I don't have time to delve deeply into them now, but I can spend a minute skimming the more egregious errors.
Israel is supposed to be a western style democracy doing things in a proper way, and yet they are willfully bolstering support for Hamas by strangling the Gaza economy and its citizens. If they really wanted to they could open up so that people could produce instead of being dependent on finished goods from outside. They would have jobs to go to instead of joining Hamas who offer healthcare with one hand and a weapon with the other.
Gazans used to have all of these things. In fact, the blockade came soon after Israel made an unprecedented concession of pulling out of Gaza completely, closing all settlements, but leaving their money-making greenhouses. Gaza responded with riots and rockets at first. Later they elected Hamas into power who spend their energy and money ramping up attacks against Israel. Only then was the blockade instituted. Conversely the people in the West Bank have been acting peacefully and their economy has been growing exponentially over the past decade. There's investment from Israel and outside states, and as a result of the improved situation Israe; has been closing checkpoints, such as the ones outside Jenin. Some newly won court cases will also force Israel to demolish some of their illegally built settlement outposts.
But that would mean actually treating arabs as equal citizens in what is effectively an apartheid state where only Jewish people are first class citizens.
You are aware that Gazans are not Israeli citizens, right? Because Israeli Arabs ARE equal citizens of Israel under the law. They vote, serve in the military if they choose, are represented in government, can live anywhere Jews can live and have equal rights to Jews by law.
as an excuse to bomb the place from the air and the sea, killing thousands of innocent people,
This simply does not occur.
Now, it's obvious that the IDF does not give a shit if there are human shields or not
If this were true then Hamas would not base whole strategies around the IDF's reluctance to kill civilians. ie: human shields. The whole point of using them is that they DO work against Israel. Which is the crux of their tactic of massing kids on the roofs of buildings that have been cited for destruction. The IDF calls ahead before bombing a building so that they can evacuate but instead some people get everyone to climb up on the roof and wave flags. This results in the airstrike being cancelled precisely because Israel DOES care about avoiding civilian deaths.
it's completely obvious that the policy of Israel is to make life so miserable in Gaza and on the west bank that the palestinians will eventually leave so that all the land falls into the hands of Israel.
Obvious to who? Israel just GAVE all of Gaza to the Palestinians. The facts show the reverse of your accusation.
Cause that's what god intends right?
Huh? WTF are you even talking about? If you think this conflict is about religion then you really haven't bothered to read much about it at all.
How would it look if the US military were letting people encourage them to commit genocide in Iraq on their social media?
The sad thing about this comment is that you get hung up on twitter feeds while ignoring the fact that MANY more people have died in this single war in Iraq at US hands than the sum of EVERYONE who has died on all sides of the WHOLE I/P conflict over the past 100 years. EXPONENTIALLY more people. And you're worried how it would look if the US military let people TALK about it online? Seriously?
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