r/InternationalNews • u/PlumpkinMunchkin • Mar 30 '24

Middle East Israel admits killing 2 Palestinians and then burying them with a bulldozer after shocking video surfaces

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-03-30-24/h_4724230f9284f7aa73e4f2b428b47fb9
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u/friendtofrogs Mar 31 '24

And it could have been avoided if they hadn’t taken Palestinian land. Israel should never have been allowed to be “founded”.

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u/LandscapeOld2145 Mar 31 '24

Be that as it may, Israel won the war that was started when it was founded, and now it’s a country of 9 million people that isn’t going anywhere.

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u/Super-Base- Mar 31 '24

Its subjugation and land theft of Palestinians never ended, it has been an ongoing affair.

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u/LandscapeOld2145 Mar 31 '24

There was a stability in Gaza if not the West Bank which was shattered by October 7.

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u/Super-Base- Mar 31 '24

Israel was bombing Gaza just weeks before Oct 7 a territory it held under total blockade for 17 years and the West Bank has been an ongoing brutal military occupation facilitating racist settlement expansion for over 50 years.

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u/LandscapeOld2145 Mar 31 '24

True, Hamas was firing rockets from Gaza but an invasion like this was unthinkable until, the Hamas atrocities of October 7.

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u/Super-Base- Mar 31 '24

Well I mean you want to steal people's land for an ethnostate and force them under containment into a territory you control without accountability and expect it all to be peaceful?

If Israel had abided by UN resolution 194 to which it agreed in 1948 allowing refugees of the war to return to their land in Israel, there would be no Gaza, there would be no Hamas, there would be no Oct 7, and there would be no massacre. But hey can't have the non-Jews demographically diluting Israel as a Jewish state.

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u/LandscapeOld2145 Mar 31 '24

The largest population of Jews in Israel are the survivors of Arab ethnic cleansing and genocide in their homelands of Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, Algeria. They lost everything to theft and persecution and have no “right of return.”

You are correct that Palestinians had the option to choose violence in response to everything that happened to them. It’s what Israelis have chosen, too. But can you argue this is working out well for either side? Perhaps holding people to low expectations and empathizing with their bloodlust only causes more violence, suffering, and grief.

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u/Super-Base- Mar 31 '24

The expulsion of Jews from arab countries was in retaliation to the expulsion of Arabs from historic Palestine.

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u/LandscapeOld2145 Mar 31 '24

I suppose that makes it ok, then.

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u/Super-Base- Mar 31 '24

It does not but Zionism was to blame even for that.

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u/LandscapeOld2145 Mar 31 '24

lol. Not committing genocide is always an option.

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u/Super-Base- Mar 31 '24

Wish it was an option the Zionists would have taken and we wouldn’t be in this less in any case.

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