Comments by "Gavin Mc" (@gavinmc5285) on "Watch again: David Cameron questioned by foreign affairs committee" video.
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 @motinmotin8591 i'll give the quiz a go
1. fundamentally - unlikely. discretely - probably.
2. if you ask state of israel - no. if you ask 'state' of palestine - of course.
3. first, depends on your geographical definition of 'occupation'. if yes then israel has the right to defend its sovereignty (as a state) even if the un (united 'nations') doesn't fully endorse (or takes issue)
4. how long you got? in the interests of brevity then probably best to benchmark at the fall of the ottoman empire. so depending on your perspective in the context of the modern sovereign state - 1914, 1917, 1922, 1945, 1948, 1967, 1973, 2001, 2023. or another year.
5. genocide? - no. although given the increasingly elastic politicization of the term if you were representing a particular set of interests in some random place, i dunno, let's say south africa, then yes.
6. if you take a broader sweep of history (say 100 years) and look at the land that the state of israel now occupies (as legitimate custodians obviously) then it is difficult to deny that the so-called 'palestinians' (the majority inhabitants of the lands c. 1917-1922) have not been displaced, compressed and have lost land to live on (actual and potential)
7. to an extent. although as middle eastern states go it could be worse.
8. hamas is an oppressive non-state terrorist network disguised as an outward facing resistance group and an inward facing pimp government
9. oh, this one is easy. britain issued the mandate.
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