"Simply grown"
Ah, yes. All the Palestiniana who once lived in what is now Israel simply fled there to Gaza because they really like the weather.
Well, no, that's not what happened, per their own government:
in 1980, well after any warfare related population movements had stopped, there were only 650,000 thousand people in the strip, the increase by a factor of nearly 4 is due to internal factors and not anything Israel did.
With respect, you seem to have a somewhat slanted perspective of the situation here. The Israeli military does actually do what it can to limit civilian causalities, for an example they called in a warning to the AP when they were about to launch an airstrike at a Hamas target in the same builing the AP was in. On the other hand, Hamas's entire strategy is based around increasing collateral damage. It was not just a coincidence that they were operating out of the same building that housed the AP offices, to look at that same incident. And of course for years now Hamas has adopting a strategy of "just fire random unguided rockets at Israel and hope you hit someone", a tactic that is certain to result in far more civilian deaths than military.
I'm curious what you'd define as a reputable source. All I have to do to find info about it is Google "Israel demolishing Palestinian homes".
Those would be the ones rambling on about international treaties and occupied territories, a framing of events
you yourself reject, as in your view Israel has rightfully conquered that same territory, no?
And why is it not one of our close, age-old allies like France or the UK whose soldiers have fought side-by-side with ours in numerous wars? Why is it this small, strategically insignificant nation that hasn't even existed for a century yet? What do we get out of this that makes it worth it? Why do they deserve such a disproportionate amount of aid from us?
Because the French and brits have their own domestic defense industries they patronize, Israel does but it's far smaller, so we can send them money they can then use to buy stuff from us, and are in fact required to use to buy stuff from us.
We don't aid Israel to be nice, we aid Israel to help lockheed martin.
Also, you realize you're getting all worked up about 4 billion dollars, out of a total budget of like 5 trillion, right? This is the rough equivalent of you having a monthly budget of 10,000 dollars and being upset that your wife gives the kids 10 bucks a month for a netflix account or something.
Being pro-gun, pro-life, and anti-CRT actually benefits and affects Americans here at home. Being pro-Israel benefits no one but the Israelis.
Well, no, even aside from the fact US aid to Israel is not particularly selfless, we benefit from access to Israel intelligence gathering, can operate facilities of our own in the country (currently we have a ballistic missile detection radar set up) and could easily expand those facilities or construct additional bases if we needed it.
It's really a shame that the only ones who've caught on to what a scam our support for Israel is are a bunch of braindead progressives who are otherwise wrong about everything else.
Progressive's have not "caught on" to the scam, they've just gotten caught in an absurdly childish mindset that boils the entire argument down to "the underdog is always right because I can see the world through the lens of power dynamics."
That's not me joking, that's what they literally believe:
It’s a complex situation. They’re just protecting their homes. Hamas fired the rockets. Only democracy in the Middle East. You can be openly gay there. Does the world need that many olive trees? Those children threw rocks. They shouldn’t have built a house where a bulldozer might someday pass by. Arafat wasn’t a good guy. America needs a bulwark against Muslim extremism. Would you send them back to the desert to wander for another thousand years? And on and on it goes: whatever comes, they had it coming.
This is what the Zionists never understand: even if all of that bullshit was true, it doesn’t matter.
If every word that they have said about the perfidy and self-destruction of the Palestinians was correct, it would make no difference. The moral obligation falls on the dominant party, and Israel is beyond dominant. The mythmaking about all of the opportunities they squandered does not make a lick of moral difference. I don’t think, for a second, that the PLO was offered some amazing deal at Taba. This mythical amazing deal that, for some reason, the Palestinians declined and that the Israelis offered once and then decided they could never offer again, despite the fact that it has so often been represented as mutually beneficial. Let’s say that actually happened. So what? Is that supposed to comfort an 11-year-old from Aqabah watching her home get bulldozed so that some ultra-orthodox racist can put up a vinyl siding nightmare of a house? Do you think a 4-year-old Palestinian whose family has just been exterminated in another ceaseless and barbaric assault on Gaza should say, “ah, but we had our chance at Taba….”? No. This is all that matters: between them, Israel is the drunken dad, coming up the stairs with his belt in his hand. It doesn’t matter if Palestinians were actually asking for it or not. You are the bully and it falls on you alone to stop. That is how the moral universe works. I’m sorry if you find it uncomfortable to be in that position.
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Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg. Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg.” I have expressed this position, or echoed it really, every few years for the past twelve, and the response is always the same: this is moral error, this is juvenalia, this is an embarrassment, this is a joke. Surely adults don’t fall into these childish caricatures of political belief. And yet as I grow older it just seems more and more wise, more and more a statement of the basic status of the moral universe. You choose the wall or the egg, and in Palestine, no one could mistake one for the other.
Hence you get stuff like this, or complaints about how the US nuking Japan was morally wrong because demanding an unconditional surrender was immoral since we'd basically already won, and so on .
