Reply #8: My question is for you: Why do you see this as an anomoly [View All]

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instead of a logical outgrowth of the current situation?

Everything about the way this situation is structured: massive #s of refugees, 40+year occupation, tens of thousands of dunams stolen "just because," massive ghettoization in Gaza, refusing to accept free and fair election results, labeling Palestinians as "militants" and "terrorists," (the list could go on and on here, we all know that) teaches people in Israel that paletsinians are "less than."

When young people act out what they're taught, can you really blame them?

I know so many people in Gaza who have been abused and tortued by, not on the Shin Bet (for information or whatever) but by the IDF -- FOR FUN!

I've told you this before... my brother-in-law has cigarette burn scars on the back of his neck from when young soliders extinguished their butts on his neck, while he was cuffed.

How can a human do that for fun? They do it when they don't see other as human beings, but as things.