I don’t believe in that Critical Theory shit, but to say that the people living in the open-air prison that is Gaza, where roughly half the population is under the age of 18 (i.e., didn’t vote for Hamas) and yet are subject to collective punishment sounds an awful lot like oppression to me. What’s more, how can anyone think such conditions will produce anything other than some pretty fucked up people capable of doing really fucked up things? Subject any people to such conditions - whether Palestinians, Chinese, Americans or whoever - and I bet the outcome wouldn’t differ much.
Egypt is to the south of the Gaza Strip. It too blockades it. It's a joint venture between Muslim Egypt and Jewish/Muslim Israel (Yes because despite rhetoric about apartheid, Israeli Arabs are equals in Israeli society. They have been members of the Knesset. They have bene a part of the governing coalition. Arab Israelis make up half the medical professionals in the country. They have room to advance and be equals). So the issue is not about collective punishment as much as it is about Hamas. Think about all the rockets sent against Israel. Think about the billions in aid given. If all that had not been spent on military weapons to destroy Israel, Gaza would be another Singapore now.
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I find it interesting, but sadly not a bit surprising...
- 19/10/2023 05:24:33 PM
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Is that right?
- 19/10/2023 05:43:12 PM
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Schools, mosques, refugee camps, and at least one hospital were hit with airstrikes prior to this.
- 19/10/2023 09:54:15 PM
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The WSJ is reporting Saint Porphyrius church, a famous orthodox church was blasted
- 19/10/2023 10:52:58 PM
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Congressman (fmr) Justin Amash lost family members in this Church bombing, link
- 21/10/2023 05:58:11 AM
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Hospitals have external oxygen tanks and the blast was in the parking lot.
- 19/10/2023 10:55:58 PM
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If all of that is true, and I’m not saying it isn’t, how are 500-plus 200-plus dead?
- 19/10/2023 11:11:11 PM
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The current US intelligence estimate is 100-300 dead leaning towards the lower figure.
- 19/10/2023 11:34:25 PM
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I wish Israel had bombed that hospital, and done so intentionally.
- 20/10/2023 01:46:49 PM
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People believe what their taught anti-Semitism teaches them to believe.
- 20/10/2023 02:39:19 PM
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What is amazing is how opinions here have split by party affiliation.
- 20/10/2023 02:53:41 PM
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There is absolutely nothing amazing about it.
- 20/10/2023 03:17:27 PM
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I believe there's a little more to it than that.
- 20/10/2023 03:46:24 PM
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Sure, but does it even matter at this point?
- 20/10/2023 05:58:32 PM
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Never forget
- 20/10/2023 06:16:25 PM
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Go fuck yourself
- 20/10/2023 06:43:41 PM
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Piss off Roland
- 20/10/2023 07:25:18 PM
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I am cursing Greg for he is one man
- 20/10/2023 07:35:01 PM
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Actually I know that Israel has a right to exist and its people have a right to the land.
- 20/10/2023 07:38:31 PM
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Found the anti-semite.
- 20/10/2023 07:30:25 PM
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I was born failed
- 20/10/2023 07:32:41 PM
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Sweetie darling,
- 20/10/2023 07:39:42 PM
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you are the one who is keep on bringing dionysus and the world spirit into this. You are mad *NM*
- 20/10/2023 07:44:55 PM
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You think you're unique?
- 20/10/2023 07:40:24 PM
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So people who are 14 in Gaza, where are they supposed to go?
- 20/10/2023 07:45:41 PM
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Ask the surrounding Arab countries, for once. *NM*
- 20/10/2023 07:47:13 PM
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And who killed a former president of Egypt? It was before the 14 year olds birth
- 20/10/2023 07:52:23 PM
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Re: Never forget
- 20/10/2023 07:09:51 PM
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People believe what fits best with the ongoing narrative.
- 20/10/2023 03:51:31 PM
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The first assumption that the IDF and US are obviously lying is the issue. *NM*
- 20/10/2023 04:07:29 PM
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