Doesn't this make perfect sense, though?
Hamas finally poked the bear one too many times. And yes, there's extra, bad fallout from the response, but I understand Israel's response.
no, it does not make perfect sense, and it's a violation of international law as well as
occupying armies are bound by international law to well, NOT illegally occupy- and all armies are bound to take measures to avoid killing women and children, not kill everything that moves and slaughter them en masse like Israel does. Big Bad evil Hitler Putin's war has killed around 500 children in Ukraine in over 2 years. Israel's war has killed TENS OF THOUSANDS OF THEM in.... 6 months.
you can also flip that really dumb sh*t you just said that I underlined on it's head and say, Israel poked the bear one too many times during it's
illegal 57 year occupation of the territories of the land of the Palestinian people and I understand the Palestinian response. Both just wildly stupid things to say. Hamas terrorist attacks are not acceptable. Obviously. And neither is the response from Israel, which has been far more brutal, horrific, and taken far more innocent lives than anything Hamas could ever dream of pulling off.
people act like all this sh*t just started October 7th with Hamas. newsflash: it's been going on since the early 1900s, when the first wave of
European jews immigrated to Palestine- which ended in 1903. Prior to that first wave of European jews immigrating which began in 1880- just 144 years ago- NOT THAT LONG AGO- there were only 25,000 Jews in the entire territory of what is now Israel and Palestine. By the start of WWI there was a 220% increase in population from 1880- but there were still only 80,000 Jews in what is now Israel and Palestine. It continued on to 1916 when the British reneged on a deal with the Arabs to support statehood for the Arabs who lived in what is now Israel-Palestine, if they revolted against Ottoman rule. Well they revolted and toppled their Ottoman overlords, only for the British to stab them in the back and secretly cut a pact with the French to divide the former Ottoman lands and control all the puppet states that followed. The British had no right to do this. To make matters worse- a year later in 1917 the British promised support for taking land from Palestinians for a future Jewish state in Palestine with the Balfour declaration- a promise they had no legal authority to make. An occupying country (UK) has no right to promise land it occupies to a 3rd party for a future statehood. This is an absurdity. The Balfour declaration was nothing more than out-right anti-semitism from a European power to "get them out of our country" and nothing more- the British didn't give two sh*ts about a Jewish state- they just wanted Jews out of their country. The biggest anti-semites in history by FAR has been the European Christian nations.
UK opened up the immigration flood waves and then it continued onto the Nakba in 1948- when what was mainly a band of highly armed militant immigrant colonizer settler Jews from Europe and their children- conquered land that
DID NOT belong to them, drove out and ethnic cleansed nearly three quarters of a million Palestinians who had been living on that land for millennia- and establishing a state based off a partition plan from the UN- a plan which gave about 60% of the land to less than 1/3rd of the population and what again was mostly immigrant colonizing settler
Europeans- when the Arabs who had been living there for thousands of years- who outnumbered the immigrant colonizer settler
Europeans over 2 to 1- received around 40% of the land. This was unacceptable to the majority Arab population- and of course it would lead to: war. War broke out, Israel won- and not only did they claim the land the UN partition was proposing for Israel- they also took 60% of the land the UN was proposing for Palestine. The UN had no mandate or power or right to partition Palestinian lands and create states from whole cloth and thin air.
If the UN really wanted to give European jews a state- they probably should've just given them Germany- a state that quite frankly shouldn't even have the right to exist anymore in my opinion after what the Nazis did. And if that was not enough, it continued on to the the Naksa in 1967 when Israel drove out and ethnic cleansed over 350,000 more Palestinians from their lands and homes- and the Israeli government has been illegally occupying the West Bank and Gaza ever since-
for 57 straight years. Fun fact: any Jew born anywhere in the world- even part jewish as long as one grandparent or parent is Jewish- have the "right of return" to Israel, yet the million plus Palestinians who were driven from their lands and homes- and in many cases can prove documents of ownership from the times of the Ottoman control- in the Nakba in 1948 and the Naksa in 1967 and the millions of their descendants- do not have the right to return to their homeland. Kind fcking WILD, ain't it? And it continues on even further- when after the fall of the Soviet Union when roughly 1,000,000
Central and Eastern European colonizing settlers immigrated into Israel with the help of the West- and Israel annexed yet even more land from the West Bank to build settlements and housing.
And it continues on to this day. Israel just announced not too long ago they are annexing
another 2,000 acres in the West Bank to build settlements. The Palestinian people have been oppressed, slaughtered, driven from their lands, and have lived in what are essentially concentration camps for the last 57 years. I am not condoning any type of terrorist attacks on civilians, but I sure as hell don't know how I would respond if the shoe was on the other foot. I'm not sure you can say so either.
We are suppose to have been past European colonialism and genocide of an indigenous population. The fact that all this has happened in a little over the last 100 plus years is downright shocking to me. And spare me the bullsh*t about the Bible and how this was their land 3,000 years ago. Cause I really don't give a flying f**k about some cockamamy fairytales from some bullsh*t like the Bible that only morons believe actually happened. The historical accuracy of the Bible is like oh, only 0%. The Jews were never slaves in Egypt that built the pyramids. The Romans never executed Jesus. Kind of hard to execute someone who never existed. There was no max exodus from Judea after the Romans crushed their final rebellion. The Romans just destroyed Judea, slaughtered around 600,000 people, took some as slaves, deported any potential trouble makers from the royal family/nobility to Rome, and the Jews that remained there either eventually converted or maintained their religion. What is deeply ironic about this entire ordeal today is that many people calling themselves Palestinian Arabs are the descendants of the Jews and Samaritans who remained in Palestine and converted after the Islamic conquests.
