Thousands took to the streets across Israel Saturday night to call for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ouster and new elections, in demonstrations spanning from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to Haifa and Caesarea in the north and Be’er Sheva in the south.
At a demonstration in front of the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, Yosef Angel, bereaved father and grandfather of 17-year-old Ofir Angel, who was freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza, said “You stand at the head, and are responsible for the October 7 holocaust. You are trying to escape responsibility and look for someone else to blame, shame on you.”
Zionists have been occupying Palestine for 75 years. This is oppressor and oppressed. An internationally backed military super power and an indigenous armed resistance. This is asymmetrical.
They are not occupying Palestine. They have their own, internationally recognized state. Of course, they are illegally occupying certain areas but those are far smaller than “the entirety of Palestine”. Having said that, the occupation of undisputed territories must end.
Mandatory Palestine encompassed all the land Israel inhabits. That land was intended to be given to the Palestinians before Israel waged a campaign of terrorism against the British and used post-WW2 sympathies to gain it.
They are occupying Palestine.
No, they are not occupying Palestine. They are occupying undisputed territories, which is, indeed, against international law and I fully condemn it.
By the same logic, Slovakia is now occupying the land of Austro-Hungarian empire because that’s what was here some years ago.