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That passage was from the first intifada, before hamas started staging attacks.

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Dan Osborn was an independent who nearly beat a Republican in a solid red district.

He posted on Twitter saying he was exaggerating for attention and admitted to having egomania. The way he was abused sounds nightmarish, all things considered he is well adjusted for someone who went through that.

You should suggest to him resources to learn game so he can find a prettier new wife. Italy has sky high infidelity rates so his ex wife may get karma eventually.

All settlements from Israel are illegal. Israel doesn’t allow Palestinians to build the vast majority of the time, when they do it outside the law to have somewhere to live it gets demolished.

Because that stopped before I was born. If Israel wasn’t demolishing Palestinian homes and gave them citizenship like Jordan then we can talk. In the mean time the occupation and settlements is torturing millions of Palestinians and puts Israelis at risk for when they try to defend themselves.

It isn’t in dispute, it is occupied.

It isn’t just the UN, it’s every international body of relevance. Expelling locals to build settlements on occupied land was classified as a war crime under the Geneva conventions. Even the Supreme Court of Israel has ruled it http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/legal-expert-if-israel-isn-t-occupying-west-bank-it-must-give-up-land-held-by-idf-1.449909 Jordan wanted the West Bank to be part of Jordan and gave the Palestinians Jordanian citizenship.

Every Israeli settlement in the West Bank is illegal under international law

The PA hasn’t staged an attack on Israelis in a decade and has been collaborating with Israel for years. Yet they continued to expand settlements.

No they weren’t. The aid is tracked and there are plenty of detailed reports showing where it is going. What Hamas takes is a small drop in the bucket of the damage the blockade does. Leaked emails from Israeli officials admit the blockade is designed to keep the economy on the brink of collapse. Being normal and good would mean accepting the norms set by the rest of the world and what is considered the legal and moral choice by international courts, and the entire rest of the world and major international courts have been saying israel needs to give Palestinians self determination and end the blockade and stop expanding settlements.

It didn’t help because it barely made a dent. Gaza was still on the verge of being unlivable, and as I said earlier violence in the West Bank was escalating. At the same time israel was trying to normalize with Saudi Arabia and the Muslim world without resolving the Palestine issue, meaning the Palestinians could be trapped with even less political support to negotiate freedom. So Hamas attacked to interrupt it, and to get hostages to negotiate the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners. Hamas is an Islamist Group, but they said the motivations for the attack and it’s not religious. You don’t have to be religious to resist horrific conditions, the PLO was a secular nationalist movement and resisted for decades. And your final point is more correct then you know, when the need for violent resistance is gone so usually goes the resistance, when apartheid ended in South Africa the militant group resistant it dissolved and became a political party.

When Hamas won the election they offered a long term ceasefire in exchange for lifting the blockade https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/01/israel Instead Israel tried to violently overthrow them and when it failed made the blockade even harsher to crush the economy. Independent analysis from groups like the world bank and UNCTAD consistently find what makes Gazans miserable is the crushing blockade. In the West Bank they face constant demolitions and violence, over 800 have been killed by IDF or settlers since Oct 7 https://www.ochaopt.org/data/demolition They have no means to defend themselves legally because they don’t have rights, and they can’t defend themselves through armed resistance because Israel will do what they do in Gaza. the Israeli government doesn’t have a right to control the lives of people who have no influence on its actions, and continue to take their land and expel them from it. You can’t justify it by saying that if they get freedom they might attack, by that logic no oppressed groups would ever be given freedom. And currently people are being attacked, the Palestinians by the israelis. examples like these occur constantly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Js0caPhMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SASvtv4q9js https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-girl-killed-west-bank-was-looking-out-window-her-father-says-2024-09-04/ If Israel tries to overthrow their government and completely crush their economy like they did in Gaza, they definitely will attack. But if they were actually given equal rights or at least a state so they could have self determination, most of the reason to fight would be gone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gXoGMrGH34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNetIhxFinw

