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In reply to the discussion: "I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war. It was annihilation." [View all]ColinC
(9,625 posts)80. It really isn't another topic considering they have never not been occupied and the territory
was simply passed on to somebody else to do the occupying. The war(or occupation -whichever term you prefer) has continued for 107 years. It didnt begin with Hamas and likely wont end with them either.Sticking to modern history and the beginning of the current conflict requires us to start at the British occupation and consider the conflict in terms of their illegal occupation passed onto a new occupying force.
The issue of involving Jewish people on the tail end of the holocaust is really separate from the regional politics that defined the conflict -until the political decision was made to arbitrarily bring another large group of people into a conflicted territory, complicating an already messy geopolitical clusterfuck.
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"I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war. It was annihilation." [View all]
ColinC
Feb 2024
OP
Hard to imagine trying to run a hospital and provide any but the most basic level of medical care in these conditions
dutch777
Feb 2024
#1
It is your claimn that Hamas wanted to see the population exterminated and the land laid to waste?
Chainfire
Feb 2024
#51
Israel is murdering children, starving them and depriving them of sanitary water
ColinC
Feb 2024
#73
Much as the Koreans and Phillipinos would likely consider their occupations war.
ColinC
Feb 2024
#68
Actually let's start at Israel violating the Oslo Accords following Sharon's death
ColinC
Feb 2024
#37
It really isn't another topic considering they have never not been occupied and the territory
ColinC
Feb 2024
#80
My personal feelings have nothing to do with the fact that war is annihilation.
Irish_Dem
Feb 2024
#57
I think justifying war crimes by way excusing attacks on civilians "the way things are"
al bupp
Feb 2024
#67
You seem unaware of how war works. The Pearl Harbor attack killed 68 US civilians
EX500rider
Feb 2024
#52
"Israel has probably killed far more people in retaliation for the killing of less than 2,000 people, than the US..
EX500rider
Feb 2024
#55
What do the innocent Palestinians whose families are murdered by the IDF have to do with Hamas?
ColinC
Feb 2024
#29
Again. I don't understand what that has to do with the people being murdered by the IDF?
ColinC
Feb 2024
#53
What do the innocent civilians in all wars have to do with their government?
EX500rider
Feb 2024
#56