Fourteen years after British Prime Minister David Cameron charged the Israels with creating a “big outdoor prison” in Gaza, the New York Times finally acknowledged that the Palestinians in Gaza have been “effectively imprisoned…in a 141-square-mile strip of land between Egypt and Israel that has become a killing zone.”  On the same day, the Washington Post finally acknowledged that it would take “80 years to rebuild all of Gaza’s destroyed homes” if the pace of construction “mirrors previous conflicts.”  Israel has bombed Gaza on several previous occasions, but the past year has seen “an unprecedented scale of destruction,” according to the United Nations”
  • Diva (she/her)English
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    4 days ago

    No one can ever justify the brutality of the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7th, but the brutal conditions that Israel and Egypt have imposed on the citizens of Gaza help to explain the motivations for that invasion. There are two compelling factors that stand out in any examination of the crisis in Gaza: the persistent intransigence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli unwillingness to pursue a diplomatic and political solution to the Palestinian tragedy. Like a long line of Israeli politicians, Netanyahu favors total humiliation of the Palestinian people. The Hamas invasion of October 7th was inevitable.

    Was good but the last paragraph made me feel weird- 1. it’s not just Netanyahu, 2. if it’s a prison as we established then it seems weird to then call it ‘the Hamas invasion’ rather than ‘the Gaza prison break/ghetto uprising of October 7th’

    • OprahsedCreatureEnglish
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      4 days ago

      The Gaza Ghetto Uprising feels like the strongest and most accurately descriptive term for this outside of the Gaza Genocide