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Let gaza and part of west bank form a condominium with Jordan , the other "Palestine. " then it will be river to the sea. just like those chants for genocide of the Jews. Tlaib says "coexistence" ....she means an Arab majority state to replace Israel with presumably a few Jews like the deranged neuteri karta. She is transparent in her hypocrisy and hate.

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This would explain why so many Gazans are greeting the IDF as their liberators, eh?

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I hope the truly humane Palestinians can escape Gaza. But I don’t believe they are representative of the general population in Gaza. If a majority of Palestinians wanted peace then they would have their friends, families and “supporters” all of the world demonstrating to eliminate hamas and form a peaceful government. Just like USSR dissidents did decades ago to help topple the former Soviet Union. I believe you don’t see it because it is not what the majority of Palestinian people really want. They hate Israel’s existence more than they want peace, security and prosperity. Pro-Palestinians = ProHamas = destroy Israel and eventually the west

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Tragic how sick newscasters call this a conflict between Israel and Hamas!

Amanpour the biggest fool of all! THIS IS THE BATTLE OF SURVIVAL FOR ISRAEL.

It’s surrounding Israel!

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Interesting historical context. Summary of “from time immemorial” by Joan Peters.

The enemies of truth and of human rights have slammed this book as 'worhtless' simply because it exposes their lies against Israel and her people.

I therefore point out some of the facts in this book that are highlighted (anyone who denies these facts is a liar , whose agenda is another Holocaust of the Israeli people).

1. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., almost two thousand years before the rise of Islam.

2. Since 1272 B.C.E. the Jews have had a dominion over the land for at least 1,000 years as well as a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.

3. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 C.E. lasted no more than 22 years.

4. King David made the city of Jerusalem his capital, Mohammed had never been to Jerusalem.

5. For 3000 years, Jerusalem has been known to be the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. When the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capital and Arab leaders did not specifically come to visit there.

6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Tanach (Jewish Holy Scriptures) . Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Koran.

7. Jews pray facing Jerusalem wherever in the world they may be. Muslims pray facing Mecca (often with their backs toward Jerusalem).

8. In 1854, according to a report in the New York Tribune, Jews constituted two-thirds of the population of the holy city. (The source: A journalist on assignment to the Middle East that year for the Tribune. His name was Karl Marx. Yes, that Karl Marx.)

9. In 1867, Mark Twain took a tour of Palestine and described that land: "A desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds. It is a silent and mournful expanse. We never saw a human."

10. In 1882 census figures of the Ottoman Empire, it was recorded that in the entire land of Israel, there were only 141,000 Muslims, both Arab and non-Arab.

11. A travel guide to Palestine and Syria, published in 1906 by Karl Baedeker, estimated that the total population of Jerusalem was 60,000, of whom 7,000 were Muslims, 13,000 were Christians and 40,000 were Jews.

12. After Zionist Jews came, drained the swamps, and made the deserts blossom Arabs followed them. They came for jobs, for prosperity and for freedom. Arabs arrived in large numbers.

13. In 1922, during the illegal separation of Transjordan, Jews were forbidden to settle on 77% of the disputed territory, while Arab settlements went unrestricted by British.

14. Prior to the Second World War, Mojli Amin, a member of the Arab Defense Committee for Palestine, proposed the following idea "All the Arabs of Palestine will leave and be settled amongst the neighboring Arab countries. In exchange for this, all the Jews living in Arab countries will leave and come and live in Palestine."

15. Did you know that Saudi Arabia was not established until 1913? Lebanon was not established until 1920. Iraq did not exist as a nation until 1932 and Syria until 1941. The borders of Jordan were established in 1946 and those of Kuwait in 1961. Any of the aforementioned nations that say that Israel is only a recent arrival would have to deny their own right of existence. They did not exist as fully-fledged countries, but were all under the control of the Turks. Over 80% of the original British Mandate land was given to the Arabs without any form of population transfer.

16. In 1947, the Jewish state settled on 18% of the original British Mandate land. This was accepted gratefully. The Arabs rejected it with a vengeance and seven Arab states immediately declared war against Israel.

17. In 1948, the Arabs were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Most of them left in fear of being killed by their own Arab brothers as traitors.

18. Jewish citizens of Arab countries had been forced to flee from Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms.

19. The number of Arabs who left Israel in 1948 was 470,000 (this figure was later inflated after UN offered them free help). The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be the same.

20. From 1948 to 1967 Arabs made no attempt to create a Palestinian state. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated. Jews and Christians were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths.

21. Arabs began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people only in 1967, after Israel captured Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

22. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, Arab- Palestinians are the only refugee group in the world that have never been absorbed or integrated into their own peoples' lands. Jewish refugees from all over were completely absorbed into the land of Israel.

23. Arab refugees INTENTIONALLY were not absorbed or integrated by the rich Arab oil states that control 99.9 percent of the Middle East landmass. They are kept as virtual prisoners by the Arab power brokers with misplaced hatred for Jews and Western democracy.

24. There is only one Jewish state. There are 54 Muslim countries including 22 Arab nations.

25. The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel.

26. Pan-Arabism or the idea of an Arab Caliphate declares that all land that supposedly to belonged to Arabs, must be returned to Arabs.

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I am disgusted by neoracism and antisemitism. I am so grateful for the moments of sanity and humanity you are bringing to the public square.

provide to this discussion.

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Good job TFP, some semblance of balanced reporting. It is just sad to see so much hate in the comments especially when the top comment is so divisive. People like Kevin Durant just like attention and don't care how low they go to get it.

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Oh! I so want to believe there are enough Palestinians that have these thoughts in their hearts. I want to believe that they and the Jews could live alongside each other in friendship and respect. I do, I do want to believe... but, then the reality of what they have allowed in their name comes crushing in upon my reverie and I'm back in the real, and ugly world once again. It's not very nice here and maybe there is another over the horizon. Not now, though, not now.

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Yeah....ok..... must be running out of white phosphorous.....

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/middleeast/casualties-gazas-shifa-hospital-idf/index.html

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At this point it’s very difficult to believe that GAZA can ever be free of HAMAS. Iran is the main sponsor of terror. They will come with a different name, always backed by the SNAKE in TEHRAN. IT TAKES ONLY ONE MALIGNANT CELL TO SPREAD THE CANCER.

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Israel has to urgently seek to establish a well chosen group of young well prepared young goup of gaza palestinians to organize an adequate administration to prepare receiving a cleaned from HAMAS Gaza. This group would receive support and needede orientation of an International non political team.

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It would be great if the Useful Idiots in the West protesting Palestinian "genocide" would actually protest against Hamas and ask for actual freedom for Gazans.

Palestinian life is determined by their corrupt and Islamo-Fascist leaders.

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this is so powerful and revealing! thank you... it gives me such an understanding beyond what I know of this conflict

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They espouse hatred for the conditions they live with because of Hamas, but do they support the existence of the state of Israel.

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The Israeli error was compassion.

Don’t make the same mistake.

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No ceasefire. Full “de-Hamasification” of Gaza when done. Period.

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