Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)There was never support for any leadership, in Gaza or anywhere else IN Palestine, that would have settled for anything short of independence. And you know it.
And nothing would be better in Gaza NOW if the IDF were still there. Hamas would still be popular there and would still be growing. They'd be doing even worse things and the IDF wouldn't be able to stop them.
You call ME naive...but what's really naive is believing that an Occupation would ever be regarded as a time of liberation by the people living under it. No people, anywhere, has ever felt that way about having a foreign army on their soil for an indefinite period.
You keep assuming that the population there would have been fine with the post-1967 status quo if only it hadn't been for "the leaders". That is bullshit. There was ALWAYS going to be massive resistance.
If Occupation was really such a paradise for Palestinians, then tell me, why aren't they all just applying for Israeli citizenship?