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Gaza is literally not occupied by Israel. Israel withdrew all troops and even banished their own citizens from Gaza. All the Palestinians had to do was not be absolute savages and attack Israel after being given their land with no strings attached.

Every single restriction put of Gaza was a direct result of the Palestinian's abuse of the disengagement to fire rockets and kidnap soldiers. All they had to do was simply live in peace, instead they proved to every watching Israeli that Palestinians are bloodthirsty savages. After the result of the disengagement from Gaza being this, only radical left in Israel even contemplates giving Palestinians sovereignty.

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BronzeAge: a lot of the facts you are reporting are true and you’re sharing an important perspective that’s missing in this conversation but your comment is turned into complete garbage by the fact that you’re dehumanizing the Palestinians and making yourself look like a genocidal idiot. Stop!! If you have useful criticisms and perspective to add (as you clearly do), add them, and leave out the racism and bloodlust. I don’t care how “accurate” the rest of your analysis is you can’t call a whole population savages, it’s the dehumanizing precursor to mass violence.

I can't reply to bronzeage's comment above so I'm adding my comment here.

> Gaza is literally not occupied by Israel.

That is according to Israel and I believe also the US. Everyone else, including the UN, most world governments, international organisations etc consider Gaza to be still occupied, despite the "disengagement".

In practical terms, the "disengagement" means nothing. Gaza is penned in and the Palestinians have nowhere to go. The IDF goes in anytime it likes.

More accurately, Gaza would be described as a vast prison, but I think "occupied territory" is a milder and less shocking description, so actually kinder to Israel. In truth, what Israel is doing to Gaza and its inhabitants is unprecedented in world history and will drag Israel's reputation to the gutter for generations to come.

I'll point out that bronzeage's comment strikes me as stage 4 of genocide (see http://genocidewatch.net/genocide-2/8-stages-of-genocide/ for a description of the different stages).

And of the various stages, stage 4 is the most critical one to me: the prior stages are all things that exist in generally healthy societies, because it's really, really hard to stamp out discrimination (that doesn't mean we shouldn't try!), but stage 4 is where the rhetoric about outright extermination is built. Everything that comes afterwards is more or less about turning the slaughter from one-off incidents into a systematic slaughter machine.

There is nothing racist or inaccurate in the comment you're replying to. I understand why you might think so, but I can assure you, it just means that you dramatically misunderstand the situation.

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