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Chris Fox's avatar

Israel has been murdering Palestinians since they set foot on Palestinian shores. In 1948 men who would later be Prime Ministers of Israel stepped proudly over the corpses of men, women and children. Never again! they intoned repeatedly, and it was the recent holocaust that led the world to turn a blind eye to the theft of others’ land to create a “safe space” for Jews.

Fast forward 75 years. The theft is ongoing, there is almost no land left for a Palestine, as that psychotic butcher Netanyahu orders more and more “Jewish settlements” to make certain that a two-state solution is impossible.

Israel murders as many Palestinians as Hamas did Israelis regularly and the strongest objection America can muster is “unhelpful.”.

Yes I condemn Hamas’ savagery but it wasn’t the beginning of anything.

I note that a month later, October 7 is a footnote to 4000 dead Palestinian children as the world learns, for the first time in most cases, about the cruelty of the Occupation.

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Steve QJ's avatar

"Yes I condemn Hamas’ savagery but it wasn’t the beginning of anything."

I wish more people could understand this very simple piece of moral and historical clarity. SO many people see to think this all started October 7th, or even that Hamas cares about liberating the Palestinian people.

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DP's avatar

I think you may have misunderstood Chris Fox’s comment. Or maybe I have 🤔

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Chris Fox's avatar

Your judgment of “moral and historical clarity” means a lot to me, Steve. Thank you.

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Mark Miles's avatar

After reading Ian Black’s “Enemies and Neighbors,” it is clear to me that any credible opinion on this conflict has to start at the beginning, with the Zionist vision in the late 1800’s of creating de novo a Jewish political entity in Palestine. All the thousands of historical incidents along the way boil down to the same essential dynamic of Zionists taking control and possession of Palestinian’s land and crushing any resistance to accepting it as a fait accompli, and then describing it as refusal to accept Israeli’s “offers of a peaceful solution.”

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