Condemning Palestinians for attacking their oppressor is like opposing slave revolts or colonial backlash. But this is a religious war, and Muslims are persecuting the Jews. Nope. Palestine's liberation struggle combats the same settler colonialism, displacement, and genocide inflicted on Native Americans, and annihilation or expulsion is the likely outcome.
Britain and its buddies chose to birth a new experiment in a strategic location that suited their interests, not Israel's. Potential locations included Argentina, Uganda, and other significant regions but Britain settled on Palestine because it was already occupying the area and it was near the Suez Canal. Ha. Fuck.
Israel's founders expected to create the first Jewish nation-state, but numerous cultures and religions already inhabited the area. Western backing enabled Israel to dominate negotiations, break treaties, and disregard the two-state solution, eventually pushing communities into corners, locking them in, and giving their homes to American, Australian, Canadian, and European Jewish immigrants.
Palestinians live in the world's highest-density urban jail, and a giant cage confines them to a crumbling, bullet-ridden compound, which Israel monitors 24/7. Palestinians must obtain Israeli permission to travel within the compound, but they are rarely approved, and movement is restricted.
Sanctions and a two-decade blockade restrict medical, food, and basic resources; Cholera and curable disease death rates are high. Israel operates Gaza's power plant and water supply, providing up to 6 hours of energy and daily sewage spillage when power disconnects.
Palestinians tend to follow Christianity or Islam, and occupation under the Ottoman Empire exposed Palestine to numerous cultures and beliefs, which did not provoke rage. Brutal oppression, displacement, massacres, and colonialism sustain the violence, but they'll obtain freedom if they politely and sweetly ask their oppressor. Ha. As if we know how we'd behave in a daily life-threatening cage of hell.
