Israel has invaded Gaza...

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Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Sure. But it's what they were handed. Maybe you think they should have said...OK but nah...no thanks. We'll just go ahead and stay here and live amongst the hired Polish and Ukrainian extermination camp guards who were worse than the nazis and got away with it, and the rest of the Europeans standing by the side of the tracks as the cattle cars went rolling by, giving the Jews inside the cut-throat sign. Or the anti-Semites in southern France, turning over their neighbors to the SS. Yeh...just stay there and live with those people.

Besides. It was apparently no big deal when, prior to the partition of Israel, the Jordanians decided to annex the West Bank which is apparently "Palestinian" land...or when the Egyptians annexed what is now "Palestinian" land. Nobody was calling the Jordanians or the Egyptians "land grabbers." Nobody was rising up in anger at the unfairness of it being at the expense of the "Palestinians".

It's bullshit. It's the Jews.

Unless and until you travel over there and have a look around (including the West Bank and just the Israeli side of the Gaza wall), you have little idea of what kind of humiliating, dehumanizing shit the Palestinians have put up with for the last 60 years. I met a retired Irish nurse on a bus in the West Bank last November who volunteers in a maternity clinic in Bethlehem. When she flies back to Ireland, authorities at Ben Gurion airport routinely detain her for just enough time to miss her flight home while telling her that they're doing so to dissuade her from helping Palestinians in any way. Before the barrier wall went up, I saw Israeli soldiers stop cars at checkpoints and make older Arab women stand out in the desert sun for hours just because they could.

Take a gander at a map of the Israeli settlements (many "illegal" under Israeli law, yet still supported by Israel) on the West Bank and consider that the Israelis have had an open invitation from the early 1950's to Jews from around the world to come there and settle.

Our news media gives us pretty much half of the story of what is really going on over there and you can guess which half it is.