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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Thu Aug 21 10:52:35 2014, in response to Re: An Article Worth Reading: Why They Hate Israel, posted by Nilet on Wed Aug 20 19:28:40 2014. A good chunk of that is simply not true.Correct, if the word that refers to what you wrote. The blockade existed prior to 2007 (in fact, under international law, there's little distinction between the official occupation that ended in 2005 and the de facto occupation thereafter) I can't find the MFA fact sheet on this right now and had to settle for this, but history and international law simply aren't on your side. The fact you conveniently ignore Egypt's blockade of Gaza is also very telling. Israel damn well does indiscriminately shoot at schools, mosques, and hospitals— they just declare them "military targets" first and pretend that somehow changes anything. Proff? If a Hamas militant is using the land next to a school, mosque, or hospital as a launching ground for rockets, or storing them in the aforementioned school, mosque, or hospital, how is that building not a military target? If Gaza unilaterally disarmed, they'd end up like the West Bank— natives living in fear of encroaching Israeli "settlers," second-class citizens in an apartheid state behind a wall. Incorrect. Most Israelis favor the creation of an independent Palestinian state. Most independent states have established borders that must be crossed at designated locations. It isn't unreasonable to expect that a Palestinian state would have that sort of arrangement with Israel. Which is it going to be? Israel takes steps to make an independent state and rid itself of the burden of having millions of people that Israel doesn't want in its state and who don't want to be in Israel, or Israel heads on a path to suppressing a minority population that supposedly wants a state but never takes the chance to create one on its own? You can't have it both ways. And claiming Gaza is at fault for being deliberately impoverished by Israel is both disgusting victim-blaming and a basic failure of causality— Gaza only considered electing Hamas because Hamas was the only entity providing the vital services that Israel was cutting off. The Palestinian people have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. They are political pawns, used by the rest of the Arab world (and by naive morons such as yourself) in an ongoing campaign to legitimize Israel with the outlandish notion that someday, they will succeed. You only further their plight by "supporting" them in the name of being anti-war. If this was the punishment for not fully supporting the governing power where I lived, I might vote for it too, even if I didn't want to. |
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