The Palestinian people are, by and large, peaceful. They are suffering egregious
harm and, while they're angry, they aren't the ones perpetrating this
violence. The people carrying this out, again the (most recent?) attack were
done by hardcore Hamas fighters, people who've bought into the Muslim
Brotherhood's very strict interpretation of Islam; people who have taken an oath
to a charter that calls for the destruction of Israel. This isn't what the
Palestinian people are doing, but once again it's the Palestinian people that
are paying the heaviest price - those children who are dying in Gaza today
because Israeli pilots flying American airplanes dropping American bombs are
slaughtering them by the hundreds. Those are innocents. They have nothing to do
with this but they're the ones paying the price. The Hamas fighters - they're
underground in a bunker, living, waiting for the moment that the Israeli army
crosses into Gaza so that they can rise up from a tunnel behind them and kill
them, slaughter them like lambs - that's what Hamas is waiting for but not the
Palestinian people. They don't want this, they didn't ask for this. All they
want to do is live in their own land. They didn't ask to be confined in an open
air concentration camp - some people call it an open air prison but it's not a
prison. A prison is where you put convicts, people who've committed crimes. The
Palestinia people are innocent, they haven't committed any crimes. Their only
crime, apparently, in the eyes of the Israelis is to have been born. That is not
a crime. They deserve to live normal lives. They don't deserve to be cooped
up. They deserve the right of return. They should be allowed to go back to the
land, the villages where their parents, their grandparents lived before they
were forcefully evicted by the Israelis in 1948. That's what should be
happening, but it's not happening and now innocent Israelis are paying the
price, but again, let's put it this way - I don't believe any civilian should be
killed. It's a war crime - shouldn't happen. Tired of talking about innocent
Israelis. Let me give you an example - in the town of Sderot, north of Gaza, the
Hamas fighters came in and they perpetrated crimes; they kicked down the doors
and they killed the Israeli civilians - unarmed civilians who lived there and
people go "Well, these innocent Israelis". Well, let me remind people that in
2014, these same innocent Israeli citizens were sitting up on a hill outside of
Sderot while the Israeli airforce bombed Gaza, killing hundreds of innocent
Palestinians and as the Israeli airforce bombed them, as the explosions went
off, these people were eating a barbecue and cheering and when asked about this
by the media, they said the Palestinians aren't humans, they're animals; they
deserve everything they're getting. There's nothing innocent that. Those
citizens of Sderot and those people who live around Gaza know damn well what's
going on, just like the Germans that lived next to the concentration camps that
were disposing of Jewish bodies in crematoriums and they'd wipe off falling ash
from their shoulder and march on as if nothing happened. These people allowed
this open air concentration camp to exist for decades, they cheered as the
Israeli airforce dropped bombs on those people, those humans that lived just a
few miles away from them, cheering while they were slaughtered and you want me
to say they're innocent? Not on your life, they shouldn't have been killed -
they're civilians, their death is a crime and hopefully there'll be justice for
this, but there's nothing innocent about them
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And I'm sorry it took the deaths of so many Israeli citizens, again, I'm not
going to use the word innocent except children, but if you lived in Israel as an
adult and you've tolerated the government that continues to perpetrate these
ongoing crimes against the Palestinians; if you haven't spent your every waking
moment demonstrating in the street saying "Not my Israel, not my government, not
me", then you're not innocent - shouldn't have been killed but you're not
innocent. Israel is not the innocent party here, Israel is not the victim,
Israel is the victimizer and they've been victimizing the Palestinian people for
decades but we pretend it's not happening. It's happening Cynthia. Why now?
When's a good time for people to stand up and defend their rights? When is the
right time to do it? It's not about convenience to the West, it's about people
unable, unwilling to continue to be treated in this fashion and it's not the
Palestinian people that did this, but it's Hamas feeding off the anger, feeding
off the righteous outrage against Israel for what they do every day. Israel
empower, Israel created Hamas, Israel empowered Hamas and now Israel is paying
the price for its mistakes.
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