Analysis of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Of course war is horrible, so why did the Palestinians initiate this
war on
October seventh?
Well, they didn't.
They didn't. This war has been going on for
seventy-five years.
Israel initiated it in nineteen forty-eight by ethnically cleansing seven
hundred
fifty thousand people. This is what you need to understand.
The people in Gaza, over eighty percent of them
are refugees from a place called
Majdal Askalan in what is now southern Israel in a city called
Ashkelon, and they were dragged from their homes
and driven from their homes,
placed in prison camps, barbed wire prison camps,
and then dumped in
trucks in nineteen fifty into the Gaza Strip, where they would be permanently
warehoused. And then Israel proceeded to move Jewish
refugees and Russians into Ashkelon to prevent them from ever
coming back. So this didn't come out of a vacuum.
This...
You're not gonna be able to hold people under siege, cut them off from the
world, and then expect them to just play along.
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