Gaza War, Part 3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone who isn’t a Jew, a Christian fundamentalist, or an American politician who has been bought by Israel not despise Israel now? Their politicians and soldiers are just total shits, and so are a substantial percentage of the civilians. The people there who want peace and equality seem to be overwhelmed by the obnoxious, entitled creeps who have no problem stealing other people’s land, bombing them into oblivion, and then laughing about it. It seems inevitable that the day will come when they’ll pay a heavy price for their actions.

Anyone who's not a convinced anti-semite has a more nuanced perspective than that.

Ergo...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone who isn’t a Jew, a Christian fundamentalist, or an American politician who has been bought by Israel not despise Israel now? Their politicians and soldiers are just total shits, and so are a substantial percentage of the civilians. The people there who want peace and equality seem to be overwhelmed by the obnoxious, entitled creeps who have no problem stealing other people’s land, bombing them into oblivion, and then laughing about it. It seems inevitable that the day will come when they’ll pay a heavy price for their actions.

Anyone who's not a convinced anti-semite has a more nuanced perspective than that.

Ergo...

DP say the person who just cheered on the killing on 23,000 people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone who isn’t a Jew, a Christian fundamentalist, or an American politician who has been bought by Israel not despise Israel now? Their politicians and soldiers are just total shits, and so are a substantial percentage of the civilians. The people there who want peace and equality seem to be overwhelmed by the obnoxious, entitled creeps who have no problem stealing other people’s land, bombing them into oblivion, and then laughing about it. It seems inevitable that the day will come when they’ll pay a heavy price for their actions.

Anyone who's not a convinced anti-semite has a more nuanced perspective than that.

Ergo...

You will never convince anyone outside your obnoxious echo chamber that criticism of (or even abject hatred of) Israel is anti-semitism.

Most Israelis (and nearly 100% of its ruling class) are not even semitic, and Israel need not have support or even exist for there to be a place in the world for those identifying as Jews.

Keep pissing in the wind, though, because it’s amusing to watch someone thinking they can pull this con over if they just keep repeating the lie over and over again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone who isn’t a Jew, a Christian fundamentalist, or an American politician who has been bought by Israel not despise Israel now? Their politicians and soldiers are just total shits, and so are a substantial percentage of the civilians. The people there who want peace and equality seem to be overwhelmed by the obnoxious, entitled creeps who have no problem stealing other people’s land, bombing them into oblivion, and then laughing about it. It seems inevitable that the day will come when they’ll pay a heavy price for their actions.

Anyone who's not a convinced anti-semite has a more nuanced perspective than that.

Ergo...

DP say the person who just cheered on the killing on 23,000 people.

And how many non combatant civilians globally have been blown up by militant jihadists?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone who isn’t a Jew, a Christian fundamentalist, or an American politician who has been bought by Israel not despise Israel now? Their politicians and soldiers are just total shits, and so are a substantial percentage of the civilians. The people there who want peace and equality seem to be overwhelmed by the obnoxious, entitled creeps who have no problem stealing other people’s land, bombing them into oblivion, and then laughing about it. It seems inevitable that the day will come when they’ll pay a heavy price for their actions.

Many Jews in my acquaintance, including hard-core supporters of Israel, are profoundly disturbed by and opposed to the actions of Israel’s right-wing government in Gaza. It is ironic that Jews whose parents experienced the Holocaust would turn around and commit genocide themselves, then scream that anyone — including many Jews—who opposes their actions in Gaza is anti-Semitic.

This will not end well for Israel in the long run. Israel will be punished for its war crimes.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are the hostages? It’s day 91.

And, where are the calls to release them?

Are you brain damaged? The calls to release the hostages have been coming from day one. But Hamas continues to play games. And one sad truth is that a significant number of the hostages are already dead yet Hamas continues to try and use them as bargaining chips, because they have nothing else.

