Hello all,
A palestinian christian here, who had a very short stint of interest in Islam, that was short due in part to materials from CEMB.
The picture portrayed in the west about the conflict, the situation in Iraq, and in Syria is a very skewed and flawed one, example in the following video.
ABC Manipulates Truth to Fit Pro-Israel Bias | Weapons of Mass Distraction on youtube (I can't post links)
1st of all, the initial resistance (falsely called terror) during the 60s and the 70s was mostly secular , fatah (Yassir Arafat's organization) and the PFLP (George Habash) were totally secular, and mostly marxist, many high ranking people there were christians (George Habash, Wadih haddad, Nayef hawatmeh, Layla khaled the planes abducting girl was also christian I think) Hamas was supported by Israel to become an opposition to these organizations, the resistance was supported by great liberal/marxist novelist/poets/scholars such as mahmoud darkwish, Edward Said and Ghassan Kanafany, the same like Ossama Bin Laden was groomed and funded by the US to fight the soviets in Afghanistan.
The people hear of the conflict is as if it's war between 2 nations, nothing could be further from the truth.
In 1967 Israel occupied the west bank from Jordan and Ghaza (which was an orphan area populated by refugees), ever since Israel has been eating slowly the land from the people who have already been traumatized in 1948 and deported from their homes, a documentary (one of hundreds) that describes the life of Palestinians in the west bank could be found here.
( Google life in occupied palestine in films for action) (Again I can't post links)
Israel have repeatedly killed Palestinians many of them children on daily basis (I'm not talking about "war" times), the investigations are usually closed without any charges or with a slap on the wrist. Before these 3 youths were kidnapped, tens of palestinians were killed only in 2014, many of them children on their way to/from school.
Ghaza is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, 7 years under siege (with the cooperation of the Egyptian government because of the peace treaty with Israel), that the fact her people are still alive and able to provide any resemblance of struggle is amazing, against the most powerful air force outside of the US, and the strongest army by far in the whole middle east.
The sad truth is that Islamic youth have been indoctrinated by religion to be used as tools, and the impossible situation in Palestine is fertile ground for it, I know this because I ,as a christian, have suffered Muslim bigotry and violence, and I know exactly how these people are being moved and to who's bidding, I also know that things haven't always been this way, and there's a guiding hand that props up the new enemy of the state, they moved for Nazi to Communist to Islamists today, in all cases the enemy was funded and grown by the west itself.
Don't let yourself be distracted from the crimes against humanity that are being committed in Palestine, and be careful when drawing parallels to Iraq, remember the false pretenses that were used in both Iraqi wars.
To be fair I do not call it resistance. Israeli could do a heck of a lot more damage with its military than people think. Israeli holds back it's actions due to the international community. If the military switched to a total war doctrine of WW2 they could wipe both territories and the majority of it's people off the map.
Topic: Asymmetric outrage.