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Valerie Carter's avatar

Israel is not defending itself. The US and Israel are committing genocide in Gaza and soon in the West Bank. There is no way to justify bombing a civilian population and cutting off all supply of food , fuel and medicine. Israel's goal is to eliminate all Palestinians from Gaza and West Bank. They will not stop there. They will try to take over Jordan Syria Lebanon. Their greed for more land knows no bounds.

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Toby Block's avatar

Have you ever looked at a map of the Middle East. Israel is a tiny speck in a sea of Muslim countries. Yet, Israel absorbed and uplifted 800,000 Mizrachi Jews driven from their homes in the Middle East and North Africa. Arab countries, with vast land holdings and (some with) oil riches refused to take in Arabs who fled or were displaced from Palestine during Arab-initiated wars in the 1940's. Descendants of the Mizrachi Jews comprise the majority of Israel's current Jewish population. Every position in Israel's governance (except Prime Minister) has been filled, at one time or another) by someone with roots in the Mizrachi communities. Descendants of Arabs who fled Palestine or who were displaced during war time now number 6,000,000 "Palestine refugee" on UNrwa rolls. They've grown up seeing people honored and rewarded for killing Jews but their leaders insist the "refugees" will remain under UNRWA aegis until Israel takes them in.

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Curtis Josue's avatar

Quite frankly Toby, idgaf. If you are still defending Israel to this day you are the problem. Stfu and take your medicine bc no matter what bs you spew it will NEVER justify

targeting and killing civilians. You don’t get to be the occupier then cry when the occupied fight back. Hamas isn’t perfect but the zionists make them look like saints when comparing atrocities.

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Toby Block's avatar

The 1964 founding charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization specified that the PLO made no claim to lands (Gaza and "The West Bank") then held by Egypt and Jordan. The PLO's objective was "Liberating Israel from the Jews." Palestinian leaders remain in denial of the fact that the modern State of Israel is located in the Jews' ancestral homeland, an area which contained Jewish communities continuously during the millennia when most Jews lived in the Diaspora.

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Curtis Josue's avatar

Ah yes I simply just don’t understand the history huh? Even if that were true I don’t need a history degree to see a genocide funded by the west. Judgement Day is coming for the true villains

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Toby Block's avatar

I fear Judgement Day is not coming for the TRUE VILLIANS -- Hamas and their supporters; people who hate Israel for what it is (The Nation State of the Jews) and claim that Israel is the aggressor.

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Curtis Josue's avatar

Israel is the occupier trying to ethnically cleanse a land they stole. If that isn’t villain shit then you’re just thick in the head or you’re a liar

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Ellen Shellstrom's avatar

Most Jews in Israel come from Eastern Europe, they have no DNA from the Middle East what so ever

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Toby Block's avatar

Totally untrue. The descendants of 800,000 Mizrachi Jews driven from their homes in the Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa, and subsequently absorbed and uplifted by Israel, comprise the majority of Israel's current Jewish population. That demographic was a major factor in Israel's chose of Hebrew (rather than Yiddish) as a national language.

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Curtis Josue's avatar

The event you’re citing is a reason to hate Isn’treal. Jews were living in Arab countries just fine until Zionists started funding terror attacks across those countries lol.

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Toby Block's avatar

The Arabs drove the Mizrachim out of their homes in Muslim countries because the Arabs were ashamed that Arab armies had failed to eliminate the Zionists and prevent the emergence of a modern Jewish state in the Jews' ancestral homeland.

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Curtis Josue's avatar

Your understanding of this conflict and that time period in particular are vastly oversimplified. You really think the same group of terrorists: The Irgun, Lehi, Haganah, and Palmach who bombed plenty of British and Arab civilians would not fund other violent acts to encourage more Jewish immigration from Arab lands?

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Toby Block's avatar

It seems to me that the proof that the Zionists did not drive Arabs out of the area that became the State of Israel is the following: Twenty percent of Israelis are Arabs who have full civil rights. Compare with population changes across The Middle East and North Africa.

