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In reply to the discussion: See with your own eyes [View all]

AloeVera

(4,008 posts)
30. Oh boy. How much time do you have?
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 11:15 AM
Oct 2025

I suggest you start with the 17-year BLOCKADE of Gaza by Israel, and what that did to its emerging economy, self-sufficiency, industry, agriculture, fishing and poverty and unemployment rates. None of it is good.

Why would you think women don't have the right to vote?

Palestinians highly value education and have one of the best literacy and graduation rates. Women comprise at least 60% of students in higher education and at least a quarter of faculty.

Israel destroyed all 16 universities in Gaza. Most of them by controlled demolition. Now imagine all those university students whose work and hopes are now also destroyed. Very sad and infuriating, no?

Palestinian students' education throughout the OPT is often interrupted or destroyed through killings, injuries, arbitrary arrests and detentions as well as the innumerable checkpoints and curfews Israel imposes. Yet they persist.

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See with your own eyes [View all] iemanja Oct 2025 OP
JFC leftstreet Oct 2025 #1
Someone posted a picture days of Gaza in 2023 and now and it brought tears to my eyes kimbutgar Oct 2025 #2
It's heartbreaking iemanja Oct 2025 #4
FUCK THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT Skittles Oct 2025 #3
How can anyone doubt there are war crimes and genocide being committed there? Bayard Oct 2025 #5
I do have a few questions.. homegirl Oct 2025 #6
Which of those questions have answers that genocide solves? rubbersole Oct 2025 #7
The area homegirl Oct 2025 #16
Well, according to our Dear Leader... rubbersole Oct 2025 #19
That is how homegirl Oct 2025 #24
Repression. rubbersole Oct 2025 #34
Thanks...lol AloeVera Oct 2025 #43
Occasionally, I see a post that is so spot on iemanja Oct 2025 #44
You can probably web search all of that and post it for everyone else here to see. ... littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 #8
The population was 2 million iemanja Oct 2025 #9
Women had the vote... homegirl Oct 2025 #18
Had because no one has been able to vote iemanja Oct 2025 #23
Oh boy. How much time do you have? AloeVera Oct 2025 #30
We can always count on you for an informed response. iemanja Oct 2025 #42
The Israelis are proud of this destruction RainCaster Oct 2025 #10
The Israeli government did not publish it, the free press that exists in Israel published it. jg10003 Oct 2025 #13
Do you know what the reaction to it is in Israel? AloeVera Oct 2025 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author jg10003 Oct 2025 #11
It's not genocide, it's war. jg10003 Oct 2025 #12
Israel continues to steal Palestinian lands in the West Bank questionseverything Oct 2025 #15
A realistic homegirl Oct 2025 #25
Diversionary tactics Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 #28
the topic is "what is genocide". jg10003 Oct 2025 #37
NO Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 #38
Wha Israel is doing in Gaza is the definition of genocide. Lonestarblue Oct 2025 #32
And Trump demands the Nobel Prize for peace? oasis Oct 2025 #14
Makes the demo easier to prep for their resort construction... Wounded Bear Oct 2025 #17
Exactly. trump jr. is salivating over this land. trump Gaza is in his dreams. Totally Tunsie Oct 2025 #20
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. Howard Zinn Ping Tung Oct 2025 #21
Genocide and war crimes malaise Oct 2025 #22
My god. underpants Oct 2025 #26
Step 1 complete. Now for step 2 usonian Oct 2025 #27
Israel Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 #29
The only thing missing is the billboard, gab13by13 Oct 2025 #33
Trump Gaza Resort. The Riviera... HE IS GOING TO DO THIS IcyPeas Oct 2025 #35
I see 10/7 as a suicide mission. maxsolomon Oct 2025 #36
That is illogical to the point of absurdity. AloeVera Oct 2025 #39
I'm not going to get on board with a LIHOP. maxsolomon Oct 2025 #40
If you accept the strategic provocation, which is pretty clear, then there is an element of LIHOP in that... AloeVera Oct 2025 #41
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