There were no Jews in Gaza. They were forcibly removed by the Israeli government, with much pain and financial loss.
When they left, the commercial and industrial infrastructure that they had built there was quickly destroyed by Hamas.
NOTHING has prevented Hamas from taking the tens of billions of dollars in aid that it has received and using it to make Gaza a replica of, say, Singapore or Hong Kong. But they used that money to fund a war machine, to build weapons, and to build an underground infrastructure with no purpose other than to facilitate a campaign of destruction on its neighbor.
When the war started, Hamas could have sheltered virtually all of its civilian population in the fucking tunnels, but declined to do so. Indeed, it employed very severe measures to maximize civilian deaths and casualties, seeking to exploit the perverse fact that its enemies valued "Palestinian" lives much more than they did.
The facts on the ground are not complicated. Believing "Palestinian" propaganda, as the OP does, is simply pathetic.
DGS49: "There were no Jews in Gaza. They were forcibly removed by the Israeli government, with much pain and financial loss."
Although I haven't stated there were Jewish people in Gaza after 2005, yes, due only to international pressure, the entity ordered the removal of its "settlers"/squatters from Gaza in 2005.
DGS49: "When they left, the commercial and industrial infrastructure that they had built there was quickly destroyed by Hamas."
In reality, the entity's military dynamited residential neighborhoods and general infrastructure out of spite in September of 2005.
"In the weeks that followed [the removal of the squatters], Israeli forces demolished residential buildings..."
Israel’s disengagement from Gaza (2005) | Withdrawal, Map, Settlements, & Hamas | Britannica (see the final sentence of the section titled "Implementation."
DGS49: "NOTHING has prevented Hamas from taking the tens of billions of dollars in aid that it has received and using it to make Gaza a replica of, say, Singapore or Hong Kong. But they used that money to fund a war machine, to build weapons, and to build an underground infrastructure with no purpose other than to facilitate a campaign of destruction on its neighbor."
Irrespective of how much money the Israeli-created Hamas has taken in
For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces the entity prohibits building materials from entering the Gaza Strip.
Israel Bans 5765 Types of Construction Materials from Getting into Gaza - Palestine Chronicle
So, it is challenging to imagine how Gazans could build much of anything, much less a new Singapore or Hong Kong, in light of their imposed inability to import such things as concrete and rebar. To be sure, with remote-controlled machine guns ringing the Gaza Strip, the entity intends for it to be an open-air concentration camp, not a new Singapore or Hong Kong. Zionists wish to keep Gazans and Palestinians, more broadly, impoverished, thereby making it easier to genocide them out of existence.
Of course, Gazans have been able to smuggle some building materials into Gaza. However, it would only be possible to smuggle in the enormous amount of materials requisite to build something approximating a city like Singapore or Hong Kong. In addition, if Gazans were able to initiate such a project, the entity would likely quickly bomb it out of existence. The entity's point is to genocide Gazans, not allow them to flourish.
The Jaguar's role in a border patrol and possibly anti-riot capacity will likely continue to receive scrutiny as public security services across the world explore deploying unmanned systems with offensive capabilities.
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DGS49: "When the war started, Hamas could have sheltered virtually all of its civilian population
in the fucking tunnelsbut declined to do so. Indeed, it employed very severe measures to maximize civilian deaths and casualties, seeking to exploit the perverse fact that its enemies valued "Palestinian" lives much more than they did."
Although there are an estimated 300 miles of tunnels beneath Gaza, it would have been and remains infeasible to shelter more than one million impoverished people within that tunnel network. The technical issue of dealing with the daily production of vast amounts of dangerous urine and fecal matter alone renders such a notion folly. It is also the case that a million people residing in the said tunnels would, under the best of unattainable circumstances, severely hamper Hamas's ability to wage guerrilla warfare against a far better-equipped opposition.
Therefore, the assertion that Hamas somehow enjoyed or enjoys the option of sheltering Gazans writ large in tunnels is not only inaccurate; it is an instance of victim-blaming. Palestinians did not ask for or otherwise cause their being colonized any more than did Turtle Island's Indigenous peoples. It is the immutable inclination of colonized people to fight back.
Additionally, the responsive violence of the colonized, in this case, the non-Jewish people, in what is at least nominally understood to be Palestine, must be juxtaposed with the initiating violence of their Zionist colonizers. The violence carried out by Hamas is horrible and unfortunate, but the violence employed by the entity toward the maintenance of the status quo came first. And it is the day-to-day realities of the status quo, even during times of "peace," that are also designed to kill Palestinians.
DGS49: "The facts on the ground are not complicated. Believing 'Palestinian' propaganda, as the OP does, is simply pathetic."
Indeed, the facts on the ground are simple. The impasse is a classic case of fascistic settler-colonialism, just as it unfolded in the "U.S.," "Australia," "Canada," "French Algeria," "Rhodesia," and "Apartheid South Africa." The settler-colonial projects in "French Algeria," "Rhodesia," and "Apartheid South Africa" show that the social pathology known as "settler-colonialism" can be a relatively temporary situation. The dispute between the river and the sea is not a fundamentally religious impasse. And, although the situation has worsened of late, some signposts indicate the entity's demise.
As for DGS49's final comment, Marxists ally themselves with Palestinians because the same forces of reaction that are killing Palestinians are also subjugating workers in the West. It's all linked to imperialism, and imperialism is beginning to visit U.S. workers like a boomerang.
From Furegeon, Missouri, to Standing Rock to Flint, Michigan, to East Palestine, Ohio, from George Floyd to Eric Garner, from the loss of reproductive rights to the Supreme Court's possible overturning of same-sex marriage, disempowered people and workers generally are under assault by a dying and, therefore, vicious system. To push back on workers by enforcing that viciousness, Cop Cities are springing up across the U.S., sixty-nine thus far. Complete with Israeli-trained cops that were trained in the West Bank, the purpose of Cop Cities is to further the criminalization of persecuted people and expand the already-bloated carceral system. The capitalist system is imploding, and workers, including disenfranchised workers, are demanding change just like Palestinians are demanding the exact change.
Of course, DGS49 does not agree with any of that. Still, that sense of solidarity, rather than any "Palestinian propaganda," motivates the left concerning non-Jewish people in the occupied areas between the river and the sea.
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