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Unveiling the Truth: The Astonishing Shift in Middle Eastern Demographics from 1948 to 2024

Announcement

As discussions of "ethnic cleansing" continue to echo across discussions about Israel, I believe it's crucial to illuminate these conversations with precise data and historical context. To truly understand the scope of demographic changes in this region, we must examine the evidence closely:

In-Depth Analysis of Demographic Shifts

Jewish Population Decline in Arab Countries (1948-2024):

Country % Decrease from 1948-2024

Algeria 99.93%

Bahrain 94.00%

Egypt 99.99%

Iraq 99.99%

Jordan 100.00%

Kuwait 100.00%

Lebanon 99.50%

Libya 100.00%

Morocco 99.20%

Syria 99.97%

Tunisia 99.05%

Yemen 99.91%

The figures above starkly highlight the dramatic reduction in Jewish populations across various Arab nations, with an average decline of 99.8% since 1948. This decline was influenced by a complex blend of war, political instability, and policies enacted post-Israel’s establishment, which collectively spurred a significant Jewish exodus.

Contrasting Growth in Israel’s Arab Population:

Conversely, Israel's Arab population has burgeoned, rising from 156,000 in 1948 to an estimated 2,178,000 in 2024—a 1,296.15% increase. This growth occurs within Israel's diverse societal fabric, illustrating a narrative of coexistence and community enhancement, rather than displacement or exclusion.

This data demands a nuanced examination, rather than reductionist labels that may mislead or inflame. The term "ethnic cleansing" is a powerful and polarizing phrase that, when misapplied, can distort our understanding of the complex realities of Middle Eastern ethnic dynamics.

I'm sharing these insights because I believe in the power of truth to foster genuine dialogue and reconciliation. Misinformation not only entrenches division but also obscures the paths to peace and mutual respect.

I encourage you to look beyond the headlines, question the simplified narratives, and engage with detailed, well-sourced information. Understanding the past and present of Middle Eastern demographics is not just about correcting misconceptions but about paving the way for informed discussions that can lead to a peaceful future.

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Curtis Josue's avatar

lol you completely missed my point and I don’t think that’s an accident. Classic Hasbara bot

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Toby Block's avatar

Do you really believe that Jews rule the world? Do you think the amount of money the Irgun might have had as its disposal compared in any substantial way with the amounts Qatar and Saudi Arabia have used to get American universities to spread lies about Jews and Israel? I had neighbors who were forced out of Egypt. I also know of Holocaust survivors who got to Israel and then came to the States because of food shortages in Israel as Israel struggled to rehabilitate so many refugees while still being under Arab attack. Conversely. despite large land holdings and oil riches, the Arabs put their people who'd fled or been displaced by Arab-initiated violence on the world's dole. There are 6,000,000 Palestine "refugees" on UNRWA's rolls (99.5% of them born into refugee status) and they consume monies that could be used to help current refugees.

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Curtis Josue's avatar

Bro you are the liar. I never once said Jews rule the world in fact I love the fact that some of the most outspoken critics against the Zio regime are Jewish. Btw Israel donates enormous amounts of cash to American politics through AIPAC and I’m sure they do it to other western countries as well. If anyone is giving credence to the antisemitic trope (that I disagree with) that Jews run the world it is Israel. You don’t get to donate hundreds of millions to trumps campaign slush fund then claim Israel doesn’t hold any sway over America’s foreign policy lol.

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hierochloe's avatar

Good gawd are you seriously mounting an attempt to defend the Gaza Holocaust? Israel has made itself the exact thing it tries to claim it exists to prevent against. The raw irony is incredible.

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Toby Block's avatar

Israel is fighting to prevent Hamas from making good on its vow to inflict repeated October 7s on Israelis. Israel has made numerous proposals for peace and given the Palestinians their first opportunity to live under leaders of their own choosing. But Palestinian leaders are more interested in destroying the nation-state of the Jews than in helping Palestinians to get out of refugee limbo. Read Bassam Tawil's article in Gatestone. (What to Palestinians really want?)

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hierochloe's avatar

You are living in a wicked fantasy reality. Israel has ratfucked every single route to peace because, obviously, the goal is to remove the native population to allow the occupation to expand. Palestinians would like to return to the land from which they were evicted. "Palestinian leaders" is irrelevant. Go read articles published in Hebrew, they're more honest there.

