For mental health reasons, I had taken myself out of most political topics. But lately there seems to be a surge of talk about Palestine and Hamas (forgive me if I spelled this wrong). I do know it’s something to do with land rights, but it also seems to be so much more at the same time. I’m not trying to start any fights. I just want to understand. Thank you.

  • samokosik@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    Not really.

    Basically there were arguments about land for 70 years (arabs never agreed to any compromise). Then on 7th October, Hamas (a terrorist organization) attacked Israel and Israel responded (they had a right to) but it’s debatable whether the response was appropriate.

    And so there are big losses on both sides but more people from Gaza were killed.

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      1 year ago

      and Israel responded (they had a right to) but it’s debatable whether the response was appropriate.

      Are you kidding me? Their “response” was bombing ~2 million innocent people out of their homes and telling them that they shouldn’t have been there. Imagine if someone from Japan bombed China, and China’s response was bombing random people in Tokyo.

      Their response was absolutely not appropriate unless you love genocide. The situation is not nuanced, people act like it is so they don’t have to take a side.

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      1 year ago

      That does leave out the highly questionable ‘settlements’ in Palestinian territories…

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        1 year ago

        Israel left Gaza in 2005. There are no settlements there. Hamas is only in Gaza.

        Regarding the West Bank, according to the international law, some areas are illegally occupied. In addition, even the Supreme Court of Israel has ruled that Israel is holding West Bank under “belligerent occupation”.

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          The west bank counts as part of Palestine. That’s all I said. And to my knowledge Hamas uses those settlements to further their agenda of ‘Israel bad’.