"I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war. It was annihilation."

[Arazi]

77. The British bear responsibility, no doubt

Kashmir too but that’s another topic.

Hamas is a relatively new creation (in the past 35 years) with an explicit charter to exterminate all Jews. They’ve said they want war. They instigated a war. I take them at their word. They’re getting a war. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank appears to have figured out how to cope with their Jewish neighbors despite some serious issues with illegal settlements. You can’t just ignore the very different results of the same people living under extremely similar situations…

And if you’re going to go back into past history, you also cant ignore the fact that Jews, with thousands of years of generational trauma, are trying to co-exist next door with neighbors that have been trying to wipe them off the earth almost every day of their lives with daily rocket attacks, intifadas, terrorism, wars, pogroms etc. This has been their lived existence since Jews became a thing thousands of years ago, continuing in Israel today, and they’re not going to be bullied any longer.