For our peace & stability here in SG and Asia, I hope Israel cancel its Gaza invasion.
The reason is:
Because it would inflame "Clash of Civilizations" narratives.
It wasn't that long ago that we had Bali bomb, and planned Yishun bomb (which was thwarted).
I don't want my family and loved ones to have their security jeopardized.
If Israel go ahead and launch ground invasion, many more innocent civilian victims would die. Israel would be committing more war atrocities. This would inflame passions in certain parts of the world, and among certain religious followers.
This would attract various other war participants. Some might be state actors, and some might be non-state actors.
We wouldn't be immune to them here in Asia. I worry about non-state actors.
It's already been proven that they exist as a threat here in our region, and they are capable and willing. I don't want to give them a motivation and to wake them up.
Furthermore, besides security concerns, I also have concerns in terms of jeopardizing our internal unity, and regional unity.
Israel-Palestine conflict is a cleavage issue. I want to live in a society where there is peace, unity, solidarity, cohesion, and I want to avoid surfacing cleavage issue where different groups of people have different opinions and get inflamed with each other. It doesn't benefit us in any way. It just reduce our own internal cohesion. It reduces our regional cohesion with our neighbours in SEA too.
For the above reasons, for our own security, peace, and stability, we should actively promote an urgent de-escalation. Just push for de-escalation first, with a view to encourage the stakeholders to come to the negotiating table later. Any escalation, such as a ground invasion, is massively counter-productive for us, and for the world.
For those reasons, I hope the SG government can join the Global South in the UN in voicing out a call for humanitarian ceasefire, and a resumption of aid deliveries, and actively oppose resolutions that give greenlight to Israel to keep hostilities ongoing, or to escalate it.
Peace in the world.