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by tsimionescu 812 days ago
The proximal cause of Gazans' poverty is Israeli oppression. The fact that this oppression comes in retaliation for old wars doesn't change the fact that it's not Jordan or Syria or Qatar not allowing anything in and out of Gaza.

> The data says they were obese before they started the war, giving the lie to the open air prison fallacy.

You brought that up in the context of the starvation to which Israel is currently subjecting them. Neither I, nor others, claimed Gaza was starving before the current genocide. The fact that it's an open air prison is related to the way Israel, and to some extent Egypt, are controlling access into and out of Gaza, not to obesity.

> It proves your claims about an open air prison are false. No reasonable person would describe that as a prison.

And yet every UN rapporteur that has investigated has reached the same conclusion. Almost as if they know some reality that you don't.

> You didn’t write that Egypt is oppressing gaza.

Yes, Egypt is also oppressing Gaza. That's what complicit means.

> You also didn’t take back your spurious claim that it was racist (?) to point out that Gazans hate Jews as evidenced by their overwhelming support for the massacre.

You are the one who claimed two million+ people are each and every one antisemitic. And also the one who seems not to know what it's called when you smear a whole ethnic/cultural group like this.

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> You are the one who claimed two million+ people are each and every one antisemitic

No, according to polls only 70% support the brutal murder of Israelis, as previously discussed.