Any sympathy for the 2 million people in Gaza who Israel has cut off from electricity, water, food, medicine, fuel and who are being carpet bombed by Israel. No? How about the 1 million of them who are children? I know. I know. Israel is not responsible for their behavior. It's Hamas' fault.
They have been dehumanized and the media never shows their suffering.. so people can just keep their heads buried deep or look away
Very few here have been paying attention to the escalation of tensions and reasons over the last year, let alone several decades.
I think in general you can point to the West as the instigator of most current conflicts you see around the world right now, from Africa to South America to the various domains of Asia.
The reason the "Middle East" (actually it should be called Western Asia) is in turmoil is because the West wants to maintain their control over the natural resources in the region (e.g. oil). The U.S. also needs an ally in the region and what better ally than another settler colonial regime (i.e. "Israel").
The vast majority of people living in Israel and Palestine were born there.
Clearly the poster meant when the Israeli state was impletmented and Jews came from everywhere, non-arabs were a clear minority. You can easily look this up.
If we go back to the 2nd Temple period it was more like 95% Jewish? This is a stupid argument.
WINEP was founded in 1985 by Barbi Weinberg of Los Angeles, CA.[7] Martin Indyk, an Australian-trained academic and former deputy director of research for AIPAC, was the first executive director.[8][9] Indyk described the think tank as "friendly to Israel but doing credible research on the Middle East in a realistic and balanced way.
M.J. Rosenberg criticized the organization on Al Jazeera for having strong ties to the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC and for being founded by a former AIPAC employee.[40] In a December 2003 interview on Al Jazeera, Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian-American professor and director of Columbia University's Middle East Institute, sharply criticized WINEP, stating that it is "the fiercest of the enemies of the Arabs and the Muslims", and describing it as the "most important Zionist propaganda tool in the United States."[41] In response, Martin Kramer, the editor of the Middle East Quarterly and a visiting fellow at WINEP, defended the group, saying that it is "run by Americans, and accepts funds only from American sources," and that it was "outrageous" for Khalidi to denounce Arabs that visited WINEP as "blundering dupes."[42] John Mearsheimer, a University of Chicago political science professor, and Stephen Walt, academic dean at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, describe it as "part of the core" of the pro-Israeli lobby in the United States.[43] Discussing the group in their book, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, Mearsheimer and Walt write: Although WINEP plays down its links to Israel and claims that it provides a 'balanced and realistic' perspective on Middle East issues, this is not the case. In fact, WINEP is funded and run by individuals who are deeply committed to advancing Israel's agenda ... Many of its personnel are genuine scholars or experienced former officials, but they are hardly neutral observers on most Middle East issues and there is little diversity of views within WINEP's ranks."[43]
Have you been to Jerusalem? Have you been to East Jerusalem?
Clearly the poster meant when the Israeli state was impletmented and Jews came from everywhere, non-arabs were a clear minority. You can easily look this up.
If we go back to the 2nd Temple period it was more like 95% Jewish? This is a stupid argument.
LOL ... in a very small area. A temple with a few Shepards and farmers surrounding it.
I think in general you can point to the West as the instigator of most current conflicts you see around the world right now, from Africa to South America to the various domains of Asia.
The reason the "Middle East" (actually it should be called Western Asia) is in turmoil is because the West wants to maintain their control over the natural resources in the region (e.g. oil). The U.S. also needs an ally in the region and what better ally than another settler colonial regime (i.e. "Israel").
The vast majority of people living in Israel and Palestine were born there.
The vast majority of elite Israelis grandparents were born in Europe/Russia.
The vast majority of people living in Israel and Palestine were born there.
Almost al children of immigrants in Israel. Almost al children of the local natives in Palestine.
Of course that’s not true. Millions of Mizrahi Jews lived in Israeli in 40s and many more do today. Many came as refugees after they were disposed and exiled from other Arab majority countries.
I think in general you can point to the West as the instigator of most current conflicts you see around the world right now, from Africa to South America to the various domains of Asia.
The reason the "Middle East" (actually it should be called Western Asia) is in turmoil is because the West wants to maintain their control over the natural resources in the region (e.g. oil). The U.S. also needs an ally in the region and what better ally than another settler colonial regime (i.e. "Israel").
The vast majority of people living in Israel and Palestine were born there.
The Jewish Israelis are the descendants of recent immigrants.
The Jewish people were dispossessed and have a right of return to their homeland!
The Native Americans living in what we now call the United States of America were dispossessed and have the right to reclaim their homelands from the white interlopers.