My guess is that the hostages that a were released are the only ones left alive. Hamas didn’t release 1:1 hostages for prisoners because they didn’t have enough to give. Chances are most of them were killed within 48 hours. That’s the tragic statistic for kidnapping and murder in general, why wouldn’t it hold for this scenario? Children who are kidnapped and murdered are typically killed in the first few hours. Terribly sad but true.

Hostages are kidnapped to get something, not to kill them. If Hamas aimed to kill them, they could have easily done it on Oct 7. It would certainly be easier than dragging them across the border and then feed them, treat them and move them constantly so they don't get killed by Israeli bombs.

The bolded is essentially correct.

But one of the things that terrorists want to "get" is revenge. I hate to say it, but it's likely that some of the remaining hostages have been tortured or abused to such an extent that Hamas cannot release them for political reasons.

They'll simply disappear or Hamas will claim that they were "killed in an Israeli airstrike".

Others may be out of Hamas's direct control at this point--given the number of hostages, Hamas almost certainly had to outsource their captivity to affiliated groups and individuals.

Given the fog of war, I doubt Hamas even has the ability to track all of them down at this point.

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It is so sad/infuriating to think of the fate of the remaining hostages, especially given the reports of abuse suffered by those who were released. How much worse must those remaining be treated for Hamas to decide it would be bad PR for them to let them go and tell their stories?

Exactly. The “keep smiling” videos showed the side of Hamas these poor kidnapped children saw. Sinister and cruel. They would absolutely kill as the “reward” for kidnapping Jews. After all, it’s in Hamas’ charter to do just that.

Why does it matter if it was in Hamas charter? The Quran and prophet literally call for jihad and the murder of nonbelievers.

To be fair, the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 13 and 17, for example) and the Talmud say much the same.

I must have missed the news about Christians committing unprovoked acts of holy war in the name of God.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone who isn’t a Jew, a Christian fundamentalist, or an American politician who has been bought by Israel not despise Israel now? Their politicians and soldiers are just total shits, and so are a substantial percentage of the civilians. The people there who want peace and equality seem to be overwhelmed by the obnoxious, entitled creeps who have no problem stealing other people’s land, bombing them into oblivion, and then laughing about it. It seems inevitable that the day will come when they’ll pay a heavy price for their actions.

Anyone who's not a convinced anti-semite has a more nuanced perspective than that.

Ergo...

DP say the person who just cheered on the killing on 23,000 people.

And how many non combatant civilians globally have been blown up by militant jihadists?

THAT’S your argument?

Israel should be held to jihadist standards? And, in fact, because the kill rate of Palestinian non-combatant civilians to Israeli non-combatant civilians over the past 76 years is perhaps 15:1, it follows that Israel is not only no better than jihadists, but actually at least 15x worse?

#hasbarafail

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Anonymous wrote:Where are the hostages? It’s day 91.

And, where are the calls to release them?

Are you brain damaged? The calls to release the hostages have been coming from day one. But Hamas continues to play games. And one sad truth is that a significant number of the hostages are already dead yet Hamas continues to try and use them as bargaining chips, because they have nothing else.

My guess is that the hostages that a were released are the only ones left alive. Hamas didn’t release 1:1 hostages for prisoners because they didn’t have enough to give. Chances are most of them were killed within 48 hours. That’s the tragic statistic for kidnapping and murder in general, why wouldn’t it hold for this scenario? Children who are kidnapped and murdered are typically killed in the first few hours. Terribly sad but true.

Hostages are kidnapped to get something, not to kill them. If Hamas aimed to kill them, they could have easily done it on Oct 7. It would certainly be easier than dragging them across the border and then feed them, treat them and move them constantly so they don't get killed by Israeli bombs.

The bolded is essentially correct.

But one of the things that terrorists want to "get" is revenge. I hate to say it, but it's likely that some of the remaining hostages have been tortured or abused to such an extent that Hamas cannot release them for political reasons.

They'll simply disappear or Hamas will claim that they were "killed in an Israeli airstrike".

Others may be out of Hamas's direct control at this point--given the number of hostages, Hamas almost certainly had to outsource their captivity to affiliated groups and individuals.

