“The ability to commit violence” is not “a monopoly on violence.” As murderous as Hamas is, it kills far fewer Palestinians in Gaza each year than does the Israeli state, which can bomb, shell, and shoot Gazans with impunity.
The facticity of the observation that Gaza is not and never has been a state does not change because you think it’s unfair to point out its primary architect—the occupying power in Gaza—is the Israeli state.
Boo hoo. Cheese with your whine. Tiny violin. Etc.
I can’t tell if you genuinely don’t understand or if you’re just being obtuse for rhetorical value, but there’s a substantive difference between interstate conflict and the sort of “guards in literal guard towers shooting at prisoners in a concentration camp” that we see in Gaza.
There are material differences and political differences, which I’m happy to explain to you.
The one that doesn't learn, not even when confronted with international law, international human right organizations, or even dictionary definitions is you Tzafrif.
You are justifying a genocidal regime, which is the most bankrupt stance anyone can take.
What do you have to say about the mass protests outside Netanyahu's house, asking him to accept the cease fire?
Rich now, as we speak, Israel is ensuring more hostages will be killed, not by Hamas but by their own mass bombing of Rafah. The Netanyahu regime has zero interest in bringing the hostages home alive. Yet YOU endorse said regime.
Did the cat got your tongue, you yellow coward? What do you have to say abut the thousands of Israelis demanding that Netayahu accepts the cease fire agreement, to which Hamas has already agreed, that would bring the surviving hostages back home?
Do you think that the "right" answer to the hostage's families plight is to beat them up with police batons?
Why is that a condition? If you want to go from country A to country B, you need country B's permission. There are many cases where this permission is granted semi-automatically, and thus you tend to ignore it.
When country A and country B don't like each other, it's a problem. Try to see what it take for Indians to visit Pakistan and vice versa.
The claim isn’t “Gazans lack permission to travel to Israel.” The fact is that Gazans cannot leave Gaza at all. They cannot travel by air because the IDF long ago destroyed the only airport in Gaza and controls Gaza’s airspace. They cannot travel by sea because the IDF patrols and has mined the coast, periodically murdering Palestinian fishers who stray too far from land. They cannot travel by land because the Israeli state has forbidden it and uses its control of Gaza’s borders to periodically murder any Palestinians who merely get close to the border.
Asking “isn’t this just like getting country b’s permission” is so fucking asinine. There’s no comparable situation in which the citizens of one country have to ask a second country for permission to travel to a third. Just vile shit that would be trivially obvious to you if you thought about it for even a moment.
(Past tense. Pre Oct 2023)
They could travel by land though Egypt. Some of them. Why not more? Because of their government that failed to negotiate it.
You can’t weasel out of this by noting that the Egyptian military dictatorship cooperates with the Israeli state to maintain the occupation and blockade. It doesn’t somehow make it ok if you’re getting help from a vile military dictatorship.
Well, That's indeed Netanyahu's policy (unlike Olmert, the PM in 2006-2008 that was against Hamas and was working on a peace agreement with Abu Mazen).
Why do you think "Egypt helps Israel"? Egypt is an independent country with its own interests that only partially align with those of Israel. It kept the border closed because it is its own interest.
So fucking what? Your whole argument boils down to “waaah people criticize Israel more than Egypt so reality isn’t happening waaah”
Israel has maintained Gaza as a concentration camp in which Palestinians have been trapped for decades. That Sidi colludes with that atrocity or Biden arms the forces committing that atrocity doesn’t make it any less atrocious.