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Thread #172755   Message #4190859
Posted By: Thompson
20-Oct-23 - 05:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hamas attacks Israel
Subject: RE: BS: Hamas attacks Israel
Again, it's a land grab.
Israel's behaviour is uncannily similar to that of the English in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries (the most famous example being Cromwell, who gave well-off Irish landowners the stark choice "To Hell or to Connacht" - in other words, be killed or go to the poorest land).
Israel is successively clearing Palestinians from their land and "planting" it (as used to be said in Ireland) with Israelis. Today, apart from the continued bombing of Gaza, 27 people were killed in the West Bank. Local people on TV said "settlers" nearby continually stone people picking their olives or farming; today Israeli forces came in and killed.
It's kind of astonishing to see western governments, including that of America which historically sheltered so many refugees, backing the Plantation of Palestine.