Comments by "JBird" (@jbird4478) on "Lefties losing it: Man mocked for wearing dress at pro-Palestine rally" video.

  1.  @dawsie  The Jews were forced out of Israel by the Romans, not by Arabs. In modern history, Israel has very much acted as an occupier though. It's a complex situation. Yes, you can find tons of Jewish artifacts in Israel, and there are places that are considered sacred by them in Israel. But the same thing applies to Muslims. They have been living there for centuries, and they too have many places they consider sacred. Gaza is effectively an open air prison nowadays. You can certainly put part of the blame on Hamas for that, but Israel is equally to blame. Who's not to blame though, are the normal families that are forced to live there because the borders are shut. Nor the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that de facto live in exile outside of Israel, separated from their families. You can't "simply pay" for electricity and water in an area that is almost completely cut off from the world, run by a terrorist organization, and frankly one of the worst hellholes you can currently find on earth. Israel has had Gaza cut off for a long time, and as a result of that it is economically devastated. And now they have deliberately cut off water supplies as an act of aggression. That is a war crime under international law, irrespective of the numerous atrocities committed by Hamas. Don't be equally naive and blind-sided as the dumb lefties in this video. There's no right and wrong side in this conflict. Only misery.
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  2.  @gg_rider  They hadn't created a state out of nothing. The modern day state of Israel was largely created under British rule of the area in the first half of the 20th century.
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  3. This is a bit unfair to that last girl. Of course, you can't expect all those things after just graduating, but that doesn't mean it can't be frustrating to start out, and she's just venting that frustration. We've all (well, lots of us) been there. We just didn't have the culture to share those kinds of moments with the world.
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