A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
The genocide is still ongoing and many things are still developing in Palestine, but we are removing the limitation on only posting things related to the operation Flood of Al-Aqsa to this thread, you can now freely post over Lemmygrad again.
Please don't stop talking about Palestine.
Due to popular demand, please keep all posts about the operation to this megathread, sitewide.
Going into Gaza seems to be the only way forward from this bombing campaign and if they want to regain some popularity with their settlers but if they do, it will end with their loss. The two times the occupier went into Gaza they got driven out and suffered huge losses. Bibi's government can't take another loss, especially after the Flood was so catastrophic for him.
What resources and abilities to defend do the Palestinians have? I understand that with Hamas and some other groups they have some sort of defence force, but are the regular Palestinians that ready to defend themselves?
It’s not that every regular Palestinian would have a weapon (I doubt they have the resources or the desire to arm civilians), it’s that every moving shape in the darkness or sound you hear could be a resistance fighter ready to destroy you, which leads you to being very jumpy and thus ineffective in combat. Also having to deal with civilians throwing rocks at you is distracting as well.
Well that and also Palestinians are both unwilling and unable to leave if the IOF decides to go in. Where would they go in case of an invasion? They can't leave Gaza either way.