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There's so much factually incorrect in your response, but I understand that once you've decided to look at the situation through a lens you're familiar with - even though it's completely inappropriate for the situation - you're not going to be easily persuaded to shift your position.

You are fundamentally mistaken regarding how we as a whole feel about the Palestinians, and how we treat the Palestinians, even though you're right about certain elements of our society. Elements that the rest of us don't support or agree with, and that we ourselves consider undesirable (but that's a different, complicated story for another time).

Your claim about our use of the term "human shields" is absurd, and it shows that you do not understand how Hamas views and treats the Palestinian people. Having lived with Palestinians, I can tell you that they are and have been victims of some of the worst human rights abuses imaginable, directly at the hands of the Iranian proxies that have been running their show for many decades. Hamas's goal is to maximize Palestinian casualties for media points, and it's sadly a very effective strategy.

Another fundamental mistake you're making is historical: the only "occupation" that actual Palestinians are concerned with is the existance of the state of Israel. They've been fully in control of Gaza for two decades (and mostly in control of the West Bank), and almost every ounce of the aid given to Gaza has gone towards our destruction, rather than improving their own lives. As for the brainwashing? Tell me you haven't seen any of the television they've grown up with without telling me you haven't seen any of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4TVOXHt_PA

Tell me you don't think raising children to be martyrs isn't a form of child abuse.

The claim of "daily humiliations and mistreatments" that you're repeating is a bald-faced lie straight out of Hamas' PR playbook. You literally have no idea what you're talking about. The worst thing to happen to the Palestinians, period, is that they were chosen to be used by the Arab League as pawns in a proxy war against Israel and, sadly and ironically, the only people in the entire region who have a vested interest in a peaceful conclusion to their story are Israelis.

Believe whatever you want to believe. We'll continue to do our best to protect ourselves and to do what's right.

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Adam Fisher / fisher king (@therightstuff)
Adam Fisher / fisher king (@therightstuff)

Written by Adam Fisher / fisher king (@therightstuff)

Software developer and writer of words, currently producing a graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare's Sonnets! See http://therightstuff.bio.link for details.

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