• NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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    Now tell me how many of those people are dependent on international aid to survive, and how many are malnourished. And while you’re at it how many of them need medicine that they can’t get because of the blockade and have to use the tunnels, if they can get it at all.

    Edit: And oh I forgot: How many of them lost family members or their homes to Israeli airstrikes.

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      What did Hamas do to help these people with all the humanitarian Qatari money it received? What does Hamas do now with the fuel and humanitarian aid it receives ?

      It built tunnels, rockets to massacre and kill in it’s one goal, to completely drive the last of the Jews from the land. It lives underground while people above ground live in hell.

      It’s sad what happened and continues to happen to the people of Gaza. I wish they will overthrow the terrible organization that rules them and start using the aid money for good

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        What are they supposed to do? Gaza is only allowed to buy things Israel allows them to buy, only allowed to sell things Israel allows them to sell (or does it just not allow them to export their products? I’m not sure). No government can function under these conditions. Hence the international aid, that surprise surprise Israel also limits. We can blame Hamas’s domestic policy all we want, but under these conditions they never had a chance. Gaza just doesn’t have the resources to survive without contact with the outside world.

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        I spent a year living in Israel during the Second Intifada, studying the conflict and talking to everyone I could, Jew, Arab, etc. I do a pretty good impression of a constipated Ariel Sharon giving a speech, “Anaaacchnu tzrichim [labored grunting] bitachon b’Israel v’hakol olam!”

        You have a well-informed and factual view of the situation. Must be because you are an Israeli ex-pat and (let me guess) are secular. It’s disheartening to see propaganda-fueled idiots who have zero idea what they are talking about arguing with you–who wants reform in Israel–all because they have a black-and-white view of right and wrong, see Islam as “the underdog” that is therefore allowed to commit atrocities, and had hiphop artists telling them to “free Palestine” since 1995.