Yesterday, the Palestinians rose up for the Third Intifada general uprising from their concentration camp in Gaza. It’s easy to get caught up in the details of who killed who but let’s take a step back to see the bigger picture. Israel wants a Jewish state but there are as many Palestinians on that land as Jews and the Palestinians have a higher birthrate so if Israel is to remain a Jewish state, it needs to reduce the Palestinian population. With the world watching the conflict, Israel can’t outright genocide or ethnically cleanse the Palestinians so instead they go for a slow-motion ethnic cleansing by making life unbearable for Palestinians: seize a few homes here, build new illegal settlements there, kill a few Palestinians one day, then jail a few more the next, cut off the Palestinians from all services for a while, etc. Israel wants to force the Palestinians to all leave for Arab countries. The Palestinians know that if they leave their land (the one that they live on right now), they are unlikely to ever get it back because Israel has seized huge tracts of Palestinian land since 1948 and denied any Palestinian the right to return. As a result, many Palestinians stay and endure Israeli apartheid. The root of this problem is Israel’s obsession of imposing a Jewish state on non-Jews who have lived there for centuries and don’t want a Jewish state on their land. The only way to solve this problem realistically is for Israel to accept being no longer a Jewish state but transform into an inclusive multi ethnic and multi-confessional state. The state can have special privileges and protections for Jews but it needs to treat Palestinians as equals. If it does that then the territorial issues, mutual hatred, and right of return can be resolved. Of course, Palestinians who have fled or been driven out need to have at least monetary compensation for their lost land and the right to reside in this state. Israel as the more powerful party also needs to do some soul searching, open up a truth and reconciliation commission on the 75 year old conflict, and make a national apology to the Palestinians. No one needs to be jailed or sentenced, but Israel as a country needs to get woke about Palestinians the same way that America has dealt with the Native American and black population since the Civil Rights Movement. Israeli Jews need to have a sense of guilt taught to them from their school curriculum. In return, the Palestinians can then give up their struggle because they would have achieved equality and gotten their country in some sense back. There can be no peace without at least some justice.
Israel has carried out an illegal occupation of Palestinian lands for 50+ years and has brutalized Gaza without pause since 2007. You cannot claim to have ended the occupation of a territory when you control the ports, all entry points, the sky, the goods that come and go and the utilities. Israel has been illegally blockading Gaza and routinely prevents even basic necessities from reaching the people such as medicines. Every day a person is born in Gaza into an open-air prison, in the West Bank without civil rights, in Israel with an inferior status by law, and in neighboring countries effectively condemned to lifelong refugee status, like their parents and grandparents before them, solely because they are Palestinian and not Jewish. A future rooted in the freedom, equality, and dignity of all people living in Israel and the OPT will remain elusive so long as Israel’s abusive practices against Palestinians persist.
Perhaps the Palestinians shouldn’t have fucked around by starting a war and finding out by losing the war.
2007 is when Hamas took over Gaza - two years after Israel stopped occupation. Although they were controlling ports of entry at that point in time - the blockade didn’t begin until Hamas took over Gaza after the PLO/Fatah refused to give up the power to Hamas after Hamas won the elections in 2006. Hamas is a terrorist organization that wants to destroy Israel - why wouldn’t they blockade them? Even Egypt participates in this blockade of Gaza. Of course - Hamas only became popular because of how brutal the occupation had been and Israel keeping Palestinians impoverished but there’s not really a valid argument against blockading Hamas. Ending the occupation was arguably the wrong move that allowed Hamas to come to power when the PA couldn’t control Gaza. If they ever leave the West Bank to its own devices - it will also become a terrorist hub because Palestinians justly hate Israel.
Stop reading occupy democrats and get a job, hero.
Personally I don’t care about Israel or the Palestinians. Although I will say I personally detest Israel right wing even more than Trump
Why is USA supporting Israel? Can they stay out of other countries business
Because that is what allies do.
Usa supports israel because hamas are terrorists that need to be systematically destroyed
The only thing israel needs to do is systematically destroy every presence of hamas in gaza and take back control of gaza
Palestinians nearly universally support Hamas and in Gaza that support is universal so you are calling for exterminating Gazans which is genocide.
I'm calling for the destruction of terrorists. Anyone who is not a monster should want the removal of these terrorists
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Thank you for sharing this. It needs to be said more. Lots of Palestinians have left after losing everything they had because of Israel destroying their homes, it’s 100% on Israel. Hamas has blood on their hands but their existence is the result of oppression. They’re the only resistance against apartheid that Palestinians have left, who are then demonized for being protected by a “terrorist group” when Palestinians didn’t ask for any of this at all. Fuck the government of Israel
Fuck terrorists. Hope Israel wipes out every last terrorist and takes back control of gaza
Fuck Israel. Israel is a parasitic state that feeds off of the American state and taxpayer while giving back absolutely nothing
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"Gaza. It’s easy to get caught up in the details of who killed who" Fuck you
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