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AloeVera

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2. It has no right to starve people either, or bomb civilian tents, homes and schools etc
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 04:23 PM
Jun 6

But it has the "might" and doesn't hesitate to use it against innocents. A nation that defies the UN, the ICC/ICJ etc and now even some Western governments in its eagerness to further starve and terrorize the people of Gaza in order to aid it in its plan of ethnic cleansing, is not a nation that is going to worry about any "rights".

Israel uses the concept of "rights" both selectively to apply only to itself and as a cudgel that everyone else must agree to - or be called an "anti-semite". So Israel has the "right to exist" (but not Palestine) and "right to defend itself" (but not Palestinians under occupation), right to its ancestral homeland" (but not Palestinians) "right to self-determination" (but not Palestinian Citizens of Israel).

Unsaid but amply demonstrated is Israel's "right" to kill and starve Palestinians and expel them from their native lands. Because the Land of Israel/Greater Israel...God gave it... and apparently God sent the U.S. to make it happen.


Edited to add:
So I am very worried for the flotilla. Israel has already said they will not be allowed to land. So it's going to do whatever it wants, as always - no one has stopped it yet. It's frightening.


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