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 The Zionist narrative relies on people being ignorant of history. Before Oct 7, my grasp of the history of Israel’s illegal invasion of Palestine was sketchy. Now it’s not. I went and informed myself of history. I’m still learning. This didn’t start on Oct 7. It started in 1948. Actually, it started well before 1948, but 1948 is when the Nakba happened, and the history of the Nakba is harrowing reading. But as a naive American in the 60s, my understanding of history was limited to the Zionist movie “Exodus”. American Zionists were furiously turning the crank on a propaganda mill like few others in history. In the 80s it was easy for Americans to hate Yasser Arafat and the PLO. They were comic book villains. The Zionist narrative was “These Palestinian villains suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and with no provocation on our part they just started killing us peace-loving innocent Jews”. The reality is that Israel created Hamas and the PLO. Hamas, and the PLO   before it, were, and  continue to be, useful idiots. Hamas is going to be annihilated by the IDF. The IDF are going to exterminate as many Palestinian civilians as they can. It’s textbook genocide.  People who support Israel are evil. 
 support as in actually support
or say "rah rah go israel" 
 Read about Haganah and Irgun, Jewish Terrorist groups which bombed British ships and hotels with people inside to pressure them to give land to Jews.

They later formed IDF and Likudz the party of Neytaniahu.

Read about Ben Gvir and Bezeleel Smotrich, convicted of terrorism and now high ranking Ministers of Israel (one of them even control West Bank now). Read how Baruch Holstein, which massacred 29 Palestinians in the 90s, is their hero now.

Read about king David hotel bombing.

And also see this documentary:

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=Bwy-Rf15UIs 
 Baruch Goldstein, not Holstein  
 You are, sadly, still misinformed. 

“Israel created Hamas and the PLO”.  Wow.  Think about what you are saying here. 

This statement is not only false, it’s racist as hell and presents Palestinians as helpless, gullible, and incapable of self-determination.

Spare me any additional conspiracy theories or antisemitic comments. Simply  look at what you wrote and consider what you are saying about the Palestinians. You’re showing them very little respect.