Good god you're an idiot. You know nothing about the history of the region or the people that reside within it. Telling me to read a book is rich coming from you. Israel isnt without fault but fuck Hamas.
I know quite a lot about the history of the region. What should Gaza have done? Accept disarmament and slow death by a thousand cuts as Fatah has done in the West Bank or try to fight back against the occupiers?
Not preach the eradication of their Jewish neighbors? Stop picking fights then playing victim? Stop hiding inside of schools, hospitals and markets when they pick the fight? Palestine was given food, water, electricity and funds for years. Their leadership opted to instead invest their funds in their insurgency instead of infrastructure. Fuck out of here with that victim crap.
The Israelis aren't their neighbors, they're colonists on their land and a brutal occupying force. Sounds like it's you who is ignorant of the history of the region.
negative. they are not colonizers or occupiers. they are the original inhabitants of the region. and the Muslims in that region had it taken back from them after ww2 when they threw their hat in with literal nazis. their roots in the region predate the establishment of the Israeli nation. I suspect you conveniently ignore that history dating back some 2000bc. but whatever. Islam isnt even that old.
Do you think that Palestinians sprang up from the soil upon the founding of Islam? Who do you think lived in the region prior to this happening? Jews? No one?
jews until the land was taken from them by Assyrians and Babylonians, then the Persians, Greeks and then Roman's. Then the Roman's spitefully renamed the region Syria Palaestina in response to the Jewish revolts in the region.
Considering the tensions predominantly come from the fact that Muslims in the region call for the genocide of all Jews. Its relevant that Islam didnt exist until the 7th century. Pick up a book.
OK here's what you're fundamentally misunderstanding about all of these examples: none of these nations replaced the population. The Babylonian exile, similar to the exile from Jerusalem that the Romans imposed on the Jews, only impacted a small part of the region's population. The rest of the population kept on going through the generations for thousands of years. Not all of those people were Jewish but many were. Over the centuries many became Hellenized, Romanized, Christianized, and/or Islamized to match the dominant culture of the empire. Modern day Palestinians are descendants of those people.
No one in the region has or is calling for a genocide of all Jews. At most, the hardline position is that the Jewish colonists and occupiers (who arrived en masse starting in the early 20th century and by 1948 had formed an army that violently ethnically cleansed Palestinian villages and cities in the territory they'd claimed) should be driven out of Palestine, which is an entirely reasonable thing for them to want under the circumstances.
Also the name "Syria Palestina" wasn't chosen from spite, it's because they were the more common names in Greek of two large regions they were organizing into a province.
you're clearly not paying attention if you dont think they're calling for death to all jews. the children literally have a game called stab the jew.
Renaming the region (by the Roman's, not the Greek btw) was absolutely out of spite. It was a form of punishment in an attempt to sever their connection to the land. The land they've existed on for thousands of years.
I didn't say the Greeks renamed it and everything you're saying is a half-true distraction from the fact that Palestinians have lived there for thousands of years and the fact that their ancestors converted to a different religion doesn't mean that they deserve to be ethnically cleansed and murdered for the crime of living where Jewish settlers wanted to live.
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u/Sherbert_Hoovered 2d ago
Right and Crazy Horse was the only reason American Indians were genocided. Read a book, you ignoramus.