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Toby Block's avatar

The roadblock to Palestinian statehood is Israel's completely understandable concern that such a state would be another staging ground against the Jewish state and its people (including its Arab citizens who are considered traitors by Palestinian leaders.

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hierochloe's avatar

Good for you to obliquely concede the "roadblock" - Israel is continuously putting up these things to ensure a resistance continues and they have some cover to keep cleaning out the surplus natives. This is so obvious it isn't even worth debating, the cover is totally blown.

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Patricia Panitz's avatar

Hamas was goaded into the Oct. 7 attacks by Israel. In the months leading up to Oct. 7 the IDF repeatedly attacked the Al-Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest in Islam, beating up people at prayer. Hamas repeatedly warned Israel to stop or there would be consequences. Israel kept attacking.

Also the number of killings of Palestinians in the West Bank had increased dramatically in that time, reaching about 400 by Oct. 7 (many more have been killed since then). The nutcase Israeli settlers kill Palestinians with impunity and no consequence backed up by the IDF.

Israel has broken all the peace proposals, the latest being the one signed this past Jan.

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huey's avatar

How many children are going to be starved and blown up today that aren't near any of your bs tunnels?

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Toby Block's avatar

The ones living in homes where munitions are stored? The ones studying in schools near missile launching pads? The ones who aren't getting enough food because Hamas stole it or because their parents can't afford to pay Hamas' black market prices? The ones whose homes collapse when Israel attacks the terror tunnels dug beneath them?

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hierochloe's avatar

If any of that terror propaganda were true, it still wouldn't justify what's been done. There is no daylight between the final solution to the jewish question and the final solution to the Palestinian question. This has now been irrevocably laid bare for the world to witness. It's over, man.

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Patricia Panitz's avatar

Israel has never provided evidence that Hamas is supposedly hidden in all the hospitals, schools, mosques, bakeries, etc., it has destroyed. Quite to the contrary, nothing related to Hamas has ever been found in any of the hospitals Israel has bombed, many multiple times. Just yesterday Israel bombed a prosthetics hospital with mainly child amputees. Israel lies through its eye teeth and so do you.

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huey's avatar

Its sad that as a human you are OK with any justification for the killing of the

children.

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Toby Block's avatar

Did you protest (or even grieve) for the children killed by Hamas and other terrorists on October 7? Are you aware that Major John Spencer, an internationally recognized expert on Urban Warfare says that Hamas has gone beyond using Gazans as human shields and has actually made the Gazans into human sacrifices?

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Patricia Panitz's avatar

There are no human shields in Gaza. Israel kills everything that moves; children 3 and up, women waving white flags, and ambulance drivers, rescue workers, etc., have all been targeted by Israeli snipers.

Spencer must be in the employ of the enormous Israeli propaganda machine

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Momin's avatar

Pure EVIL !!

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Judith Bergson, Somerville's avatar

It is critical for the US to stop funding Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

Judith Bergson

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Marian Gillis's avatar

Apartheid is not complicated.

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huey's avatar

President Trump and the leaders of the US government are right up there with Netanyahu & his stooges are ALL WAR CRIMINALS.

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Souleiman Ghali's avatar

Death cult

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Clif Brown's avatar

There is a pride and arrogance in Israel's actions as it thumbs its nose at the world, "see what we can do and nobody can stop us" which reminds me of the Nazis, though they did not boast openly of their process of extermination. There is a cruel joy for Israel as it openly implements its idea that the land is for one people and the other is a pestilence that must be exterminated one way or another. The ability of Israel to pinpoint people in the OT that it wants to kill only shows how thoroughly it has infiltrated the OT leaving the Palestinians open to assassination at any time, this being the case of many years. Now it is group assassination where there can be no collateral damage as all the people are eligible to die.

And Trump, the man who could have stopped this at any time and could do so today, is said to want the Nobel Peace Prize. Readers may recall that in the Superman story, there was another planet called Bizarro that was a cube instead of a sphere like Earth. Trump lives in a world equally bizarre where punishment is a pleasure of power.

