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In reply to the discussion: Israeli soldiers play with Gaza women's underwear in online posts [View all]Beastly Boy
(9,836 posts)And, for a good reason, it appears.
The State of Palestine, as proposed by the UN partition of Britain's mandatory Palestine after its mandate expired, never came into existence. The reason being, as I suspect you well know, as you do the "heretofore lived peacefully with their Jewish neighbors" to be a lie, that the Palestinians rejected the idea of having their on state along side their Jewish neighbors' state.
The land intended for the Palestinians was indeed stolen, but not by Israel: the West Bank was annexed by the State of Jordan, and Gaza was annexed by Egypt in 1950,shortly after the five Arab states of the Arab League invaded the State of Israel and lost the war in 1948. Israel occupied the West Bank previously stolen by Jordan and the Gaza strip previously stolen by Egypt in the 1967 war, as Jordanian and Egyptian territories, respectively. And the Palestinians who chose to remain in the State of Israel, currently numbered at 2 million, were not rousted off anywhere, and are enjoying full rights and responsibilities of Israeli citizenship.
You may also recall that Israel unilaterally disengaged from Gaza in 1985, and shortly thereafter there wass a civil war in Gaza between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, with Hamas taking over the Gaza strip.
These are well known and well documented facts, and disregarding them in favor of a made up narrative you are offering, full of hyperbole and metaphors as I expected all along, is pretty telling, if not unexpected.
The only thing I find mildly amusing in your post is the presumption to speak for the world. But that is not unexpected either.