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You should address the point. Russia was concerned about N ATO. Israel was ACTUALLY attacked with brutality aimed at young people, children and citizens. Attacked by Hamas and Palistinians who supported Hamas. In fact Israel has been under attack from Gaza for many many years.
The PLO took money and paid terrorists pay for slay programs and also enriched themselves. Hamas took the rest and built terror tunnels and funded themselves. trump stopped funding after the Taylor Force act while afterwards Biden started payments again...which I bet funded 10/7
It only comes across that way if that's the narrative you're trying to push, Rob. When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, I guess.
What a fascinating revisionist history! It's hard to run an economy when you've been illegally displaced from your land, half your grandparents slaughtered by Israeli settlers, and then you're shoved into a confined area that is basically the world's largest open-air jail.
The restrictions on movement and goods in Gaza imposed by Israel date to the early 1990s.[1] After Hamas took over in 2007, Israel significantly intensified existing movement restrictions and imposed a complete blockade on the movement of goods and people in and out of the Gaza Strip.[2] In the same year, Egypt closed the Rafah border crossing.[3] The blockade's stated aims are to prevent the smuggling of weapons into Gaza and exert economic pressure on Hamas.[1] Human rights groups have called the blockade illegal and a form of collective punishment, as it restricts the flow of essential goods, contributes to economic hardship, and limits Gazans' freedom of movement.[2][4] The land, sea, and air blockade isolated Gaza from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory and the world.[5] The blockade and its effects have led to the territory being called an "open-air prison".[6][7]
Blockade of the Gaza Strip - Wikipedia
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Remember that Palestinians - whether Christians, Jews, or Moslems - all lived together relatively peacefully until Zionism conducted mass immigration programs to flood Palestine with Jews. Then when the critical mass was reached, the war and the pogroms stated, and the rest is history. The west turns a blind eye to it because after America broke Iran's democracy and installed the Shah and then that backfired into today's militant theocracy, they needed a new friend in the middle-east.
Basically the world has cared about the Palestinian people during this time.
There have been protests, campaigns, letters, all sorts of reporting on this issue for decades.
Today's protests are because the sheer scale of destruction has accelerated. While there might indeed be other worse human catastrophes looming in South Sudan and other areas of the planet - Israel's apartheid regime apparently has our backing and direct support! So I ask you? Do you support apartheid regimes? Did you condemn South Africa's white apartheid against blacks? Then what about Jewish apartheid against Arabs and Moslems? Why do so many Christian Americans support a racist concept anyway - a "Jewish state"? Why is Zionism so popular when it is inherently a racist concept at its very core? There is now a thing called Israel. I must accept history - and that this state exists. However I do not accept that it has to be a Jewish state. I support separation of church and state for a reason, and that applies to Christians, Jews and Moslems.
How did that work out for progressive?
I'm not sure what this has to do with the point. We're talking about why people choose to protest the things that they protest. The actual results are irrelevant.
Have you considered the possibility that you might be wrong? That the modern, secular state of Israel is not the "Israel" referred to in the Bible?
A tribal deity favors its own tribe? Unusual.
If the results remain unchanged, protests have no effect and are therefore pointless.
Yes, I have considered this on several occasions. If you believe that the modern state of Israel is not the "Israel" referenced in the Bible, please provide scriptural evidence. I am certainly open to reconsidering my position.
I see that you have identified as atheist under the faith category. As a result, I question the credibility of your perspective regarding the Bible.
Not exactly, as a single protest rarely changes anything. But again, we're not talking about whether protesting the war in Gaza is pointless, but rather why people choose to protest the war in Gaza rather than other similar conflicts.
Proving a negative is a logical impossibility.
It appears that you are unable to provide scriptural evidence supporting the claim that modern-day Israel differs from what is described in the Bible. Thank you for sharing your perspective; however, I do not find it compelling. As I mentioned, I am willing to reconsider my position if you can present relevant scripture. Based on our discussion thus far, it seems you have not provided any. I will continue to place greater trust in the word of God than in human opinions.
Your argument is that protesters demonstrate against the war in Gaza because they believe their actions can have an impact, whereas they might not protest other conflicts if they feel they cannot influence the situation. However, as you noted, the protests in 2024 did not lead to significant outcomes. Therefore, protesting against the conflict in Gaza or other conflicts may be viewed similarly in terms of their effectiveness.
