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The same folks operating an apartheid and open air prison? The same ones that did the Nakba?
Yes, absolutely. The Israelis are mega racist
An open-air prison of Gaza's own making, mind you. Probably an unwise idea to attack Egypt--whoops.
Stop spreading misinformation. The blockade started before Hamas took charge; it started at the same time as the Israeli disengagement ended.
Your source?
-Wikipedia. For context, Hamas won the elections on 25 January 2006.
may you link the article? I'd like to read it for myself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip
That isn't my point though. My point is that Gaza's seclusion is from their own doing.
If Palestinian Terrorists never attacked Eygpt or used its humanitarian crossings to smuggle weapons and resources--Then Gaza wouldn't be in its predicament of being a prison.
So there's a lot wrong with this, but the short of it is: Collective punishment is a war crime.
Glad you agree. now tell that to hamas and jihadists.
In war between nations, all punishment is collective punishment. That's how war works. Your point of view might seem more compelling if they were not currently a belligerent territory under a hostile government actively launching bloody attacks against Israel. Blockades, fortifications, restricting movement, etc., are intended to deny the enemy resources that they would otherwise use to kill Israelis.
If Gaza sues for peace then that changes things. While they remain at war, all of these actions are totally reasonable. This is about safety, not punishing civilians.
Like I said before, this is due to the blockade. The blockade started before Hamas was in control of the strip, and wasn't strengthened in response to a particular attack against Israel (those started in earnest in 2007 after the blockade evolved into the form we know today). They're at war because peace isn't working. It didn't work in 1995, it didn't work in 2008 and it didn't work in 2014 (when Netenyahu actively opposed it, mind you).
How dare they contain the belligerent monoethnic nation that's actively trying to genocide them. What jerks, must be racism, or apartheid, or some other shocking term you want to call their self defense.
The Arabs that stayed in Israel through the nakba seem to be doing pretty well, gee, maybe this situation isn't about race after all, but rather it's about safety like they have always claimed it is.
Do you even read the comments you're responding to?
They just want to return to their homes they were violently expelled from. Yes, it would be within their rights to use violence to expel the literal theives from their homes.
These terms are true. It is a shocking situation, especially Gaza. Israel bombed their airport, won't let them go too far off the coast, walled them off, control everything about what goes into Gaza (hell, they couldn't get pasta at one point), 97% of the water they get isn't potable. The food they do receive is calorie tracked and once described by Israel as "putting the Palestinians on a diet". They can't get concrete to rebuild shit Israel blows up regularly. That shit is fucking bleak.
It is, the oppressor is trying to keep the land they stole from the oppressed. It also hasnt stopped, and it's obvious that it's a continuous project. The ones who are there now know they're on borrowed time and many will resist.
I'll just mention that literally hundreds of thousands of people were expelled from Palestine. You should read more about the Nakba before saying stuff like that.