@Museek All of that was prior to Hamas.

From 1953 to 1989 the Soviet Union provided backing, propaganda, and weapons to the Palestinian terror groups.

After Communism disintegrated the mostly secular Palestinian terror groups morphed into or were replaced by hardcore Islamic fundamentalists (that's Hamas among others).

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@Render @Bemet_Or thank you so much… you, too @MLClark

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I visited Khabarovsk in the Soviet Union in 1990, just before the collapse, to visit a ham radio friend. one thing he told me was there was a town also called Khabarovsk about 5 miles away that wasn't on the map and that's where all the Jews lived. he said there were towns like that all over Russia not on any map, and in the Soviet times the government told you where you could live and what your job would be

@Museek @Render @Bemet_Or There's Arab, Persian, and Muslim ultranationalism as well as nazi propaganda and hate from prior wars. Men with golden toilets keep some of it going to give people an enemy other than them. Religious leaders and extremist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah also keep alive. There are generations passing on hate to generations then new gens hate each other.

@Museek @Render @Bemet_Or That isn't to say Israel is never wrong or is perfect. The land increase is a buffer zone. Understandable noone wants rocket launched from middle of country. Israels far right and radical settlers also committed abuses. They need leaders throughout middle east pushing for peaceful solutions.

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And yet, from my understanding, they’re cousins. One descending from the biblical Isaac, the other descending from the biblical Ismael.

That 17 states surrounding one tiny country won’t provide refuge is telling. I have so many questions because one side of this doesn’t make sense.

Why does no one in those states question #Hamas bombing the evacuation route?

Why are all videos taken AFTER instead of DURING strikes? How many deaths are “friendly” fire?

@Museek @Render @Bemet_Or Same reason China used to pay the Mongolian hordes to knock off other tribes. The longer they keep others with blood debts and internal fighting the longer they don't have to fight them.

@Museek @Render @Bemet_Or I was friends with Israels enemies when I was young. Not by seeking them out for that reason but for the usual reasons of young people becoming friends. Not everyone buys into the propaganda but have friends and family that do just like how we have friends and family in the US that are racist, antisemitic, qanon, etc. I think the difference is their extremists have control. All the more incentive for us to not allow extremists to take control.

@Museek @Render @Bemet_Or The moderates have to be careful and quiet or be picked up and imprisoned or killed by the extremists. That they have political prisoners shows you that they don't all agree with the extremists. Of course many of the moderates have left if they were able to. Think about what US would be like if our craziest militias took control.

@Museek @Render @Bemet_Or And by crazy I mean their extremists don't care about civilians dying. They want them to be killed if they can use it politically. That doesn't mean all those killed wanted extremists to get them killed. We need to remember that when we see peoples pain that the pain is real regardless of whether there is someone else profiting from it.