Israel vs. Hamas by the numbers.

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14. and I have read scholarly works that demonstrate

the Philistines are not the genetic ancestors of today's Palestinians.

And, how did the Israelites get to the land of Israel and Judah? Before there was a King David.

Did they all just appear one day?

My point is... shit happens. Time to make the best future for yourselves that you can... look forward and not backward. Make peace with your enemies... and you might find you have a lot in common. I do not feel any hatred of totally white people, even though my parents suffered from some discrimination because of my mother's ancestry.

The people who carried out October 7 must be arrested and brought to justice. No matter how oppressed you feel, you cannot murder unarmed civilians ( including children and babies ) with knives, guns, and fire just because you feel anger at some group over what was done decades before you were born.

We wouldn't allow the terrorists to get away with that here. In fact we didn't. And we killed a lot more innocent civilians in a war that I didn't support as a result of a terrorist attack. We didn't end the terrorists, but we certainly killed a lot of them too.