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Conflict in the Middle East

Ever look at how many suicide attacks the Palestinians committed before the Gaza blockade?

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Babycatsarenice · 23/10/2024 10:57

Gaza was blocked by Israel in 2007 due to increasing suicide attacks committed by Gazan Palestinians in Israel. Take a look at how many there were! No wonder Israel created a blockade.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_attacks

List of Palestinian suicide attacks - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_attacks

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WeAreOnTheRoadToNowhere · 23/10/2024 17:10

I hear people shout about Gaza having been an open air prison and how the Palestinians need refuge and blame Israel but they don't comment about the wall stopping them getting to Egypt or the reluctance of surrounding Islamic countries that won't give them refuge

Oodiks · 23/10/2024 17:03

PeasfullPerson · 23/10/2024 16:46

From Human Rights Watch

‘Israeli authorities do face legitimate security challenges in Israel and the OPT. However, restrictions that do not seek to balance human rights such as freedom of movement against legitimate security concerns by, for example, conducting individualized security assessments rather than barring the entire population of Gaza from leaving with only rare exceptions, go far beyond what international law permits. Even where security forms part of the motivation behind a particular policy, that does not give Israel a carte blanche to violate human rights en masse. Legitimate security concerns can be present among policies that amount to apartheid, just as they can be present in a policy that sanctions the use of excessive force or torture.’

https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution

And your point is?

herecomesautumn · 23/10/2024 17:01

PeasfullPerson · 23/10/2024 16:46

From Human Rights Watch

‘Israeli authorities do face legitimate security challenges in Israel and the OPT. However, restrictions that do not seek to balance human rights such as freedom of movement against legitimate security concerns by, for example, conducting individualized security assessments rather than barring the entire population of Gaza from leaving with only rare exceptions, go far beyond what international law permits. Even where security forms part of the motivation behind a particular policy, that does not give Israel a carte blanche to violate human rights en masse. Legitimate security concerns can be present among policies that amount to apartheid, just as they can be present in a policy that sanctions the use of excessive force or torture.’

https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution

What's that got to do with palestinian suicide bombers?

PeasfullPerson · 23/10/2024 16:48

Also, from the same source…

‘Several widely held assumptions, including that the occupation is temporary, that the “peace process” will soon bring an end to Israeli abuses, that Palestinians have meaningful control over their lives in the West Bank and Gaza, and that Israel is an egalitarian democracy inside its borders, have obscured the reality of Israel’s entrenched discriminatory rule over Palestinians. Israel has maintained military rule over some portion of the Palestinian population for all but six months of its 73-year history. It did so over the vast majority of Palestinians inside Israel from 1948 and until 1966. From 1967 until the present, it has militarily ruled over Palestinians in the OPT, excluding East Jerusalem. By contrast, it has since its founding governed all Jewish Israelis, including settlers in the OPT since the beginning of the occupation in 1967, under its more rights-respecting civil law.’

PeasfullPerson · 23/10/2024 16:46

From Human Rights Watch

‘Israeli authorities do face legitimate security challenges in Israel and the OPT. However, restrictions that do not seek to balance human rights such as freedom of movement against legitimate security concerns by, for example, conducting individualized security assessments rather than barring the entire population of Gaza from leaving with only rare exceptions, go far beyond what international law permits. Even where security forms part of the motivation behind a particular policy, that does not give Israel a carte blanche to violate human rights en masse. Legitimate security concerns can be present among policies that amount to apartheid, just as they can be present in a policy that sanctions the use of excessive force or torture.’

https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution

A boy runs alongside a tall concrete wall

A Threshold Crossed

The 213-page report, “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution,” examines Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. It presents the present-day reality of a single authority, the Israeli government, ruling primaril...

https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution

herecomesautumn · 23/10/2024 16:28

They don't care because it doesn't suit the narrative of Palestinians = good, Israeli = bad

Babycatsarenice · 23/10/2024 14:17

It's an inconvenient truth

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OrangeBlossomBlue · 23/10/2024 12:28

I was thinking about this earlier, either people have very short memories or they genuinely don’t know or care!