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 It’s not a dictatorship cauldron as much as it’s simply a barbaric death-cult, a political tool for foreign regimes to strike the only non-islamic country in the region as part of their religious fantasies.
Gaza is not North Korea. Many of them worked in Israel and were open to western media, they have seen the world and still choose political Islam over the alternatives, just like many of their brothers that migrated to Europe.

The symmetric approach, that people actions are only a result of their environment, leaves no room for discussion. If you were born a Viking you probably would have become a Viking… well I don’t expect much from kids but I want to believe that as an adult, that knows better, I would have acted like those brave Iranians that spray graffiti, burn propaganda street signs and film themselves in secret.
Instead, the adults rally their kids like this: https://x.com/themossadil/status/1802394628513206411

(and this was filmed in Tulkarm in the West Bank under the PLO, the so called “moderates” that Biden wants us to make peace with, located here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/wWP56eZht895MfP38 ).