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Toby Block's avatar

20% of Israel's citizens are Arabs with full civil rights. Israel absorbed and uplifted 800,000 Mizrachi Jews driven from their homes in the Muslim countries of North Africa and the Middle East eight decades ago. Their descendants comprise the majority of Israel's current Jewish population.

In contrast, fewer than 700,000 Arabs who fled or were displaced from Palestine in the 1940's during Arab-initiated wars, have grown into 6,000,000 "Palestine refugees," 99.5% of them born in UNWRA camps which have become breeding grounds for terrorism. Palestinian leaders insist that Israel must allow the "refugees" to return to the homes lost by their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents,... But the refugees have grown up seeing Palestinians honored and rewarded for killing Jews. The "refugees" are unlikely to live in peace among Israelis.

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Share Cropper's avatar

Do Arab-Israeli citizens have full civil rights? Are they treated equally to non-Arab Israeli citizens in both society and law?

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Patricia Panitz's avatar

Israel is not now and has never been a democracy. It is a Jewish supremacist state, formally codified in 2018. All non-Jews, including Christians and especially Palestinians, are second class citizens. There are over 60 laws on the books restricting their rights. While a few Arabs have seats in the Knesset, they have no influence on policy, assuming they don't want their fellow Palestinians starved, bombed, burned alive in attacks, land stolen and homes razed to the ground.

Israel's been declared an apartheid state by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), and B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, and others.

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Toby Block's avatar

Yes. Israel's Arab citizens have the right to vote and run for elective office. Arabs and Jews are treated in the same hospitals by medical staffs comprised of Jewish and Arab personnel. Arabs can bring suit in court; Arabs can also serve as judges. Arabs and Jews work together. The list of people kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 includes the names of Arabs as well as the names of Jews.

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Share Cropper's avatar

Thank you.

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Karin's avatar

They don't have full civil rights. For starters, there are many parts of Israel where non-Jews are not allowed to live. It's a very racist and segregated society, in some ways similar to the Jim Crow era in the U.S.

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Lisa's avatar

Israeli-propagandists know that they're evil. Their malignant indoctrination, doesn't excuse their psychopathy.

No one should ever presume that hate-propagandists don't know any better. Especially a hate-propagandist that has "Been writing letters to newpapers for many years."

No one should ever make the excuse that they, themselves, were once misled, before becoming the misleaders they now are. Their deceit is malicious & intentional. Their incitement to genocide is motivated by their evil; not their ignorance.

They're not children; they are racist, bloodthirsty KILLERS.

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Virginia duRivage's avatar

Thank you for this story. So incredibly horrible and tragic. I don’t understand the “why” anymore. Too many children have died. Cutting off humanitarian aid. It shames me to be an American.

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Carole Cooper's avatar

My god, my god, Why hast thou forsaken me.

Why has the world forsaken Palestinians, Gaza and the West Bank.

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Toby Block's avatar

Palestinian leaders have forsaken their people. The Oslo Accords put the nearly all Palestinians under the administration of people of their own choosing, But those leaders have enriched themselves on monies donated for the people's benefit and diverted humanitarian aid to efforts to destroy Israel.

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Francoise La Monica's avatar

Meanwhile in Massachusetts, my Rep is worried about Jews and Chinese's "feeling threatened."

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Curtis Josue's avatar

We live in the twilight zone lol

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Writing Streams's avatar

The international community must impose sanctions and boycott Israel immediately. Enough words have been said, now it is time to act!

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Antizionistic's avatar

💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

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Toby Block's avatar

This war is a result of Hamas' prioritizing efforts to destroy Israel over building a society in which Palestinians could become productive citizens. By connecting mosques, schools, hospitals, businesses, and residences to Hamas' extensive network of terror tunnels, and storing munitions in those places, Hamas guaranteed that Israel's exemplary efforts to avoid killing non-combatants (praised by West Point's Major John Spencer) would be guaranteed to be less than 100% effective.

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Momin's avatar

Stop this BS hasbara. World knows your reality well now. The whole zionist project is based on the monsterous lie of "people without a land". The very same people they are trying to evict from their land a century later. Pure EVIL !!

