A Palestinian suicide bomber blew off my friend's legs and an arm thirty years ago. Palestinians and Arabs who live in Israel (and work here on work permits, as Gaza is a self governing entity) have all the rights of Israeli citizens. The people who talk about the Naqba don't understand the land was bought fairly from Palestinians, who left the country of their own free will. Those Palestinians that did not sell, are now Israeli citizens living on the land they did not sell. In 1948 the Palestinians were offered a two-state solution which they refused, and have refused the many other offers ever since. Gazans and Hamas have been dropping bombs on Israel for the last forty years, Eight thousand bombs were tossed at Israel since October 7th. Hamas charter states that Palestinians should kill every Jew they come across (as well as anyone else who is not Muslim). Israel handed over the Gaza Strip after the Arabs lost another war that they initiated.

Also what happened in 1929?

But you have no problem finding compassion for people who kidnap, torture, murder, and publicly behead anyone they can get their hands on while in their rage? Wasn't a 2 year old AMERICAN one of the recently released kidnap victims (weeks after the attack, I'd like to add)? How do you think the family of that child feels to see fellow Americans posting that we should all have compassion for a group who commits such murderous atrocities, while ironically refusing to do the same to their enemies?

@ThanosFingers: OP said Palestinians, not Hamas. Are you suggesting every single Palestinian is a terrorist / murderer?

@ThanosFingers: I am not sure if your comment was to me or someone else. I just wanted to ask why you specified the kid being „American“. Does it make the kid any more important from other kids in the world in your opinion? It sure sounds like it.

No receipts for beheadings nor rapes done by Hamas. This was fully and completely a mere propaganda. For some reason all of the west got moved and touched by these false news, while no one seemed to care when thousands of Palestinians were pushed outside of their country, made to live as refugees for their who life with minimal human rights and when the rest lived in an open prison in their own country with minimal resources and prospects for a future cs they cannot move anywhere, literally ANYWHERE. Add on that the daily fear of a new wave of random Israeli threats, bombing, humiliation, kidnapping and murdering. Keep one thing in your mind, the daily rights that you take for granted, like your right to travel, visit different places, own properties and study, are ones that Palestinians lack, while the Israelis are fully enjoying all those rights. What a world where the thief gets to enjoy the house and the homeowner has to stay locked in the basement!

Hamas posted their atrocities on Telegram as they were committing those monstrous crimes. To say they didn't do those monstrous acts is making you a propaganda arm of Hamas. Hamas also has droped thousands of bombs on Israel for the last thirty or so years. But yeah, Israel bad for not allowing Hamas to kill their citizens, when Hamas kills Palestinians all the time. And Gaza was never occupied - it is a self-governing entity where people can come and go with visas just like any other country. Family members travel from the US into and out of, Gaza all the time. Israel has blockaded Gaza because we're sick and tired of being attacked. Egypt and Jordan also blockades Gazans from entering their countries because they send bombers into those countries. Look up Black September. Why do you think no Arab country wants them?

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The funny thing is that no one is seeing how a big part of what happened on October the 7th was simply a plan put by Israelis to justify the cleansing if Palestinians from Gaza especially northern Gaza where Israelis have logistical and financial interests.

With respect, that is not correct. This conflict did not begin one month ago.

It began when the land was broken up into 70% to Transjordania (renamed Jordan) and 30% to Israel. I wonder why the Palestinians don't wage war on Jordan for the 70% of their land that is Palestine? Wouldn't have anything to do with religion would it?

@Ixanga Cancun: you can easily look up maps over the last few decades and see that are numbers are simply not true. Palestine was 100% Palestine before 1948, then from 1949 to 1976, Palestine was made into Israel with about 20-30% of the country going to Jordan. Since 1967, Jordan doesn't own any land formerly known as Palestine, it's all Israel. The answer why Palestinians don't fight Jordan is because Jordan hasn't owned Palestinian land for nearly 60 years.

Are you not aware that prior to 1948 the land was inhabited by Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews? Yes, they were literally called Palestinian Jews before Israel came into being. And Arabs were offered the two state solution, which they refused, preferring to attack Israel from the inception. Jews are indigenous to the are since it was called Judea. Islam was not a religion until 500 years AFTER the Jewish religion came into being. Arabs, however, decided to eradicate Jews from the Middle East, giving them far less rights and simply exterminating them in Arab lands, which is why Jews decided they needed a safe homeland. So half a billion Arabs in all the surrounding Arab states have decided that ten million Jews should not be allowed to live on their own tiny little country.

