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  • It definitely began in 2023. Sure, there have been other wars in the history of conflicts between Jews and Arabs, but they're all individual wars.

    I, personally, blame both the Jews and Arabs, but mostly the Arabs. It took until 1973 for them to give up on the idea of ethnically cleansing the area. Jewish Zionist nationalism is at least mostly respectful of the civil rights of their Arab minority.

  • And, here's the thing - before the war they started, Gaza wasn't under occupation. No settlements, no occupation. And the only reason there was a blockade is to try to prevent Hamas from getting what they need to launch rockets.

    The West Bank is a different situation. But the dynamic in Gaza is clear - Hamas is the primary reason behind the plight of the citizens of Gaza. They will never build towards the future in peace, and them attacking Israeli soldiers isn't fighting an occupier to free people but rather trying to kill the defenders to enable a genocide.

  • Rodrigues, for his part, seized on a portion of the toolkit that labeled the attack, now known as “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” as “the resistance”

    Yeah, they are. That's really, really gross. If I was a member of a local org whose national org told me to refer to a massive terrorist attack on civilians as "the resistance" I'd either quit the local org or demand it disassociate.

    You should also watch out for people who say "from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free". They might be just naive, but the Arabic original version of that phrase is an explicit call to genocide or at best ethnic cleansing.

  • This is a very clear violation of the first amendment. Their rhetoric is ghastly and apologism for Hamas is beyond the pale.

    But this is a free country. College students must be free to advocate for their own ideas, no matter how fucked up they are, unless they get to the point of actually inciting violence here in the US.

  • Yes, it's entirely Hamas's fault, because they are adults, not children, and are responsible for their own actions. Criticism of Netanyahu for prior relationships his government had with Hamas is justifiable and reasonable, but at the end of the day, if someone breaks into a home and rapes and murders the inhabitants, they're responsible for what they did.