No, i think they have a legitimate beef with the nation of Israel, which evicted them from the lands their forefathers farmed and lived on for generations.
Well, that’s the problem, isn’t it. You can say that they are paying the price for whatever issue is causing them to be homeless, but then what? They’re homeless, living on the streets. Now it’s our problem.
I could find five commenters on these boards and cut and paste virtually the same comment you just made. All that tells me is that you get the same lines from the same place. Try an original thought from your own brain for a change.
In 2006, Hamas won 45% of the vote for parliament. Half of the current population of Gaza were not even born yet. They shared power with Fatah, but failed to cooperate and the eventually the power struggle ended with Hamas taking over. They are by no means a democratically elected government and haven’t been since.
Israel has never offered them anything near what Palestinians want. Israel has done everything in their power to ensure that Palestinians never have an actual country.
This war didn’t start in October, it started 76 years ago to this day. Both sides have a part in it.
And, none of that matters anymore. Gaza will be a desolated pile of rubble with tens of thousands dead. The next generation will be traumatized by this war and form the backbone of Hamas 2.0. Israel will become a nuclear armed pariah like North Korea and be forever watching it’s back.
I am neither deaf, dumb nor blind. I see both sides here.
Most of the rhetoric here is against the country of Israel, not Jews in particular. If you can’t see the difference, then you are admitting that Israel is anti-Islamic, since all of those who live in the occupied territories are Muslim. Somehow, being anti-Muslim isn’t as horrible as being anti-Semitic.
I’m reading through your list of atrocities and I am reminded of a fisherman’s tale where the fish just gets bigger and bigger. Maybe they’re true and maybe not. But, one could certainly trade tales.
Where’s your outrage against babies left abandoned in incubators as hospital workers are forced to choose between their lives and the care of their patients? What about aid workers in clearly marked vehicles killed by the IDF? HOw about Israelis “settlers” infiltrating Palestinian land and claiming it for their own, defending it with the backing of the Israeli government and military? How about Israelis blocking aid shipments and destroying them? Israeli casualties from the October attack were 1200. So far 35,000 Palestinians have died, 30 times higher.
Israel is in the process of leveling Gaza and killing tens of thousands of it’s people. They gunning down defenseless civilians. They are waging an urban battle in an area where half the population is children. They are actively pushing the people who live in the West Bank out of their lands and into refugee status. For some reason you don’t consider that genocide or ethnic cleansing.
Neither side’s hands are clean here. The difference is that Israel has set it up so that any criticism of them can be called anti-Semitic. Clever branding, if you ask me. And if you don’t see that, then you are blind, deaf and dumb. Or complicit.
It was a very small minority of students involved in these protests, nothing at all like the Viet Nam War protests of the 60’s and 70’s. And yet the right has decided ALL students are stained by this.
No, i think they have a legitimate beef with the nation of Israel, which evicted them from the lands their forefathers farmed and lived on for generations.