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whoeverlovesDigit | 5 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This reply is mostly good but Hamas has nothing to do with the US controlling both sides in Gaza.

Walling 2 million people into an open-air prison and terrorizing them is enough to make them act like 2 million people being terrorized in an open-air prison.

Walling those 2 million people in is done by funding Israel, not Hamas.

Any funding given to Hamas is just to stir the pot a bit extra, while the flame of the stove (under the stirred pot) is in funding Israel.
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pkt | 5 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Gaza wasn't an open air prison.

If it was, over 1000 Israeli's wouldn't have been murdered by Hamas and other Gazans on Oct 7th.

If anything, it's a really good argument to seal up Gaza for good and actually make it into an open air prison. Because allowing goods to flow freely into Gaza, and Gazans to travel in and out of Gaza, is stupidly dangerous.

The unfortunate reality is most Gazans (and many other Muslims) want Jews dead for b.s. religious reasons. That's not going to change no matter how nice Israel is to them. They're evil people with evil beliefs, and on average they're quite a bit less smart and successful than Israeli Jews. It's a recipe for violence that can't easily be changed.

This also shows how as much as you can rightfully say what the settler movement is doing is unethical, the settlers forcing Palestinians out of the West Bank has also saved the lives of a lot of Jews. Oct 7th helped legitimize the settler movement.
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whoeverlovesDigit | 5 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Stopped reading when you started with 2 sentences of you presenting bad logic as if it was actually logical.

Learn to read instead of just making up logical fallacies.