Palestinians lived peacefully with Christian’s and Jews for centuries. What they didn’t want were people coming to take over their land. There are letters from the 1900’s from Zionists concerned that they were already seeing abuse of the natives. In 1919-20, armed Zionist militias drilling in plain sight, and parading through the streets of Palestinian cities chanting and holding banners announcing that all of Palestine would be theirs. The first major incident of violence was a riot of Arabs after they saw armed zionists marching. The first partition was after Zionists had expelled tens of thousands and killed thousands and were demanding the majority of the land with most of the important resources go to Jews, who were the minority. Obviously they wouldn’t accept that. They regret it because israel responds with mass murder and shoved their population into impoverished ghettos. If Germans told Jews to leave the country and they said no, so they then shoved Jews into ghettos, that isn’t the Jews fault for not accepting the deal even if their situation got worse, they have a right to their home. Before Hamas, the main enemy was the PLO, a secular movement that wanted a federation of equal rights for Jews and Palestinians. It is Israelis who would rather violently occupy millions of people rather than have to many non-Jews in their country. They literally expelled entire villages to maintain demographic majority, how is that not xenophobia? Palestinians originally were one of the most secular groups in the Middle East and didn’t even have an army. They didn’t even use terrorism either, the first incidents of terroristic attacks were by Zionist’s with things like king David hotel. Now it changed, because Zionists have inflicted so much constant violence on them the culture shifted. That’s like saying the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto uprising didn’t value their lives. Their lives were already destroyed. The pro peace left in Israel is a small ineffectual minority. The majority of Israelis have racist views about arabs, believe they deserve special privileges based on their race, and support massive war crimes against Palestinians. These are all shown in polling. https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-shows-large-swaths-of-israeli-youth-hate-arabs-back-revoking-citizenship/ https://archive.ph/LpDIZ https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05/30/israeli-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/ The situation prior to October 7: In Gaza, israel had maintained a blockade for decades, leaked emails show that they specifically did so to keep the economy on the brink of collapse. After killing hundreds to thousands in the 2008 and 2014 wars, and mass shooting on peaceful protestors in 2018 injuring thousands (one idf soldier bragged about shooting off 52 knee caps, analysis of the incident found they targeted medics, children, and the disabled). Gaza had one of the highest unemployment rates in the world at nearly half, most Gazans didn’t have access to clean water, the majority of Gazans showed signs of depression or PTSD. This is a population that includes 1 million children. Meanwhile, in the West Bank, where Hamas has next to no presence and the PA controls it and collaborates with israel. Israel’s occupation dictates the lives of Palestinians who have no right to vote or influence it, they can’t legally use the land, constantly have their homes demolished to build settlements, if they ever get charged they go to a military court with massive conviction rates and higher penalties, the punishment for throwing rocks is almost as long as the punishment Israelis get for murder in civilian courts. Israel keeps thousands of Palestinians in prison without charges. 2021 was the deadliest year for Palestinian children since the first intifada in the West Bank, 2022 was deadlier, 2023 was even deadlier than that already prior to Oct 7. Post Oct 7 it became 10x worse. Settlers and idf have killed hundreds and arrested thousands. they don’t surrender to stop bloodsheld, because the bloodshed was already happening. To add to that, prior to Oct 7 they offered a long term ceasefire in exchange for a state, and since oct 7 they’ve offered to give up the hostages multiple times in exchange for a ceasefire, prisoner swap, and withdrawal from Gaza. They also offered to lay down arms in exchange for a state. https://apnews.com/article/hamas-khalil-alhayya-qatar-ceasefire-1967-borders-4912532b11a9cec29464eab234045438 You’re basically saying “we’re killing them, so why don’t they give up the hostages but let us continue killing them slower?” - the Palestinians are Sunni. Shias were initially ambivalent on Israel but turned on them in the 80s after the siege of beruit and sabra and shatila. Now Iran is trying to exploit the conflict to counter US hegemony. - a study of Palestinian text books found they aren’t antisemitic https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-08-10/ty-article/.premium/no-palestinian-textbooks-are-not-antisemitic/0000017f-f1ff-d223-a97f-fdff7f7f0000 - Gaza has 2 million people, 1 million are adults, yet only 30,000 Hamas members. Israel on the other hand is almost an entirely militaristic society where nearly everyone has served. Stop mass killing in Gaza, stop blocking aid into Gaza. Stop expanding settlements in the West Bank. Stop voting down every UN resolution calling for a peaceful settlement or ceasefire. Agree to a hostage swap. Ideally give Palestinians the choice to become Israeli citizens with equal rights and send your leaders to independent international courts for war crime trials. If not that withdraw to the 67 borders and allow Palestinians to have a state on what’s left of their homeland. Nearly every country in the UN votes for this except the US and Israel.

https://www.972mag.com/moshe-yaalon-ethnic-cleansing-gaza/

And I saw a video of a Ukrainian psychologist who said he was treating many men who were depressed because their wives fled while they had to stay only for them to be contacted and told she wants a divorce because she met someone else. It is common.

I’m a little confused. The elder women lived with her right? Why didn’t they tell the husband?