The Situation in Israel/Palestine

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Some grown men are scared of a tiny little girl.

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I understand the point, but she’s 22. Just because she was smart enough to start activism young doesn’t mean she’s not an adult woman now.

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The image that remains of her is still that of a very confident teenager defying common sense. And people still fear her, attacking her, without caring about the causes she is fighting for.

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Splinter on a previous attempt to break the Gaza blockade from a former Irish Rugby player, Trevor Hogan, who was on a ship called Saoire (freedom, I think).

From the article…

Eventually the ship runs out of juice, and they managed to board the ship and take it over. And they’re blasting water through the windows and you see the commandos coming on and they’re all balaclava’d up young lads. You can see the terror. Their eyeballs are intense, screaming at you. They’re so young, but they’re just so brainwashed—and that society’s gone even worse in the last decade—and they can’t compute, can’t understand, why we are doing this. Trying to help what they view as Palestinian sub-humans. They just don’t understand. They think we’re the ones who are brainwashed. So it’s a real standoff, and it’s a real sense of, oh, there’s no talking to them.

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https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2025/06/12/iran-warns-israel-its-retaliation-to-any-attack-will-be-unprecedented

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Didn’t they do this with Mandatory Palestine in the 1st place?

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Taking other people’s land to make your state: it’s one of the big reasons US governments love Israel.

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https://english.alarabiya.net/webtv/programs/w-news/2025/06/12/israel-mulls-solo-strike-on-iran-s-nuclear-sites-as-usiran-talks-set-to-resume

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My relatives who live in Israel were woke up by sirens and are waiting for further instructions.

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FTA:

Israelis Are Convinced Palestinians Want to Leave Gaza.

How on earth would anyone leap to that conclusion? What they’ve put up with to stay there breaks my imagination. It’s not something you’d do if you wanted to leave.

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