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Let’s Talk About it                                                          The Mensaist©




                                         GAZA: 11 DAYS OF TERROR!





                             rom May 9th                                       Israel must operate due to
                             through May       First of all, shall I           its supremacist Zionist
                             20th 2021, the reiterate that all living          ideology, generally result
                             Gaza strip was beings, all nations on this        in violence. Israel's cruel
                             under assault     planet have the right to        behavior, its occupation of
                             by the state of   self defense, self              Palestine and its constant
                             Israel. As        determination and self          brutalization and
               usual, during their latest      preservation? The Jewish        oppression of Palestinians
               offensive on Gaza, the          state has no special rights     are in last resort the root
               Jewish state has killed a       over the Palestinians, or       cause of all this.
               disproportionate amount         any other nation on earth
               of civilians including          to defend itself, that
               many children, while even doesn't apply to others.
               targeting the press by          Palestine, as much as
               bombing the AP building         Israel, has this
               in Gaza. With the blessing      unalienable right.
               of the Americans and the
               West, and despite the           Secondly, the last
               whinings of other world         outbreak of violence in the
               actors, Israel has once         Middle East between             Picture from Al Jazeera’s video, is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
               again demonstrated to the Israel and Palestine was              Before 1948 and becoming
               whole world that it is          caused by the efforts of        a state, Israel was first and
               indeed a brutal colonial        Israel to evict Palestinian     foremost a project, a
               state that will never stop      families from the Sheikh        Zionist one, aiming at
               brutalizing Palestine.          Jarrah neighborhood of          securing Palestine as a
                                               Jerusalem to move in            homeland for the Jewish
               The Jewish state claimed        Jewish settlers and the         people. Since Palestine
               incessantly in the media        entrance in Al Aqsa             was inhabited by Arabs, it
               that it had launched its        mosque by Israeli security      was from the beginning a
               offensive on Gaza because       forces to brutalized            project of dispossession, it
               of rockets fired from Gaza      worshippers who were            was all about giving to
               by Hamas. Listening to          gathered inside. These two      what was then a landless
               prime minister Netanyahu major events led to the                people, an inhabited land.
               and other Israeli officials     bloody escalation that we       Which thanks to British
               it was as if Israel was         saw.                            imperialism was done,
               merely defending itself,                                        with force. Force that is
               with the mantra of "Israel      Egregious systems like          still being used today all
               right to self defense" being colonization and                   over Palestine against the
               repeated over and over to       apartheid, the very             Palestinian people in all
               shape the narrative.            systems under which             occupied territories.
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