Given the fog of war, I doubt Hamas even has the ability to track all of them down at this point.

+1000
It is so sad/infuriating to think of the fate of the remaining hostages, especially given the reports of abuse suffered by those who were released. How much worse must those remaining be treated for Hamas to decide it would be bad PR for them to let them go and tell their stories?

Exactly. The “keep smiling” videos showed the side of Hamas these poor kidnapped children saw. Sinister and cruel. They would absolutely kill as the “reward” for kidnapping Jews. After all, it’s in Hamas’ charter to do just that.

Why does it matter if it was in Hamas charter? The Quran and prophet literally call for jihad and the murder of nonbelievers.

To be fair, the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 13 and 17, for example) and the Talmud say much the same.

I must have missed the news about Christians committing unprovoked acts of holy war in the name of God.

So Jews can cop to their fairytales being no better when it comes to viciously brutal human rights abuses than Islamic fairytales because Crusades, Inquisition, etc.?

Weird logic, but par for the course, I guess.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone who isn’t a Jew, a Christian fundamentalist, or an American politician who has been bought by Israel not despise Israel now? Their politicians and soldiers are just total shits, and so are a substantial percentage of the civilians. The people there who want peace and equality seem to be overwhelmed by the obnoxious, entitled creeps who have no problem stealing other people’s land, bombing them into oblivion, and then laughing about it. It seems inevitable that the day will come when they’ll pay a heavy price for their actions.

Anyone who's not a convinced anti-semite has a more nuanced perspective than that.

Ergo...

DP say the person who just cheered on the killing on 23,000 people.

And how many non combatant civilians globally have been blown up by militant jihadists?

THAT’S your argument?

Israel should be held to jihadist standards? And, in fact, because the kill rate of Palestinian non-combatant civilians to Israeli non-combatant civilians over the past 76 years is perhaps 15:1, it follows that Israel is not only no better than jihadists, but actually at least 15x worse?

#hasbarafail

All nations are responsible for the safety of their citizens. Israel failed on 10/7. Of course terrorists will continue to murder Israeli civilians, they are quite literally commanded by God to do so. Unfortunately Hamas chooses to co mingle their combatants with civilians so civilians deaths are relatively high.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where are the hostages? It’s day 91.

And, where are the calls to release them?

Are you brain damaged? The calls to release the hostages have been coming from day one. But Hamas continues to play games. And one sad truth is that a significant number of the hostages are already dead yet Hamas continues to try and use them as bargaining chips, because they have nothing else.

My guess is that the hostages that a were released are the only ones left alive. Hamas didn’t release 1:1 hostages for prisoners because they didn’t have enough to give. Chances are most of them were killed within 48 hours. That’s the tragic statistic for kidnapping and murder in general, why wouldn’t it hold for this scenario? Children who are kidnapped and murdered are typically killed in the first few hours. Terribly sad but true.

Hostages are kidnapped to get something, not to kill them. If Hamas aimed to kill them, they could have easily done it on Oct 7. It would certainly be easier than dragging them across the border and then feed them, treat them and move them constantly so they don't get killed by Israeli bombs.

The bolded is essentially correct.

But one of the things that terrorists want to "get" is revenge. I hate to say it, but it's likely that some of the remaining hostages have been tortured or abused to such an extent that Hamas cannot release them for political reasons.

They'll simply disappear or Hamas will claim that they were "killed in an Israeli airstrike".

Others may be out of Hamas's direct control at this point--given the number of hostages, Hamas almost certainly had to outsource their captivity to affiliated groups and individuals.

Given the fog of war, I doubt Hamas even has the ability to track all of them down at this point.

+1000
It is so sad/infuriating to think of the fate of the remaining hostages, especially given the reports of abuse suffered by those who were released. How much worse must those remaining be treated for Hamas to decide it would be bad PR for them to let them go and tell their stories?

Exactly. The “keep smiling” videos showed the side of Hamas these poor kidnapped children saw. Sinister and cruel. They would absolutely kill as the “reward” for kidnapping Jews. After all, it’s in Hamas’ charter to do just that.

