To Palestinians, Gaza is a symbol of resistance. To Israel, Gaza is a template to pummel and isolate that resistance.
On June 19, Israeli combat helicopters fired missiles into the camp, ostensibly as part of an arrest operation that ended up killing five Palestinians, including a 15-year-old girl named Sadeel Naghniyeh.
Then in early July, in the worst attack on the West Bank since 2002, the Israeli armed forces terrorised the inhabitants of Jenin for two days and killed at least 12 people, including children. The massive aerial and ground assault involved helicopter gunships, missiles, drones, armoured vehicles, bulldozers and more than 1,000 Israeli soldiers.
That is what happens, it seems, when Palestinians keep rebuilding – and keep existing. Indeed, Al Jazeera quoted 56-year-old camp resident Ahmed Abu Hweileh on the takeaway from the bloody escapade: “The message to the world and the occupation is that this camp will keep on going. They tried to destroy it and it came back up.”
Israel’s recent comportment in Jenin – and particularly the sudden use of air strikes in the West Bank for the first time in years – has invited comparisons to the Israeli modus operandi in the Gaza Strip, another location that has come to symbolise Palestinian resistance.
Fuck off man, I’m done with stupid argument.
I really tried to be respectful, but at this point you’re just arguing in bad faith; you don’t really respond to my comments, I’m guessing you don’t read them all the way through at this point.
You parrot talking points which show me you’ve been fed misinformation and you didn’t question it at all.
You can disagree all you like, I support your right to hold all the wrong beliefs, but I also support my right to tell you to fuck off.
You type a lot of words but actually say very little. So yeah, I completely read all of your comments but it’s not like you actually made any real arguments apart from some appeal to moderation and some vague allusions about bullshit on all sides.