Analysis of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Of course war is horrible, so why did the Palestinians initiate this

war

with their vicious attack on Israelis on October seventh?

Well, they didn't.

What do you mean 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 and fifty thousand people.

We must expel Arabs-

Get out of here.

We must expel Arabs and take their places.

The US-

We must expel Arabs and take their places.

And if we have to use force, not to dispossess the Arabs of the

Negev and Transjordan, but to guarantee our own right to settle

in those places,

then we have force at our disposal.

David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel,

said that in nineteen

thirty-seven, and that's what they proceeded to do.

The people in Gaza-- This is what you need to understand.

The people in Gaza, over eighty percent of them are refugees.

Many of them are 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

Arab Jewish refugees and Russians into

Ashkelon to prevent them from ever coming back and pass

laws to prevent Arabs, Palestinians from being able to

return to their homes. Seven hundred and fifty thousand

were ethnically cleansed.

S-- For eighteen years, the remaining Palestinians, a hundred

thousand, were internally displaced inside Israel.

The remaining were put under military rule.

They were under military occupation until nineteen sixty-six.

Then in nineteen sixty-seven, Israel violently, in a war it

initiated, occupies Gaza, occupies the West Bank, occupies

the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights in East Jerusalem,

and then invades Lebanon in nineteen eighty-two, attacking

Palestinian refugees there.

Puts Gaza under siege in two thousand and five.

No, no one can get in or out without Israeli military

permission.

We must kill and kill all day, every day.

That's according to Arnon Sof-Sofer, an Israeli government consultant who

helped deci-- devise the siege of Gaza.

For years, Israel would not allow certain chocolates

and A2

paper into Gaza. And then they began these brutal military

assaults, which they call mowing the lawn.

Slaughtering a few people will leave Hamas intact, but keep them a less-- teach

them a lesson. And I talked to you about those assaults

that took place on

Gaza. So this didn't come out of a vacuum. This...

You're not gonna be able to hold people under siege, then cut them off

from the world, and then expect them to just play along.

That doesn't mean that I celebrate

what happened on October seventh. It should have never had to happen.

The reason it happened

is because of the Israel lobby here, the genocide Democrats and the

genocide Republicans who deny the Palestinians any right to

have the r-- to have rights. And it's the right to have rights that

defines you as a citizen. They're citizens of nothing.

And now we see what Israel really thinks of them, really thinks of their children.

Gaza has become a graveyard for children, according to UN

Secretary General António Guterres.

So

this didn't start on October seventh, and it's not going to end when there's a

ceasefire.