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Good God almighty you're an idiot. Have fun fucking the corpse of that strawman you continue to fearlessly attack even after learning that it is, indeed, a man of straw.

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Palestine had substantial self-governance in the Ottoman empire. Before the British took over, they had <em>already</em> promised the land to the Jews (Balfour declaration was 1917). As a result, Jewish immigration, which had been a very slow trickle from the start of the Zionist movement in the late 19th Century, greatly accelerated under British control. On a semantic point, I suppose you could say it wasn't "their country", but it was a territory where they had enjoyed autonomy, and where after the 1947-8 conflicts hundreds of thousands of people who could trace their occupancy of the land for centuries and millenia were displaced from their homes, so "their country" better describes the reality of that history than "not an independent entity".

As to partition, I'm sorry but that's also a vast oversimplification. Menachem Begin, for example, said that he only accepted the partition plan because it would provide a platform from which to take the rest of the territory. Neither side accepted partition as a final status, the Palestinians rejected it as an initial status because it was taking away from what they already had, the Jewish Agency accepted it because it was giving them something they did not have.

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Have you even fucking heard of the Balfour Declaration, or are you just incapable of comprehension? Or is it just that you live in a fantasy world entirely detached from reality? I could certainly believe the latter, because that's the only place where your last paragraph could have come from.

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A plague of missiles.

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Pretty sure they understand the fallout radius of their bombs.

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Not to go all linguistic on you, but the intent is to terrorize, so on a literal basis it's accurate.

It's the implication that in a piece of land with a population density of around 10,000 people per square mile, it's possible to distinguish between "terror sites" and "apartment buildings home to dozens of civilian families" that's more obscene.

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So we should ignore the obvious phallic imagery?

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What's all this fighting over some Gaza Stripper's? You'd think the Secret Service was involved or something.

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