Why did Hamas kill 1,300 and wound 3,300 Israelis on October 7th? Hamas said it was motivated to launch the attack because of long-term anger over Israeli treatment of Palestinians, expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and recent violent encounters at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque (cbsnews.com).
Israel’s deliberate policies of police brutality, racism, and abuses against Palestinians has been going on since 1947. The birth of Israel led to a major displacement of the Arab population (750,000), who either were driven out by Zionist military forces, by the Israeli army or fled for fear of violence from these forces.
In 1950, Israel passed a law that authorized the state to seize land and property belonging to “absentee owners”, namely Palestinians who became refuges and whom Israel still won’t allow to return to reoccupy their properties.
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As an Indigenous person, it’s ridiculous that people recognize “genocide” ONLY when physical violence occurs. Are people really that dumb, uneducated, and ignorant?
The world is getting a front row seat on what colonization and genocide does to people, and those who benefited from it whether socially or financially.
As long as greed exists, there will never be equality nor justice.