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GenXer47

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17. sorry but they've been at war since 1967 - hence the occupied territories

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Mon Oct 9, 2023, 01:02 PM

Oct 2023

If Israel doesn't want to be at war then it should end the war.
No reasonable person would contend that there are two equal parties here. Israel has all the power, always has.
"Racism" is always defined based on which group has the power. An American Black man's resentment of white cops, for example, isn't racist.
Israel is a modern-day colonialist power in an age when we seem to finally be awakening to the evil of colonialism. Alliance with them is actually holding back our own national healing. Instead, a huge segment of our population want to emulate them with border walls, a militarized police force just like the IDF, and even "bombing Mexico". A white, christian ethnostate in the model of Israel. NO THANKS.

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No! There are not two sides: Not when terrorists enter rooms full of people and, yes [View all] question everything Oct 2023 OP

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