.
At its core, it refers to policies intended to elevate one racial group over another, with the goal of maintaining the dominant group’s hegemony. In 1998, the International Criminal Court (to which Israel is not a party) defined it as “inhumane acts committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.”
Human rights groups have argued that the Israeli government’s policies on land access, restrictions on movement, and limitations on the right to vote meet the ICC’s standard and that it has institutionalized racism against Palestinians in order to ensure Israeli Jews remain the dominant group across Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT), which includes the West Bank and Gaza. Israel and its allies, including the US and the European Commission, have rejected this assessment.
The Republic of South Africa has, recently, presented a process against the State of Israel, where it accuses the Jewish State of Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinian population, as explained during the introduction, point number one.
The acts and omissions by Israel complained of by South Africa are genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group, that being the part of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip (‘Palestinians in Gaza’). The acts in question include killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, and inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. The acts are all attributable to Israel, which has failed to prevent genocide and is committing genocide in manifest violation of the Genocide Convention, and which has also violated and is continuing to violate its other fundamental obligations under the Genocide Convention, including by failing to prevent or punish the direct and public incitement to genocide by senior Israeli officials and others.
https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf
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