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Are you obsessed with Israel or something? This isn't the first time I've seen your comments about Israel, and your submission history is just full of this topic.

Israel isn't "bombing Palestinies for decades". They're fighting back when Palestinians attack them (why did you gloss over Palestinians bombing Israel?), then there's quiet for a while, and then more fighting.

The Israeli/Palestinian relationship is very complicated with enormous history, and claims by both sides. Just because you can't distinguish it from Russia/Ukraine doesn't mean others can't.

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1) Accusation of obsession with Israel - check 2) Classic both siding with a cute "we're just defending" and leaving out the constant colonisation and ethnic cleansing campaigns & apartheid[0] - check 3) "it's complicated" - check (it's not remotely complicated, plain old settler colonialism)

The 1990s called, they want their hasbara back.

[0] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apart...

It's actually not plain old settler colonialism because Jewish people are also the "indigenous" inhabitants of those lands - but instead of sharing them with the non-Jewish indigenous inhabitants (now called the "Palestinians") the militant Zionists have declared a "Jewish State" where they systematically discriminate against Palestinians (e.g. no right of return for non-Jews & hardly any building permits for non-Jews in the West Bank).

Regarding bombings & war crimes, they have indeed been done by both sides. The crimes of Palestinian terrorists are obvious, but there is widespread denial & attempted justification of the IDF's crimes, hence the topic generates a lot of writing & debate. Examples of IDF crimes are the bombing of houses with many children in assassination missions (these are obviously not preceded by warning phone-calls) [0], and the shooting of Palestinian protestors at the Gaza fence who do not pose a risk to the lives of IDF soldiers.[1] The data ([2]) also speaks for itself.

[0]: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/gaza-israel-wiping-entir...

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/gaza-protests-palestine-...

[2]: https://statistics.btselem.org/en/all-fatalities/by-date-of-...

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