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In reply to the discussion: Hamas leader in Gaza declares intifada as deadly attacks continue [View all]nyabingi
(1,145 posts)17. Hmm, this sounds eerily similar
to white southerners blaming Africans selling Africans for the Transatlantic Slave Trade. We Black Americans are ultimately responsible for our own enslavement and mistreatment over these last few centuries.
I'm sure the people of Gaza would like the opportunity to carry out trade with other countries and be able to provide goods and services for the population like most countries do, but they aren't really presiding over a country now are they? Prisoners like El Chapo have to dig elaborate tunnels to escape from maximum security prisons, and Gazans are forced to do the same in order to survive.
Gaza is a large prison so tunnels make sense.
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Hamas leader in Gaza declares intifada as deadly attacks continue [View all]
muriel_volestrangler
Oct 2015
OP
they should throw rocks at their billionaire leaders who gouge them and sell their land
wordpix
Oct 2015
#4
there are! And they made their money gouging people at the tunnels, selling Palest. land,
wordpix
Oct 2015
#11
What do you think would happen if the Israelis just let the Palestinians throw
JDPriestly
Oct 2015
#18
My question is what do you think would happen if the Israelis just let the Palestinians
JDPriestly
Oct 2015
#23
It would seem that he/she is an apologist for those that seek the destruction of Israel. eom.
GGJohn
Oct 2015
#68
I think that the stone-throwing would escalate into more serious violence that
JDPriestly
Oct 2015
#47