Reply #162: Thank you for making my point

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You call names without substance. You don't know me. I could certainly call you a bigot as you pre-judge. Where's your condemnation of the Egyptians who kept the Palestinians of Gaza in refugee camps for 20 years? There's where your Bantustans come from. But there's obvious no conversation here. You attack, you condemn, you accuse, yet you offer no alternative. For you the world started in 2007, there's never been any suicide bombers, coup attempts, hijacked airplanes, slaughtered Olympic teams, coordinated surprise attacks and invasions, or other countless crimes committed over the past 62 years. You entered the movie well after it started and chose your side based on the scene you came in on. "starve the people into submission"? If that's the plan they're doing a terrible job of it. Even Hamas says "There is no starvation in Gaza. No one has died of hunger." I agree that economy is in tatters and that is wrong But I'm not going to debate the legality of the blockade. The Palestinians deserve their own state to build as they see fit. They were well on their way until their leaders turned down a better deal than their cousins offered them all those years ago. The average Palestinian is a victim, as much from the rest of the Arab world who kept them as pawns as they are from Israel. Do you condemn Hamas? Do you condemn Egypt? Or even the Turks, who treat them like game pieces, and who provided the backing for the flotilla that left, by the way, from the illegally Turkish-occupied North Cyprus, from their illegal invasion that displaced 200,000 Greek Cypriots. That's all I'm saying. Quick to condemn Israel and no one else. Israel does something wrong and the world comes down. Someone does something wrong to Israel and nobody says a word. Others have committed far more heinous crimes, others are far worse off. I never said I hated Palestinians or that Arabs deserve oppression. I don't. They don't. I could easily accuse you of supporting the destruction of Israel but I don't because I hope you don't, even though you didn't say it.