Interesting and tragic events unfolding in Israel and the Gaza Strip.
A long complex history of mutual ethnic hatred fed by made-up religious nonsense and age-old grievances. Taking sides and absolute one-sided positions like a footy team is what the religious extremists on both sides want and just continues the so-called justification of the butchery of the innocent on both sides to get back at the other. As the old saying goes an eye for an eye and we all go blind.
Meanwhile, no surprise both sides' imaginary friend in the sky is nowhere to be seen to stop the killing in "his" name in this so-called "holy land" 
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Yep. innocent kids and humans slaughtered.
All good at least the loser in nsw allows you to protest in support for Palestine (or against Israel)
Wonder if innocent Russians were allowed the same privilege 
Anyway War number 2 under old mate Biden. Number 3 not far away.
Actually, they were albeit they were on a smaller scale & often linked to the anti-vax crowd.
https://twitter.com/runwifi1/status/1574308037778493440
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1627415505932849152
My understanding is that the common Palestinian/Israeli don't hate each other so much and are happy to live together.
It's the extremists that are driving this.
I'm actually wondering if Israel let Hamas attack so they could bomb the crap out of them.
There's no conspiracy. The Hamas terrorist attack occurred early morning on a Jewish holiday & caught Israel by surprise as it was far larger in number and scale, tactically different by targeting civilian homes as well as the youth festival, and unusually coordinated as barbaric and evil as it was (Israel has owned the Arabs in most battles past due to the latter's shambolic plans and tactics). Having said that, the religious extremists do use the other side's acts of violence and killing as justification for their own extremist desires. One tweet from a certain cooker here in Oz who had once fought with the IDF said that the Hamas terrorist attack meant "This is Israel’s chance to finally finish the job". On the other side at Palestinian protests in Sydney there were some chanting "Gas the Jews". It is all just pure evil ethnic hatred fueled by religion.
Ethnic cousins produce the worst lasting hatred. It's like Northern Ireland of the past and the Balkans put together and on steroids. The reaction of the extremists to the 1993 Oslo peace accord said it all. An Israeli religious extremist claiming he was acting on the "orders of God" assassinated PM Yitzhak Rabin for signing the deal, while Hamas pretty much began committing wholesale terrorist acts in opposition to the accord. Both set of extremists don't want peace. These psychos' sole goal is to eliminate the other side instead. The price paid is the lives of the innocent while nothing really changes. So much for there being a "god"
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