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

[ColinC]

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 didn’t begin with Hamas and likely won’t 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.