Why does it matter if it was in Hamas charter? The Quran and prophet literally call for jihad and the murder of nonbelievers.

To be fair, the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 13 and 17, for example) and the Talmud say much the same.

I must have missed the news about Christians committing unprovoked acts of holy war in the name of God.

So Jews can cop to their fairytales being no better when it comes to viciously brutal human rights abuses than Islamic fairytales because Crusades, Inquisition, etc.?

Weird logic, but par for the course, I guess.

I must have missed the news of thousands of Jewish terror attacks on civilians and children in the name of God over the past few decades.

All religions are fairy tales. Some more harmful than others.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone who isn’t a Jew, a Christian fundamentalist, or an American politician who has been bought by Israel not despise Israel now? Their politicians and soldiers are just total shits, and so are a substantial percentage of the civilians. The people there who want peace and equality seem to be overwhelmed by the obnoxious, entitled creeps who have no problem stealing other people’s land, bombing them into oblivion, and then laughing about it. It seems inevitable that the day will come when they’ll pay a heavy price for their actions.

Anyone who's not a convinced anti-semite has a more nuanced perspective than that.

Ergo...

DP say the person who just cheered on the killing on 23,000 people.

And how many non combatant civilians globally have been blown up by militant jihadists?

THAT’S your argument?

Israel should be held to jihadist standards? And, in fact, because the kill rate of Palestinian non-combatant civilians to Israeli non-combatant civilians over the past 76 years is perhaps 15:1, it follows that Israel is not only no better than jihadists, but actually at least 15x worse?

#hasbarafail

All nations are responsible for the safety of their citizens. Israel failed on 10/7. Of course terrorists will continue to murder Israeli civilians, they are quite literally commanded by God to do so. Unfortunately Hamas chooses to co mingle their combatants with civilians so civilians deaths are relatively high.

Israel and Zionist supporters of Israel’s actions are guilty of the exact same “commanded by God” murderous intent, though, right?

The unequivocal aim of Zionism is to entitle a group of mostly non-indigenous immigrants to act upon the supposed fairytale promise of land in a region with existing indigenous people, for the purpose of physically displacing them (or if they won’t leave voluntarily, killing them), in furtherance of establishing and sustaining a Jewish homeland.

What’s the difference, professor?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where are the hostages? It’s day 91.

And, where are the calls to release them?

Are you brain damaged? The calls to release the hostages have been coming from day one. But Hamas continues to play games. And one sad truth is that a significant number of the hostages are already dead yet Hamas continues to try and use them as bargaining chips, because they have nothing else.

My guess is that the hostages that a were released are the only ones left alive. Hamas didn’t release 1:1 hostages for prisoners because they didn’t have enough to give. Chances are most of them were killed within 48 hours. That’s the tragic statistic for kidnapping and murder in general, why wouldn’t it hold for this scenario? Children who are kidnapped and murdered are typically killed in the first few hours. Terribly sad but true.

Hostages are kidnapped to get something, not to kill them. If Hamas aimed to kill them, they could have easily done it on Oct 7. It would certainly be easier than dragging them across the border and then feed them, treat them and move them constantly so they don't get killed by Israeli bombs.

The bolded is essentially correct.

But one of the things that terrorists want to "get" is revenge. I hate to say it, but it's likely that some of the remaining hostages have been tortured or abused to such an extent that Hamas cannot release them for political reasons.

They'll simply disappear or Hamas will claim that they were "killed in an Israeli airstrike".

Others may be out of Hamas's direct control at this point--given the number of hostages, Hamas almost certainly had to outsource their captivity to affiliated groups and individuals.

Given the fog of war, I doubt Hamas even has the ability to track all of them down at this point.

+1000
It is so sad/infuriating to think of the fate of the remaining hostages, especially given the reports of abuse suffered by those who were released. How much worse must those remaining be treated for Hamas to decide it would be bad PR for them to let them go and tell their stories?

