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I am starting a splinter group because I found the rules of "Israel and Palestine Politics Discussion" to be somewhat restrictive.

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Israel has been rocked by an explosion of protests in recent weeks, with trade unions staging a general strike on September 2 and an estimated 750,000 Israelis taking to the streets on September 7 to demand a hostage deal with Hamas.

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They don't want the hostages back, they never did.

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“We are all culpable in the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” he tells viewers. “We are slaves to capitalism and the military industrial complex. Most of us are too apathetic to care. The protest I’m about to engage in is a call to our government to stop supplying Israel with the money and weapons it uses to imprison and murder innocent Palestinians, to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, and to support the ICC indictment of Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the Israeli government.”

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For the third time since Israel launched a war on Gaza for which it is currently on trial for genocide at the World Court, a person in the United States has set themself on fire to protest Israel's killing of more than 41,000 Palestinians and U.S. complicity in the slaughter.

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As Israel continues its mass attacks against Palestinians, which have killed tens of thousands, Britain’s Department for Business and Trade says “Our teams will be entering negotiating rooms as soon as possible, laser-focused on creating new opportunities for UK firms”.

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In the 1930s, the Zionist movement was committed to rescuing Jews fleeing persecution in Europe only if it meant their immigration to Palestine. The leader of the Zionist community in Palestine at the time, David Ben Gurion, was clear that Jewish Agency funds were not to be used to save Jews going somewhere other than Palestine.

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