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Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Israel has a right to defend itself, and judging its security decisions from a distance is "very difficult", as Israel's government vows to cut off food and water to the blockaded Gaza Strip.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

A bunch of rich kids partying on land pissing distance from the walls erected to lock in 2 million Palestinians, which was stolen from those Palestinians grandparents, are most definitely the fucken oppressors here mate.

Especially when you throw in compulsory military service

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It wasn't stolen from them, what is currently Israel was British territory prior to ww2.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Ilovethebomb @0ddysseus

And Britain never stole anything from anyone, right?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

If you go back far enough with that line of reasoning, you end up back at Jewish territory anyway.

So really, they just gave it back to the original owners.

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