Nation that always cries it is a victim. Readies its army to expand mission creep.

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23. I've read at least four books, three of them by Jewish writers, on Israel's history and founding.

In 1948, instead of acknowledging that Palestinians occupied the land that Israel had been given by the British, the government sent its soldiers to evict Palestinians with no notice and bulldozers to destroy their homes and possessions. Over 750,000 Palestinians were forced into refugee camps with little more than the clothes on their backs. They were not a nomadic people. Their ancestors had lived on that land for thousands of years. Of course, Palestinians responded with their own violence. And so began over 75 years of violence from both sides.

Israel’s first leader, David ben Gurion, spoke openly about the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, with the goal of forcing them all to go to other countries and leave all of Palestine to Israel. That goal was far beyond the 1948 plan for two states, but it seems as though Netanyahu is determined to fulfill ben Gurion’s goal, and since Palestinians want their own state and culture, he is simply murdering as many of them as possible and making Gaza completely unlivable for them. That is genocide, and it is to be condemned no matter who is perpetrating it.