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      1 year ago

      Because Germany didn’t then exist under decades of apartheid where they were denied basic services just due to the accident of their birth. Even East Germans had it far, far better than Gazans.

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            Yes, and when you do that, no journalists will chase you to scream, “BUT DO YOU CONDEMN ISRAEL?”

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                  Gaza is not Hamas and Hamas is not Gaza. Those children are innocent and they’re nearly half the population, as the post says. When you put a huge number of innocent people under siege, and kill more of them than were killed on your side, you’re escalating.

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          Gaza only ended up on the situation it is now because surrounding countries kept attacking Isreal over the last 70 years and lost land to them, then Hamas/the PLO/etc have played on similar agrievements to get themselves into the leadership position and have now lead them into a war.

          Just FYI, Gazans are refugees who were forced to the Gaza strip by… ISRAEL! Woohoo.

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          Israel didn’t exist there prior…

          They took land (rather, were given land by western empires that wasn’t there’s to give) and kicked out and killed those who were there. Yeah, that’s didn’t create any resentment at all I’m sure and it’s all the attacks that happened in response that caused it.

          Someone else can always be blamed. To act like Israel doesn’t share in the blame is probably one of the most ignorant statements I’ve heard.

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      Adding onto the other poster’s comment, another reason is because the US will never pour unlimited money and resources into these people making sure they do.

      Europe didn’t pull itself up by its own bootstraps after WWII.

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      Why can’t Palestinian kids have the same emotional realisation?

      75 years of collective trauma