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Also in Gaza over 1 million Muslim children were kept in a blockaded prison for decades, so harsh that over 50% of the population had depression and only 4% had access to clean water, then israel bombarded it repeatedly to the point where it had the largest child amputee population in the world and the majority of children had ptsd, then they had a mass scale peaceful protest where Jewish soldiers bragged about how they had competitions to see who could shoot off the most kneecaps of protestors and over 200 were killed and 30,000 injured, then in the past year israel bombarded them more than ever before creating the most bombed land mass in possibly world history where they killed 17,000 Muslim children, left 35,000 orphaned, and over 10x more with injuries such as deafness, blindness, and amputations which were usually done without anesthesia because israel blocked it from entering. At the same time in the West Bank where Jews can vote and are tried in civilian courts, Muslims cannot vote and are tried in military courts with a 90% conviction rate so harsh the punishment minors receive for throwing rocks is similar to the punishment Jews receive for committing murder, where the majority of Muslim male has spent time in prison and they face regular murders from Jewish settlers and IDF to the point where 2021 saw the deadliest year for Muslim children there in a decade, 2022 beat that record, and by September 2023 had beat that record with nearly 60 children killed, and since then hundreds have been killed or driven from their homes. But as always your reaction is to blame them for their religious beliefs. Basically when Muslims make people pay taxes you say they should give up their religion and anything that happens is their fault, and when Muslims face mass murder and apartheid you again say they should give up their religion and anything that happens is their fault. It’s not an issue of understanding, it’s an issue of bigotry, you see indigenous people being murdered and your reaction is to attack their religion, not the people killing them.

That was a thousand years ago, and the Muslims allowed Jews to return when they had been expelled by Christians.

Jews Muslims and Christian’s lived together peacefully in Palestine prior to Zionism.

Displaced Palestinians have begun to return home

This is a disaster for democrats. 170 million Americans, mostly anti-trump or non-political, just got a message saying Trump brought their favorite app back.

ISIS and Hamas are both religious extremist groups but that’s where the similarities end. Isis carried out attacks across the world, Hamas hasn’t attacked anyone outside of historic Palestine. Isis conducted a genocide, Hamas didn’t. There is much more record of mass atrocities from Isis than Hamas. The examples of Hamas sadism are about as bad as examples of IDF sadism.

That’s actually arguably a bigger issue for Israelis right now. The constant attacks from Arabs forced social cohesion, but it’s not working anymore. If the ceasefire actually sustains it’s looking like their society will internally snap.

If that was mainly the reason it wouldn’t have happened in the first place. Its like how in the US people voted out Trump but after inflation rose under Biden they voted Trump back in because many figured he may have been better all along. The population was moving more secular but after a massive defeat and stagnant economic growth more of them decided the radicals may have been right after all. Actually the same thing happened among Palestinians. They were one of the most secular groups in the Middle East. For decades their main armed resistance was a secular nationalist movement. When that failed more of them thought to give religious radicals like Hamas a chance.

They saw it as a failure because of how disastrous the 1967 war was for them

- Iran took hostages in response to the US challenging its revolution, and the US challenged the revolution because Iran started funding anti Israel groups - Iran seeks to expand itself through proxies to defend itself against hostility from Israel and the US which reacts to that. The US and Israel try to surround Iran so it countered it by funding rebel groups to surround Israel and pester US troops. - Iran offered to turn the Middle East into a nuclear weapon free zone and later signed a nuclear deal but the US blocked both because of pressure from israel - Saudi Arabia is also a repressive theocracy and the U.S. is fine with it - Iran wants to interact with capitalist interests which is why it pursued deals to remove sanctions

What reason does the US have to be enemies with Iran aside from Irans animosity towards Israel?

Both 9/11 and Isis were indirect responses to Israel. Secular Arab nationalism was gaining popularity until the Arab states lost the 1967 war, and it caused a rise of radical Islamist beliefs which later inspired extremists such as Osama Bin Laden When Osama Bin Laden was 14 years old he would watch news reports of Israeli attacks on Palestinians crying, later he said he was inspired to attack the US towers based on Israel’s seige of Beirut in 1982. He said in his letter US support for Israel was a major motivation in attacking the U.S. 9/11 was used as a pretext for the US to attack Iraq, this was supported and encouraged by Netanyahu, the attack on Iraq left a vacuum for Al Queda to expand and ISIS later grew from that

It’s the opposite. Leftists like Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein argue the US controls israel for its benefit. Realists like John Mearsheimer argue israel controls the US for its benefit at the detriment of US interests.

The Middle East isn’t of critical importance, the US benefits from a quiet Middle East so it can focus its resources in Asia. Israel keeps bogging it down. There wasn’t a anti U.S. middle Eastern terrorism problem until Israel Israel was caught selling U.S. tech to China If Israel was so important it wouldn’t need such a strong lobby to get the US to support it.

They are only releasing 33 in phase 1. So they’ll still have 61.

They only agreed to give the last of the hostages in phase 2 when all idf pull out of Gaza