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Around 9:30 p.m. in late February, a white Mazda pulled up near a game cafe in the Jenin refugee camp on the northern edge of the West Bank, where a crowd of boys and young men often gathered to socialize.
As the car stopped, a few people walked by on the narrow street. Two motorbikes weaved past in different directions. “Everything was fine at the time,” according to an eyewitness sitting nearby in the camp’s main square.
Then the car erupted in a ball of flame. Two missiles fired from an Israeli drone had hit the Mazda in quick succession, as shown in a video the Israeli Air Force posted that night.
According to the IAF, the strike killed Yasser Hanoun, described as “a wanted terrorist.”
But Hanoun was not the only fatality: 16-year old Said Raed Said Jaradat, who was near the vehicle when it was hit, sustained shrapnel wounds all over his body, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International-Palestine. He died from his injuries at 1 a.m. the next morning.
Jaradat is one of 24 children killed in Israel’s airstrikes on the West Bank since last summer, when the Israeli forces began deploying drones, planes, and helicopters to carry out attacks in the occupied territory for the first time in decades.
Nothing at all happened before even that… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936–1939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine
We can keep going back a thousand years if you want, this fight between the Muslims and Jews has records of attacks occurring between the two groups for at least that long.
At the end of the day the ottoman empire lost in WW1, the country got split up, and some of the people living there didn’t like the new UN plan and called in their friends to invade.
Multiple sides fought, Israel won. If we want to reverse that shit, we should be demanding the reversal of the US invasion (and return all north america to native americans), we should be demanding the return of Finland(and a few neighbors) to Russia, we should be demanding the Chinese return their country to it’s previous government (which is hilariously in Taiwan)… none of which we’re going to do. So why should only the Palestinians get special return to original owner treatment?
The simple answer is they shouldn’t.
Because bad things happened in the past, we must allow bad things to happen in the present and future. The logic is sound.
The border things in Israel happened a long time ago. Israel has had official control of the Palestinian territories for decades.
The bad things that are happening now are primarily caused by Hamas attacking Israel.
there’s the problem
The US government has had control of the states for decades.
Is that a problem too?
When exactly did we decide that borders were no longer allowed to change when someone lost a war?
Might makes right. Isn’t that the same irredentism that Putin used to invade Ukraine? 🇺🇦
Putin has changed the borders, and the world accepted it (See Crimea)
People don’t want it to be true, but it definitely is.
Sounds good to me. Let’s do it.
(Although Finland should keep its independence; it was captured from Sweden by Russia, before that it wasn’t a single country, though its inhabitants were pretty close culturally.)