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javahut's avatar

What a load of BS Israeli propaganda. Israelis are indoctrinated from birth to hate and abuse Palestinians. "Terror tunnels"? Flatly ridiculous and absurd. Those "terror tunnels" are on their own land. If Israel didn't create "terror skies" with F-16s and drones, "terror ground" with tanks and high tech military weapons... on Palestinian land... they wouldn't need the tunnels to hide from the Israeli terrorists abusing and killing them every day of their lives for 100+ years.

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Toby Block's avatar

From Major John Spencer, head of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point's Modern Warfare Institute (as posted on X (formerly Twitter)

John Spencer

@SpencerGuard

And after October 7, any political or military leader who believed Hamas could be swiftly dismantled—or that its infrastructure was anything less than deeply entrenched—was never a serious student of war. Hamas spent decades transforming Gaza into a fortress: a vast subterranean network of tunnels, a militarized landscape of civilian infrastructure, and a society indoctrinated for jihad. This was not a rogue insurgency. It was an autonomous warfighting entity—an entire region engineered for protracted conflict.

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huey's avatar

You will come up with any excuse for your mass murder.

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Toby Block's avatar

It is well known that Hamas fighters are sheltered in the tunnels, but the sverage Gazan is not. When asked why HAmas did not provide shelters for Gazans, the reply was that UNRWA, not Hamas, is responsible for protecting the Gazans.

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javahut's avatar

There's not room for 2.2 million people in the falsely labeled "terror tunnels." And even if your absurd premise were true (it's not), it's still exactly nothing compared to cowardly Israeli terrorists murdering poor people who have nothing every day of the week with F16s, bombs, tanks, etc. Yet your here complaining about tunnels. Only Jewish Israeli zealots could come up with such nonsense and expect people will buy that BS.

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Toby Block's avatar

2.2 million people in Gaza? And people are saying Israel is committing genocide because Hamas' "Ministry of Health" is reporting a death count of tens of thousands (and not distinguishing between combatants and civilians; including people who died of natural causes; labelling anyone under 19 as a child (but not admitting that Hamas runs summer camps where children are given weapons and taught to us them).

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javahut's avatar

The lame excuses for Israel's endless abuse and murder of poor Palestinians never stops. Most U.S. citizens and, yes, military leaders have been indoctrinated by the huge BS Israeli propaganda machine for decades. Everyone else in the entire world can see with their own eyes the atrocities Israel inflicts on Palestinians daily. You'd have to be willfully blind, racist, and just plain ignorant not to.

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huey's avatar

Are you really that guillible and think anybody here will fall for your

sick bull crap.

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huey's avatar

Stop with your tunnel vision excuses.

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huey's avatar

You are a blind Israeli stooge.

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Toby Block's avatar

Does name calling make you feel smart? Check the writings of Major John Spencer (Hamas' entire strategy depends on its fortifications) and Bassem Tawil (What do the Palestinians want? Not a state of their own but the destruction of the nation-state of the Jews.

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huey's avatar

Does targeting and killing Palestinian children by air strikes and brave snipers

make you feel brave?

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Toby Block's avatar

Children are dying because Hamas has made it impossible for Israel's exemplary efforts to avoid harming civilians has been gauranteed to be less than 100% effective by Hamas' embedding its fortifications amid the populace (e.g., munitions stored in homes, missiles fired from schoolyards, munitions buried in hospital parking lots and "safe areas" supposed to house Gazans following evacuation orders from the IDF.

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hierochloe's avatar

For those reading this shite that don't know any better, Israeli efforts to avoid harming civilians are non-existent compared especially to US military - the reality is quite the opposite and well documented in many places. "Exemplary" is a fucking lie.

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hierochloe's avatar

Spencer gets regularly wrecked in debates on this issue - citing him here is like sharting yourself.

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Curtis Josue's avatar

This GENOCIDE is a result of the Israeli’s brutal occupation of a people for decades. No amount of cope you say will change reality

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Gregory S Moss's avatar

Toby Blocked

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huey's avatar

Stop making an ASS out of yourself.

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Ellen Shellstrom's avatar

It’s like something out of ‘War of the Worlds’ , one feels so terrified just reading this

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