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A Reasonable Case for Limited Support for Armed Attacks on Israel by the Palestinian Armed Groups and the Axis of Resistance

A Reasonable Case for Limited Support for Armed Attacks on Israel by the Palestinian Armed Groups and the Axis of Resistance

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Oct 12, 2024
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Israel's project from Day One has been to steal by armed force all of the land of Palestine and to throw out all or as many as possible of the Palestinians.

People who lived in Israel for the first 30 years of their lives have written that this is well known as the very purpose of the Israeli state. They say everyone in Israel knows that this is the project and everyone goes along with it.

If you support Israel, this is what you support.

You can’t say

Well I don’t support the settlements. I support a 2 state solution.

You can’t say that because that’s never been Israel’s project. Its project, as I noted, has from Day One been stealing the whole place at gunpoint and throwing all the natives off the land. That’s Israel. Israel’s never been about anything else, not for a day.

You see any room for two states in there? Of course not. You see any opposition to “settlements” in there? Of course not. The very existence and project of the Israeli state itself revolves around endlessly increasing t…

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