Palestine
A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
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There is no scale between the Flood of al-Aqsa and what 'Israel' has been doing to Gaza for the past 7 months.
a- 600 'Israelis' were killed by the Resistance on October 7. Up to 200,000 -- 10% of the population in Gaza -- have been killed so far since then. The remaining 600 that 'Israel' claims died were either killed by their own country, or simply do not exist. The last toll that I heard of was between 800 to 1000.
b- October 7 killed and made prisoners of soldiers. They were not "kidnapped" and held for ransom, they are POWs. Because all of them were soldiers. 'Israel' put them in harm's way by having conscription laws and regardless, if you are a soldier of the colonial project, you should expect your service is not going to happen peacefully.
c- 'Israel' has been bombing and starving the POWs in Gaza exactly because they are such important bargaining chips. Some years back they released thousands of Palestinians held in occupation prisons for one soldier.
d- don't care didn't ask tbh is what I would tell them. If they have the humanity to worry about settlers they have the humanity to worry about Palestinians. Do they also cry on the day Hitler killed himself and worship an altar they have of him?
There is simply no rational way 'Israel' comes out ahead when looking at the facts. Loyalty in a colony is first given to the colony before it is given to your fellow settlers. If they refuse to see this, they simply don't want to see things as they are and will remain a settler.