Egypt refuses to allow in Palestinians who want to leave Gaza voluntarily.

Rape isn't resistance. Kidnapping babies isn't resistance. Mutilating people and shooting them in the genitals isn't resistance. Murdering a mother and then posing for a photograph for your Telegram channel, while holding her children with her dead body in the background isn't resistance. Shooting an eight year old boy in the head on his way back from a family camping trip for his birthday isn't resistance. You may not condone it so you say, but you've just tried to justify it. Shame on you.

I don't condone Hamas, legally under international law they do have a right to armed resistance but only against legitimate military targets which clearly did not happen on October 7th.
That said, the Israeli government absolutely do have hostages and evidence has been given in the ICC detailing the torture and sexual abuse that happens in their prisons. There's also evidence showing they potentially were aware of the intended plans and let it happen to give them an opportunity like this. This has been reported by Israel's own media.

What many people don't seem to understand is that the Israeli government pushed for people in Gaza to vote for Hamas instead of the opposition when they were originally voted into power. Money was funneled to them because they knew that Hamas, unlike the opposition agreed with armed resistance and it would further legitimize the Zionist cause.

Even if the Israeli government were targeting Hamas, that doesn't explain the actions they are currently taking in other areas of Palestine not controlled by Hamas. This is just their opportunity to clear as much people and land as they can regardless of who they kill. Do you know they call it 'mowing the lawn'? That's when they carry out an attack on the Palestinian people.They say it's good for the cause to get rid of Palestinians every so often because they can clear the way for more occupation.

And lastly, as I've said I don't condone the actions of Hamas but what would you do? If you were anexed to an open concentration camp, where an apartheid system controls who is allowed to leave, where every peace talks are intentionally collapsed by those you are supposed to make agreements with. When your people are kidnapped, assaulted and murdered just for where they were born. Would you consider turning to an armed resistance? Remember people called Nelson Mandela a terrorist once too.

I wonder why 🙄

I wonder if you even know when the last elections were in Gaza? I wonder if you know that a lot of the civilisns being murdered by Israel weren't even old enough to vote in the last elections?

And to insinuate individuals are terrorists simply because of their ethnicity is racist yes, so the cap clearly fits and you are happy to wear it.

If that were true aren't you angry with Hamas for causing all this death and destruction?

Israel doesn't have hostages, it has prisoners, far different from the innocent civilians Hamas took including children and the elderly. They even kidnapped dead bodies

What did Hamas think was going to happen?

Sorry @CrunchyKnees I've just seen I repeated what you said

Why? Russia started a war by invading a sovereign nation. They went on the offensive.

Israel was forced into a war after being invaded. Israel had to go on the defensive.

Completely different scenario

Incorrect. In Lebanon Palestinians caused a civil war and in Jordan they tried to overthrow the king. It's not just to do with fear of harbouring terrorists, although Egypt gave enough problems of their own with the Muslim Brotherhood

I really want to understand how my grandfather, who would have been murdered if he remained in his home country, (Germany) was a coloniser.

Was my grandmothers family colonisers because they left Poland and moved to the UK? Or is that only ok because they just barely tolerated and allowed to stay?

Is a black Nigerian who migrates to Israel also a coloniser?

Where SHOULD we go?

The Palestinians elected a terrorist organisation to govern them. The temptation to equate them with terrorists is just too obvious. Is it racist to point that out?

If you could forgo the temptation to equate Palestinian with terrorist then perhaps you wouldn't sound like a racist?

Perhaps the UK should condemn Israel like it does Russia?

Perhaps the UK should be offering sanctuary to all those nice Palestinians, like we did with Ukrainians. What could possibly go wrong?

The Countries are terrified of what happens when they allow the refugees in and are accused of harbouring terrorists.

"Voluntarily leaving" is also a bit of a stretch, I mean its technically correct but its more like leaving the forest because its on fire.

What offends me (enormously) is the amount of people who defend a genocide.

"The Palestinian project" I suspect you actually mean the very existence of Palestinians offends you 🙄

But that’s not what this thread is about.

Palestinians are already refugees, IN Palestine. They even have an association specifically to keep them that way. It’s called UNWRA. So how does that work?

It’s time people started to realise that the Palestinian project has been a very, very long game to discredit and destroy the Jewish people.

If there’s no way to blame the Jews nobody is interested.

Palestinians only want to leave because Israel are carrying out a genocide. No Palestinians should be so terrified for their lives that have to become refugees in a foreign land, they should have their own safe sovereign land. And no that does not mean erasing Israel.