Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Israeli troops 'at height of battle' encircling Gaza City" video.

  1. I'm sick of these softball questions to israeli authorities that allow them to perpetrate the lies that Palestine is an equal opponent, that they don't want to be a democracy and most heinous of all, that this somehow all started on 7 Oct. None of those things are true, not even remotely. Palestine is under occupation by Israel. Period. That means Israel is in control of Palestine and it has been that way for 50 years. Period. Israel will not allow the PA to hold elections because they are worried Hamas will win those elections in the west bank. Hamas is born of occupation, they are people seeking to free themselves from occupation. Israel breaks international law by continuing the occupation for so long. It breaks international law by introducing Israeli settlers into the occupied territories of Palestine that it guards with israeli soldiers armed to the teeth. It breaks international law when those same settlers attack, shoot at, blockade and drive from their homes Palestinians already living there. It breaks international law when it undertakes apartheid, such that it controls even which streets Palestinians inside Gaza and the West Bank can walk on, which roads they can drive on, which streets they can open businesses on, and which, inside Palestinian territory are exclusively for Israelis. Israel talks of Hamas firing rockets, but Israel have the iron dome and those rockets hurt no one. The same can not be said of Israeli bombs that target schools, mosques, childcare centres and hospitals. 7 Oct was retaliation. Was it horrific? Absolutely. But you can only oppress a people, murder them in their beds, dispossess them of their land for so long before they fight back, before they defend themselves. Don't start the story at 7 Oct, start the story where it belongs, with 50 years of brutal occupation and all the Israeli violence in the weeks and months leading up to 7 Oct. Start with the 500-2000 Palestinians murdered by Israel EVERY YEAR during what Israel call times of peace. Your interviewee is not interested in peace, she's interested in the subjugation and genocide of a people. If you want peace, start by ending the occupation.
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