• @betheydocrime
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    138 months ago

    If you honestly think this began on October 7th, 2023, then you should genuinely stay out of this discussion until you educate yourself on the last 100 years of history.

    • @[email protected]
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      -48 months ago

      i mean if you want to bring up Palestine losing two separate wars and thus losing their land, and Hamas refusing every single peace treaty (even though the West Bank accepted the terms), feel free.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        -18 months ago

        Bruh are you calling what’s going on in the West Bank peace? These people are the victims of an explicit genocide campaign.

        • @[email protected]
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          38 months ago

          No. I said that West Bank accepted peace treaties but Hamas refused them every single time, thus ending the treaties.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness
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            08 months ago

            I’ll engage just in case, but yeah this is very wrong. First, until 2006 the West Bank and Gaza were under one government, so the idea that the West Bank alone accepted any terms is very interesting, to say the least. Second, Israeli bullshit peace offers are too many so just say which one you want and I’ll explain why it was bullshit. The only exception was the Oslo accords in 1993-1995, but those fell through when the Israeli PM was fucking assassinated by a Zionist and replaced by Bibi, who called the whole thing off.

          • TheDankHold
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            -28 months ago

            The West Bank isn’t ruled by Hamas, they have zero presence there. You have a very limited perspective on this.

              • TheDankHold
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                08 months ago

                Hamas can’t refuse a treaty for a territory they do not rule. Your argument is still ridiculous on its face.

                  • TheDankHold
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                    28 months ago

                    Why is Hamas affecting a treaty between two parties that aren’t Hamas? You keep restating the premise but you haven’t justified why your premise is valid. The reality is that Hamas is a great excuse for Likud and the Zionist coalition to push for the one state solution they want without as bad of a pr storm.

    • @SCB
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      -108 months ago

      This war most assuredly began then as 0 IDF forces were in Gaza for years prior.

      • TheDankHold
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        08 months ago

        This is the manipulative framing people love to use but anyone with even a passing understanding of what’s happening can see how manipulative it is.

        You’re referring to Gaza which has been under blockade/siege since Israel withdrew. By framing it how you have you ignore the reality that even without a direct occupation Israel is crushing Gaza from a health perspective, a social perspective, and a financial perspective.

        Not to mention Gaza isn’t the only Palestinian territory. In the time since Israel began sieging Gaza, the West Bank has seen upwards of fifty Palestinians killed per year by Israeli settlers, all backed by IDF soldiers. This is in a territory without Hamas by the way.

        It takes some serious ignorance to act like Israel isn’t directly responsible for the abject poverty of Palestinians.

        • @SCB
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          8 months ago

          You’re referring to Gaza which has been under blockade/siege since Israel withdrew. By framing it how you have you ignore the reality that even without a direct occupation Israel is crushing Gaza from a health perspective, a social perspective, and a financial perspective.

          If Hamas wasn’t stealing from Gazans, and didn’t exist as a political leader solely for the purpose of denying normalization of relations and Palestinian statehood while enforcing a less secular, more extremist state, you might have a point here.

          Unfortunately for everyone, that’s why Hamas exists.

          • TheDankHold
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            -18 months ago

            Why are you blaming an extremist militia for the circumstances that created them? Hamas didn’t exist before Israel started colonizing both Gaza and the West Bank. Not to mention the resources Zionists like Netanyahu funneled towards Hamas to help them get more powerful than the moderate coalition.

            If Israel didn’t have Gaza under such an inhuman blockade/siege Hamas would be just as equipped, yet average citizens wouldn’t be starving in the streets.

            To not acknowledge the direct hand Israeli military and government has had in causing this is frustratingly naive.

            • @SCB
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              8 months ago

              Why are you blaming an extremist militia for the circumstances that created them?

              I blame terrorists for being terrorists

              The Gazan “blockade” was also a response to literal terrorism. So is the fact that Gaza is not a country.

              • TheDankHold
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                -18 months ago

                The Gazan blockade happened after decades of literal occupation and colonization. Ironically enough Hamas was the reason Israel stopped stealing territory.

                It wasn’t a response to terrorism. It was a continuation of their own apartheid policy under a more internationally favorable lens.

                It sounds like you’re using the existence of terrorists to justify the conditions that empowered these terrorists. Which is asinine and circular reasoning. Why not blame the people doing everything they can to create the scenario keeping hamas in power?

                Also, why do you think not being a sovereign state affects the fact that Israel is starving millions of people, a majority of them children?

                It’s mind numbing the lengths people will go to downplaying the abuse of innocents and try to push all the blame onto them and the extremists that thrive in the conditions they live within. It shows a complete lack of humanity or ability to understand human nature, wrapping your judgements up in geopolitical narratives spun to keep you busy.

                You stop an extremist group by showing those at risk that your group will give them peace and stability. Not by treating the entire region like criminals.

                No matter what you say to obfuscate, collective punishment on this scale is unequivocally a war crime.

                • @SCB
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                  18 months ago

                  This is not collective punishment lol.

                  Words have actual meanings

                  • TheDankHold
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                    -18 months ago

                    Yes they do:

                    Collective punishment is a punishment or sanction imposed on a group for acts allegedly perpetrated by a member of that group, which could be an ethnic or political group, or just the family, friends and neighbors of the perpetrator.

                    So when Israel cuts off water and food to 2.2 million people because an extremist org that is a minority of the population attacks them, how is that NOT collective punishment? When they callously bomb hundreds of women and children, including hostages, to get to a handful of actual fighters, how is THAT not collective punishment? When they bomb bakeries and hospitals and refugee camps, how is that not collectively punishing them? When they restrict their freedom of movement so they’re stuck in the equivalent of an open air prison? When they snipe journalists giving unfavorable coverage, children at a protest, and go in to brutalize religious practitioners in their place of worship?

                    I hope that you can learn from your own advice.