Exactly. The “keep smiling” videos showed the side of Hamas these poor kidnapped children saw. Sinister and cruel. They would absolutely kill as the “reward” for kidnapping Jews. After all, it’s in Hamas’ charter to do just that.

Why does it matter if it was in Hamas charter? The Quran and prophet literally call for jihad and the murder of nonbelievers.

To be fair, the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 13 and 17, for example) and the Talmud say much the same.

I must have missed the news about Christians committing unprovoked acts of holy war in the name of God.

So Jews can cop to their fairytales being no better when it comes to viciously brutal human rights abuses than Islamic fairytales because Crusades, Inquisition, etc.?

Weird logic, but par for the course, I guess.

I must have missed the news of thousands of Jewish terror attacks on civilians and children in the name of God over the past few decades.

All religions are fairy tales. Some more harmful than others.

Yeah, you totally did. Give a history lesson another go, chief.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone who isn’t a Jew, a Christian fundamentalist, or an American politician who has been bought by Israel not despise Israel now? Their politicians and soldiers are just total shits, and so are a substantial percentage of the civilians. The people there who want peace and equality seem to be overwhelmed by the obnoxious, entitled creeps who have no problem stealing other people’s land, bombing them into oblivion, and then laughing about it. It seems inevitable that the day will come when they’ll pay a heavy price for their actions.

Anyone who's not a convinced anti-semite has a more nuanced perspective than that.

Ergo...

DP say the person who just cheered on the killing on 23,000 people.

And how many non combatant civilians globally have been blown up by militant jihadists?

THAT’S your argument?

Israel should be held to jihadist standards? And, in fact, because the kill rate of Palestinian non-combatant civilians to Israeli non-combatant civilians over the past 76 years is perhaps 15:1, it follows that Israel is not only no better than jihadists, but actually at least 15x worse?

#hasbarafail

All nations are responsible for the safety of their citizens. Israel failed on 10/7. Of course terrorists will continue to murder Israeli civilians, they are quite literally commanded by God to do so. Unfortunately Hamas chooses to co mingle their combatants with civilians so civilians deaths are relatively high.

Israel and Zionist supporters of Israel’s actions are guilty of the exact same “commanded by God” murderous intent, though, right?

The unequivocal aim of Zionism is to entitle a group of mostly non-indigenous immigrants to act upon the supposed fairytale promise of land in a region with existing indigenous people, for the purpose of physically displacing them (or if they won’t leave voluntarily, killing them), in furtherance of establishing and sustaining a Jewish homeland.

What’s the difference, professor?

No. Every state regardless of religion has a responsibility to protect its civilians and territory. This is not unique to Zionism.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are the hostages? It’s day 91.

And, where are the calls to release them?

Are you brain damaged? The calls to release the hostages have been coming from day one. But Hamas continues to play games. And one sad truth is that a significant number of the hostages are already dead yet Hamas continues to try and use them as bargaining chips, because they have nothing else.

My guess is that the hostages that a were released are the only ones left alive. Hamas didn’t release 1:1 hostages for prisoners because they didn’t have enough to give. Chances are most of them were killed within 48 hours. That’s the tragic statistic for kidnapping and murder in general, why wouldn’t it hold for this scenario? Children who are kidnapped and murdered are typically killed in the first few hours. Terribly sad but true.

Hostages are kidnapped to get something, not to kill them. If Hamas aimed to kill them, they could have easily done it on Oct 7. It would certainly be easier than dragging them across the border and then feed them, treat them and move them constantly so they don't get killed by Israeli bombs.

The bolded is essentially correct.

But one of the things that terrorists want to "get" is revenge. I hate to say it, but it's likely that some of the remaining hostages have been tortured or abused to such an extent that Hamas cannot release them for political reasons.

They'll simply disappear or Hamas will claim that they were "killed in an Israeli airstrike".

Others may be out of Hamas's direct control at this point--given the number of hostages, Hamas almost certainly had to outsource their captivity to affiliated groups and individuals.

