Sunday, November 19, 2023

Support for Palestine/Israel???

One poll, widely promoted by alternative news, shows only 30% of Americans support Israel. Like most other attempts at 'facts', other polls show most Americans support Israel. Judging by comments on Arcamax, a huge majority support Israel, all have heard how Israel gave the Palestinians in Gaza fertile farms, greenhouses, wells, homes, etc., etc., but the Palestinians destroyed everything touched by a Jewish hand, leaving themselves with no way to produce food, hence 50% of all Gazans are now malnourished, and all their own fault.

That Israel cut off water and fishing and shoots farmers trying to grow crops is well documented but must never be mentioned. It's all the fault of the Palestinians in Gaza.

Then, after destroying their own livelihood, the Palestinians in Gaza viciously murdered 1,400 innocent Israeli civilians and say they'll keep doing it.

If one reads The Grayzone, many of the Israelis killed were in the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF), in a fort that had no guards and the gates unlocked, so not exactly civilians. And a lot of the civilians were killed by the IOF to prevent their being taken hostage. But few read The Grayzone, and of those few, not all believe what they read there.

So what can Israel do except remove every Palestinian from the Gaza? The Israelis are willing to let the Palestinians in Gaza who can prove they are not in Hamas go to Egypt; however, Egypt have only accepted those who have passports, so they would just be briefly passing through Egypt on their way to whatever other country passport they hold, and very sick or badly injured Palestinians only accepted for treatment then return to Gaza.

If Egypt refuse to admit them, Israel feel the only way they can be safe from brutal, unprovoked attacks is to exterminate all the Palestinians in Gaza. The choice is up to Egypt and maybe other Arab states who would agree to accept all those Palestinians in Gaza who can prove they are not part of Hamas.

And a lot of Americans figure this is the only way Israel can be safe, and strongly support Israel. If Palestinian women and children have to die to keep Israel safe, that is entirely the fault of the Palestinians, the Israelis are blameless, only protecting themselves from future brutal, unprovoked attacks.

Of course, a lot of American denounce killing Palestinian civilians, women and children, as genocide.

But we have no idea what the actual numbers are.

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