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In reply to the discussion: My only post on the ME crisis [View all]cpwm17
(3,829 posts)Are you trying hard to find some gray area so to absolve Israel of its atrocities? The Palestinians are a captive and highly oppressed population. Are there any other populations in the world that has been so badly oppressed for so long?
Palestine isn't a state and cannot conduct aggressive war (or any war, by international law since it isn't a state) against its occupiers, because, by definition, Israel is already the aggressor since it is the one that is imprisoning the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. See what happens if a Palestinian tries to stray more than a few mile off its coast. He will be murdered by his captors.
They have no state. Israel doesn't have a right to conduct a massive collective punishment operation against a stateless population for a problem that Israel itself caused. This is just a continuation of the Palestinian Nakba, which has never ended.
These atrocities by Israel were motivated by the Palestinians' unity government started in early June. The Palestinians proposed a peaceful solution to their conflict with Israel. This is Netanyahu's big middle finger at the peace process. There is almost no gray area.