Israel had a years warning ahead of time when they acquired access to Hamas’ plan to break through the walls of Gaza, where food, water, internet, electricity, and basic necessities were controlled by Israel, and their intelligence shrugged it off immediately. Their own hubris made this happen, and they were so busy focusing upon further controlling the West Bank region that Netanyahu both instilled ignorance of the struggles Palestinians in Gaza faced, and noxious pride that led to disregarding the power Hamas was gaining.
Israel has the capabilities to stop the resistance forces, and they failed to use it until they launched a brutal counter offensive against Gaza to solidify their grip on the region, a land that they had only partially owned once in all of history during the Kingdom of Israel’s seizure of its northern 1/3 territory. To say that Israel has a right to do what they’re doing is absolutely absurd, they’ve no precedence or real authority over the land to call that their own besides wanton coercion to control it from the outside.
Hamas was brought up by Israel in the first place to counter the PLO, creating a much more religiously zealous enemy than ever before, which now hates the Israeli occupiers for their mere existence rather than just colonizing the land. Colonization isn’t even a contestable point here, the Zionists were extremely honest and blunt about their intention to colonize the land in their charter, their words, and their actions. The intent was, from the beginning, bad faith and misguided.
The world didn’t even give the Zionists the land because we felt bad for Jews, Britain handed it to them because it suited their interests to curtail waves of Jewish immigrants to their country. Balfour’s Declaration was the adoption of a perceived solution: take the land theyd promised the Arabs control of, and hand it to the Jews. Balfour himself, along with Churchill and many of the original Zionist supporters and founders, were shockingly antisemitic, and… Read more
Israel had a years warning ahead of time when they acquired access to Hamas’ plan to break through the walls of Gaza, where food, water, internet, electricity, and basic necessities were controlled by Israel, and their intelligence shrugged it off immediately. Their own hubris made this happen, and they were so busy focusing upon further controlling the West Bank region that Netanyahu both instilled ignorance of the struggles Palestinians in Gaza faced, and noxious pride that led to disregarding the power Hamas was gaining.
None of this I dispute. I acknowledge the errors of the Israeli… Read more
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I’m gonna ignore the Bush bit here, but I’m not trying to prove Hamas right, I’m explaining why it happened, why Hamas did that, and what made them mad enough to do that. Short answer: colonization, decades of it. The soldiers of Hamas are the kids and relatives of those who’d previously lived in the land the Israelis took during the war. They were breaking into places they had memories of, places they’d lived in and remembered the loss of for generations. When someone has to know that the homes they lived in are being inhabited by the people who forced them out,… Read more
I’m not trying to prove Hamas right, I’m explaining why it happened, why Hamas did that, and what made them mad enough to do that.
And to hell, I say, with their motivations. Their terrorist attack is totally unjustified, their indiscriminate slaughter, and deliberate targeting, of women and children is unsurpassed in the grimmest catalogue of human barbarity the blood of thousands of wars has written. And in inflicting that gravest of atrocities on Israel's population, they forced the nation, which had long been seeking, but never truly finding, peace and co-existence with… Read more
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When everything is a “who started it first” situation, nothing has a justification, or everything does. This happened because the Israelis were demolishing the West Bank, the area with NO influence or ownership by Hamas. What’s their excuse there? They’ve killed thousands of children and innocent civilians in the West Bank for decades, and the only ruling authority there is the PA, which is openly and evidentially inside the pocket of the Israelis in most every respect. The Israelis already target civilians, they already kill en masse, then play the victim while shooti… Read more
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The kingdom of Judea was one of many who existed there, and if we must pull this ancient history “blood and soil” nonsense, their own scripture states they’d killed the Canaanites who lived in the region because it was their promised land. If you believe their own scriptural histories, then they are quite literally the genocidal types in the past themselves. Palestinians have a stronger connection to Canaanites overall, with far less non-Middle Eastern genetic variation than most modern-day Jews.
These arguments betray themselves, because Palestinians are already linked with… Read more
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The anti-Zionist movement is not driven just by young white leftists and Muslims, but just as often by Jews, by the spectators and viewers of these atrocities who are disgusted by the brutality of the Israeli government. They have openly stated they want to take Gaza in its entirety, the majority of the Israeli people even believe it, and they consistently state it will be no place for the Palestinians to live, so answer me this: what will happen to them once they get Gaza? What will happen to the Palestinians once the Israelis conquer the whole region? After all, their territory and their… Read more