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In reply to the discussion: Breaking - the US has called for an immediate cease fire in Gaza [View all]Avalon Sparks
(2,569 posts)Hamas can claim all it wants that their goal is to drive Israel out of existence, but they have neither the military nor the money to do so. Nor do they have the support of most of their Middle East neighbors except for Iran, so Israel as a country is not under threat.
I heard an interview recently during which the interviewee said that Israel must fight because its people have nowhere to go. Palestinians have nowhere to go either, yet Israelis think it is just fine to force them to leave all of Palestine. It is duplicitous to believe that only Israelis have rights to the land because some ancestors lived there many thousands of years ago but Palestinians whose ancestors have lived there as a majority for the most recent thousand years have no rights at all.