Given the fog of war, I doubt Hamas even has the ability to track all of them down at this point.

+1000
It is so sad/infuriating to think of the fate of the remaining hostages, especially given the reports of abuse suffered by those who were released. How much worse must those remaining be treated for Hamas to decide it would be bad PR for them to let them go and tell their stories?

Exactly. The “keep smiling” videos showed the side of Hamas these poor kidnapped children saw. Sinister and cruel. They would absolutely kill as the “reward” for kidnapping Jews. After all, it’s in Hamas’ charter to do just that.

Why does it matter if it was in Hamas charter? The Quran and prophet literally call for jihad and the murder of nonbelievers.

To be fair, the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 13 and 17, for example) and the Talmud say much the same.

I must have missed the news about Christians committing unprovoked acts of holy war in the name of God.

So Jews can cop to their fairytales being no better when it comes to viciously brutal human rights abuses than Islamic fairytales because Crusades, Inquisition, etc.?

Weird logic, but par for the course, I guess.

I must have missed the news of thousands of Jewish terror attacks on civilians and children in the name of God over the past few decades.

All religions are fairy tales. Some more harmful than others.

Yeah, you totally did. Give a history lesson another go, chief.

Please provide a cite for number of terror attacks committed by Jews or Christians in the past two decades. The number for Islamic Jihadists is over 5000.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are the hostages? It’s day 91.

And, where are the calls to release them?

Are you brain damaged? The calls to release the hostages have been coming from day one. But Hamas continues to play games. And one sad truth is that a significant number of the hostages are already dead yet Hamas continues to try and use them as bargaining chips, because they have nothing else.

My guess is that the hostages that a were released are the only ones left alive. Hamas didn’t release 1:1 hostages for prisoners because they didn’t have enough to give. Chances are most of them were killed within 48 hours. That’s the tragic statistic for kidnapping and murder in general, why wouldn’t it hold for this scenario? Children who are kidnapped and murdered are typically killed in the first few hours. Terribly sad but true.

Hostages are kidnapped to get something, not to kill them. If Hamas aimed to kill them, they could have easily done it on Oct 7. It would certainly be easier than dragging them across the border and then feed them, treat them and move them constantly so they don't get killed by Israeli bombs.

The bolded is essentially correct.

But one of the things that terrorists want to "get" is revenge. I hate to say it, but it's likely that some of the remaining hostages have been tortured or abused to such an extent that Hamas cannot release them for political reasons.

They'll simply disappear or Hamas will claim that they were "killed in an Israeli airstrike".

Others may be out of Hamas's direct control at this point--given the number of hostages, Hamas almost certainly had to outsource their captivity to affiliated groups and individuals.

Given the fog of war, I doubt Hamas even has the ability to track all of them down at this point.

+1000
It is so sad/infuriating to think of the fate of the remaining hostages, especially given the reports of abuse suffered by those who were released. How much worse must those remaining be treated for Hamas to decide it would be bad PR for them to let them go and tell their stories?

Exactly. The “keep smiling” videos showed the side of Hamas these poor kidnapped children saw. Sinister and cruel. They would absolutely kill as the “reward” for kidnapping Jews. After all, it’s in Hamas’ charter to do just that.

Why does it matter if it was in Hamas charter? The Quran and prophet literally call for jihad and the murder of nonbelievers.

To be fair, the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 13 and 17, for example) and the Talmud say much the same.

To be fair there are no Talmudists blowing up people globally.

Let's not forget the Haganah, the Irgun, or the Stern Gang. In 1945, Zionist terrorists in Palestine targeted oil refineries, colonial railways, and police boats. They also blew up the King David Hotel and perpetrated several massacres of Palestinian living in their villages, including at Balad al-Sheikh, Saasaa, Deir Yassin, Saliha, and Lydda. Survivors of Deir Yassin described Zionist terrorists raping women, cutting fetuses out of pregnant women, and executing scores of people.

Israel was built on terrorism. What it is doing in the West Bank and Gaza is state-sponsored terrorism.