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Israel does NOT have the right to defend itself! - According to a UN Special Rapporteur, an independent human rights expert that is called upon to advise the UN of human rights said, in November 2023, Isreal does not have the right to defend itself because you cannot claim self-defense against an armed force from within a territory that you are actively keeping under “belligerent occupation” https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2023/11/15/un-special-rapporteur-israel-cant-claim-right-of-self-defence - Isreal refuses Palestinian statehood, here's an article from 2012 about it https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2009/1115/p01s01-wome.html/(page)/2 -145 of the 193, 75% of UN members recognize Palestine as a state, THE US DOES NOT AND HAS VEOTED THE ATTEMPTS OF THE UN VOTING FOR PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD. THE US IS AGAINST PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD, its on the record. https://m.primal.net/KWSF.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine#cite_note-35 - Isreal is expanding its settlements past the boundaries defined by the UN in 1949 as the Armistice Lines https://m.primal.net/KWSt.png - and to that point, the UN was ruling (backing in 2016) that Israel’s settlements have no legal validity and constitute a flagrant violation of international law https://press.un.org/en/2016/sc12657.doc.htm - Isreal has been funding Hamas to “counterweight” other organizations within Palestine in efforts to create a militant enemy within Gaza https://www.tbsnews.net/hamas-israel-war/how-israel-went-helping-create-hamas-bombing-it-718378 - THIS YEAR Israel has been selling stolen Palestinian land from Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem to people WITHIN THE US and the US government and JOE BIDEN has publically said that the protest to the sale of the stolen land is “antisemitic”. https://therealnews.com/illegal-real-estate-sales-of-palestinian-land-are-happening-around-the-us https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/outrageous-pro-palestine-activists-slam-biden-labelling-protest-antisemitic Israel and the Israel Occupation Forces (IOF, not IDF) does NOT have the right to defend itself. PALESTINE HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF FROM THE APARTHEID STATE OCCUPYING THEIR LAND AND VIOLATING THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS!!!! Get it together people. Its 2024