With respect, the Palestinian people would not still be in Israel following the 6-day war in the 60s had Israel not showed compassion at the time and allowed it to continue, despite continuous bombardment of their people and cities, and threats of annihilation from literally EVERY neighboring country, which also just so happen to be majority Muslim nations. This would be like a bunch of liberal Americans moving over to China, calling themselves a nation with a new name, and then after 100 years of being treated like Americans in China, claiming that we have a right to Chinese land because we've been oppressed. Yes, we have, but largely by choice. Borders have never been intended to keep people IN your country. The reality of the situation is the Jewish people own the country, and will continue to defend militarily against an enemy that finds acts of terror like kidnapping and beheading infants an acceptable form of protest. I would venture to bet you would do the same.

Their cities?!! That’s where the mistake starts. Any city in Palestine is a Palestinian city stolen by Israelis. For you to consider these as Israeli cities has to mean that you condone stealing.

Actually Gaza was given to the Palestinians, complete with huge greenhouses, businesses, free electricity and water supplied by Israel, and numerous businesses for which Israel forced out IT"S OWN PEOPLE to give to Palestinians. Palestinians destroyed the greenhouses and built bombs, while telling their children they should kill every Jew they can - literally, this is on their version of Sesame Street.

You are right. Palestinians have been bombing Israel with bombs and suicide bombers for decades. In fact Arafat started that trend, and they found it worked.

No they didn't. This has been a situation for 2000years.

Do you hear yourself? Is this really the excuse you’re going to use to justify the stealing of others’ lands and ethnic genocide in 2023! This is really shocking

Read a history book. No they did not. Israel attacked 40 years before Hamas was even formed.

Please read about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and get your free infromation. Don’t let the media influence you. The ‘Israelis’ stole Palestinians’ land and country and have continued to do so for more than 60 years now,

Read history of the area: the land was never 'stolen'. Jews are indigenous to the area since it was called Judea. As were Arabs. The propaganda of IDF killing babies is ridiculous, and if you could read any Arab newspaper you would see what they say about Jews, we apparently drink their babies blood for breakfast among other things. This is literally said in the major Arab newspapers everywhere. Jews offered to share Israel in a two state solution, Arabs refused and chose to attack many times, The so-called Naqba was land legally bought from many Palestinains who chose to sell: those that didn't sell are still landowners with full rights in Israel. As are many other Arabs living there peacefully. There are even Arabs and Druze in the IDF.

You are right: Hamas charter says they will genocide every Jew they can find. This is in their government charter. So how do you propose we fight that?

The Mufti of Jerusalem was very much in favour of Hitler and collaborated with him on the understanding that the Nazis would get rid of the Jews in the then British Mandate after he had been victorious! Still the same mindset.

They voted in terrorists. They made their bed and now they have to deal with the consequences. They absolutely can fight hamas. They can help the IDF or pick up weapons themselves. Regardless the situations are entirely different between the Middle East and Putlers Genocide of a sovereign nation who did not attack anyone. Yet Palestinians are still protecting Hamas leaders. Don't get me wrong though. I don't think Israel is innocent. Their settlement and treatment of Palestine before hand was not remotely okay. Both 'sides' are to blame and until they stop killing each other nothing will change.

They voted in Hamas out of sheer desperation because of so many years of oppression and after Al Nakba massacres and displacement, etc etc. You may not condone what Hamas do (I don't) but the reasoning is totally understandable.

Read your history. There was no Naqba massacre, except in the Palestinian propaganda, which conveniently gets them billions in aid money, which conveniently allows their 'leaders to live large in Dubai and Qatar.

there's literal photographic evidence of the Nakba massacres, concentration camps, and displacement, you idiot.

The first president of Israel was a terrorist. The IDF is literally the terrorist group Haganah, just renamed. Likkud was built from a terrorist group. There are current members of the Israeli parliament who are convicted terrorists. So don't try and get high and mighty with the "they voted for hamas!" rubbish. That was almost 20 years ago. More than 50% of the population of gaza wasn't born when was hamas was elected. While we're at it, let's not forget that hamas was funded by and promoted by Israel as a moderate group in opposition to Fatah and other secular Palestinian political parties.