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SCantiGOP

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10. Ask yourself one question
Mon Oct 9, 2023, 12:26 PM
Oct 2023

Would you view this differently had you emigrated from a Palestinian enclave 10 years ago, and most of your family remained in Gaza?

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The answer: THEY AREN'T. You intentionally conflate a discussion of 50 plus year of conflict with hlthe2b Oct 2023 #1
Some here do, and praised. question everything Oct 2023 #2
"praised?" I haven't seen that here n/t leftstreet Oct 2023 #3
Sending it to the 'greatest page" question everything Oct 2023 #16
You seem to see and reframe/reinterpret everything through the lense of what you want to see. hlthe2b Oct 2023 #5
I just tuned in to DU, and in scanning the threads I actually did see such statements ... Hekate Oct 2023 #9
And I have seen those justifying genocide against the Palestinian people (not just HAMAS) because hlthe2b Oct 2023 #32
You would think so redqueen Oct 2023 #34
We keep coming back to the fact that Hamas is embedded in the population ripcord Oct 2023 #4
What I've seen MorbidButterflyTat Oct 2023 #23
Hamas won a legislative election in 2006 Mosby Oct 2023 #47
The problem is that the discussions and claims are often Igel Oct 2023 #25
There is only one side if your history only goes back 4 days. milestogo Oct 2023 #6
+1 BuddhaGirl Oct 2023 #12
The context IS four days old. Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #14
Unfortunately doing what Palestinians and Israelis do. Sneederbunk Oct 2023 #7
Oh there are definitely two sides. And it's an easy and obvious choice which one I support. Bonx Oct 2023 #8
Ask yourself one question SCantiGOP Oct 2023 #10
Thousands of Gazans have been working in Israel. A lot of supplies as well as millions question everything Oct 2023 #19
Human Shields Johnny2X2X Oct 2023 #22
Yes it was claudette Oct 2023 #11
And Hamas just announced they will execute a hostage for each strike on Gaza Marius25 Oct 2023 #21
Link? MorbidButterflyTat Oct 2023 #24
Was just on MSNBC chyron Marius25 Oct 2023 #27
Again, as I said claudette Oct 2023 #29
How could Benedict make Jerusalem the capital of Israel? MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2023 #36
Here are the facts claudette Oct 2023 #37
Where in there does it say that Benedict made Jerusalem the capital? MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2023 #38
Here is part of it.... claudette Oct 2023 #39
Your own post says it all, MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2023 #40
The fact is claudette Oct 2023 #41
Israel decides their capital. Mosby Oct 2023 #51
Over the past decade SCantiGOP Oct 2023 #13
This doesn't explain anything other than Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #15
6,400 to 300 SCantiGOP Oct 2023 #33
They were* all people redqueen Oct 2023 #35
Tragic. Do you have any reason to believe that the efforts of Hamas and PA to protect their people Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #42
Were our Founding Fathers SCantiGOP Oct 2023 #44
This has absolutely nothing to do with my post, but I will reply anyway. Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #45
This message was self-deleted by its author SCantiGOP Oct 2023 #52
You are free to fabricate your own. Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #53
Rationalizing it I'd think, rather than explaining it. Torchlight Oct 2023 #49
sorry but they've been at war since 1967 - hence the occupied territories GenXer47 Oct 2023 #17
Ummm... PCIntern Oct 2023 #26
1967? sarisataka Oct 2023 #28
I think its immediate genesis lies further back, found within the Sykes-Picot Accords. Torchlight Oct 2023 #50
Right. And Israel has never evicted Palestinians, PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2023 #18
About 600,000 Jews escaped Arab countries after 1948. They were absorbed in the new question everything Oct 2023 #20
Saying there are claudette Oct 2023 #30
Bingo. roamer65 Oct 2023 #31
"Israel has never done this!" ??? krawhitham Oct 2023 #43
Israel has never done what Hamas has. Marius25 Oct 2023 #46
People who both sides this are no better than those who supported Osama Bin Laden Marius25 Oct 2023 #48
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