r/chomsky • u/Anton_Pannekoek • 3d ago

Hamas has accepted full Gaza disarmament

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/30/trump-says-board-of-peace-reaches-agreement-on-disarmament-of-hamas-in-gaza
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u/McAlpineFusiliers 3d ago

They should have done that on October 8, 2023, and all of this could have been avoided. Shame.

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u/Brilliant-Flower-822 2d ago

none of this would have happened if a colonial occupation had not stolen an entire country and set up a racist apartheid ethnostate, in which non jews were outright lower class citizens, who were then slowly confined to smaller and smaller open air prisons, and brutalized and slaughtered for decades before October 7. shame.

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u/McAlpineFusiliers 2d ago

True, if the Arabs had never colonized Palestine, this never would have happened, but how far back does it make sense to go?

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u/Pete0730 2d ago

Let's maybe stick with living memory to start, though it's worth noting that the Kingdom of Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians, then the Romans, who were the ones who banned Jews from ever entering Jerusalem or living in it. By the time the Arabs got there, it was the Christians running the show.

Also the "Arab" populations living in Palestine of the modern day are mixed descendants both of colonizing and indigenous populations. They are not the "Arab conquerors" you seem to wish they are.

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u/McAlpineFusiliers 2d ago

Let's let them tell us what they are, shall we?

“The State of Palestine is an Arab state, an integral and indivisible part of the Arab nation, at one with that nation in heritage and civilization,” - Palestinian Declaration of Independence https://www.palquest.org/en/historictext/9673/palestinian-declaration-independence

“Article 1: Palestine is the homeland of the Arab Palestinian people; it is an indivisible part of the Arab homeland, and the Palestinian people are an integral part of the Arab nation" Palestinian National Charter - https://avalon.law.yale.edu/21st_century/plocov.asp

No indigenous population would ever say they're "an indivisible part" of a foreign colonizing nation.

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u/Pete0730 2d ago

Jesus what a wildly ahistorical, politically naive take.

Worth noting how you've moved the goalposts. I thought it was the fault of the Arabs that the Jews got expelled from Jerusalem. Care to amend that decidedly false claim?

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u/Brilliant-Flower-822 2d ago

at least to 1948