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juan | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 You seem to suffer from tribalistic thinking. What is happening in Gaza is clearly a genocide and the conditions have been moving in that direction since the Palestinian Authority was removed from power in the 2000s. It isn't even a matter of marxism or conservatism - that is lazy thinking done from a position where you have no particular stake in the governance of Palestinians
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Shim | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What? The PA lost in elections to Hamas in 2007.

The ones who are committing genocide are the Arab militias between the Jordan and the sea. Their stated goal is to annihilate any Jews within the above boundaries, and they have the implicit or explicit support of around 60-80% of "Palestinians". Have you ever read the Hamas charter?
This is what's brought down in article 6:

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." 

Palestinians as a national entity are a fiction conjured by Nazi collaborator Amin al-Husseini for the sole purpose of committing genocide against the Jews. That's why he met with Hitler. The Palestinians are the occupiers who came from Arabia. Their governance is an Israeli issue. 

This isn't about tribalism. It's about justice and preserving natural rights.