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You don't really think the CIA and Israeli Intelligence didn't know this was going to happen, do you? LOL. This was an event that was deliberately allowed to happen, because it causes another fear event that will make the population come together and love their governments again, while wanting more "safety" from the new enemy that we all love to hate. Ooh, how we hate those Hamas "terrorists." Just as with Ukraine, ignorant young boys will be desperate to get to Israel to fight those damned terrorists, while Raytheon is making out like a bandit, and surveillance goes through the roof, all with the consent of the governed. All the Muslim immigrants who side with the Palestinians who are now living in all over Europe and the US will become the "new enemy that needs to be surveilled and spied on" just as they were after 9/11, and Jewish and Christian society will be united in hatred of them rather than focusing on their real enemy, which is globalism. This kind of manipulation of the population is just as easy as pie.

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I deeply respect David's commentary on Russia - Ukraine, but he is not well informed on this issue. The idea that the Palestinians could have had a state any time they wished is so ridiculous that I don't know where to start. Netanyahu has literally said that he doesn't not support a Palestinian state and supports the settlement movement which is trying to "Judaise" - populate with Jews - the whole of the Palestinian West Bank which they call "Judea and Samaria." Palestinians are confined to small enclaves within the West Bank and do not even have freedom of movement between neighbouring cities. Meanwhile Israelis can move freely between the illegal settlements and the legal borders of Israel on Israeli only roads. Israel has constructed a system of apartheid far more brutal than the South African version, as many South Africans have said. And the conditions for Palestinians living under siege in Gaza, where 96% of the water is contaminated, are in many ways far worse.

Under such circumstances it is inevitable that some Palestinians will be willing to resort to desperate, violent and even massively counterproductive means to try to secure their freedom. One of the problems with one-sided condemnation of Hamas is that even from the perspective of concern, primarily, for the welfare of Israelis, it is completely useless as it fails to do anything to address to background conditions of massive injustice and oppression against the Palestinians, which pretty much guarantees that further acts of violence will happen again in the future.

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like a false flag event.... israeli military must be told to stand down

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