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@ Evan
2025-05-13 14:16:14
That’s not what indigenous means. By that logic, parts of my family are indigenous to America.
Stateless occupied people under siege? They had autonomous control over Gaza for 17 years. They’ve been given the opportunity to claim it as an internationally recognized state at multiple times since WWII, but turned it down. Hamas brought the current siege upon them, and Netanyahu took it too far.
Over that 17 years, they took in enough international funds to build a paradise. Instead, they built tunnels, stockpiled weapons, committed countless suicide bombings, continuously fired rockets at Israel, and coordinated a state-sponsored terrorist attack that savagely murdered, raped, and tortured a percentage of the Israeli population equivalent to three 9/11s. They even filmed themselves doing it.
Does any of this justify the extent Netanyahu has taken to destroy Gaza? Of course not, but pretending they are innocent OR indigenous is absurd on its face.
Again, to be clear, not every Palestinian in Gaza is a terrorist, the vast majority deserve peace and freedom, but they voted for Hamas, a terrorist organization, to be their government. Hamas never let them vote again and has since used them as human shields for their extremist intifada.