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Crip Dyke's avatar

You know, I consider myself appalling ignorant of what's going on in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. I know extremely little about Palestinian history. And yet just the number "1.7 million" hits me and I'm like, "that's nearly equal to all the Palestinians in Gaza. If there were that large a concentration of the Palestinian diaspora in one country, SURELY I would have heard of it before now."

But Faulkner, working for FOX, has no capacity for introspection. No ability to stop and ask of herself, "Wait, is this true? What would that mean if it were true? Would it conflict with other things I have previously held to be true?"

It's BEYOND possible that there are concentrations of ethnic Palestinians living in places I would guess. There's a big Japanese population in Brazil, about 20 times the population in Peru, which I only knew about because of the ethnic Japanese past-president of Peru Alberto Fujimori.

But when someone says that 1.7Million people are all Palestinians -- a not large group to begin with -- and are being expelled from a muslim country, that sure would cause me pause.

And again, it's hard to find people more ignorant of Palestinian history and migration than me.

But whatever, FOX. You do you -- and get sued for $787M at a time, I guess.

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ResistanceFictionistaBlondeIQ's avatar

Call Pakistan! Tell them it's Karen on the phone and I demand to speak to the manager of Pakistan!

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