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@MarkoHodled @tiffanyyzhao Wrong comparison. The Arab conquest of the Levant was the result of bloody, imperialist colonization.

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@Shepherds4Good They’re urbanized because they have access to modern life: they’ve built cities, universities, transport systems, and more. Stop erasing Palestinian self-governance, you racists.

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@wnspart96 @Ifdn2026 @MikeFellman EXACTLY! You’re right: Jews didn’t have a right of return 2000 years ago. Palestinians can earn the same claim: preserve their cultural connection to the land for 2000 y. and then they can argue for a right of return. Until then, they’re displaced people like the Sudeten Germans.

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@jjz1600 Educate us: what is the actual percentage of the Palestinian Authority’s GDP accounted for by olive cultivation? (Spoiler: officially, 2.14%.) It’s a wonderful cultural tradition, but not the foundation of an economy.

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@wnspart96 @Ifdn2026 @MikeFellman Well, if the right of return was established as a precedent after 2,000 years of exile, I suggest we discuss the Palestinians’ right of return on exactly the same basis when their 2,000 years are up. So, 3948?

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@MaytalKowalski In real life, the world seems to accept that Jews have no right to complain about antisemitism until they’ve been persecuted and killed in "sufficient numbers". Welcome to our shoes.

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@AlanVRK @JacobALinker Olives are wind-pollinated, and pollen travels across very short distances. Singling out one specific area as uniquely significant would therefore be scientifically unjustified.

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@FilipMelanchton @Alonso_GD On the one hand, we’re talking about the bureaucratic burden on a handful of private businesses. On the other, the significance of this issue for the Palestinian people as a group, a nation, and a country is vastly overstated.

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@FilipMelanchton @Alonso_GD 88 km² less than the area of a single EU city (16% of the Judea&Shomron olive groves) require prior military coordination for harvesting. Only three locations have been reported as closed military zones. Coordination requirements and outright closures are not the same thing.

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@FilipMelanchton @Alonso_GD I’m glad you used this opportunity to reinforce, before a large audience, the idea that Palestinians are a highly urbanized population with broad access to the benefits and opportunities of modern civilization.

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@FilipMelanchton @Alonso_GD I hear these claims all the time. I’m sure Eugene does too.

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@FilipMelanchton @Alonso_GD Cultural traditions deserve respect even if they bring no money :) Don’t obstruct small businesses either. But the European myth that “the land and the olive trees” are the basis of Palestinian survival as a people rests on the racism of low expectations.

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@IhabHassane Everyone considers it reasonable to tell women not to walk down dark alleys where it’s dangerous. Why do you think Arab men have more rights than any woman?

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@Buckeye_ricky @nielsbrinch How often are Palestinian efforts at self-governance completely ignored, and Palestinian civic identity erased, just to demonize Israel and spread lies about apartheid?

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@JosephSmithzon @Mostaphabenh Could you please list, precisely and in detail, all Israeli laws that treat Jewish and non-Jewish citizens differently, apart from the Law of Return?

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@am_na @Mostaphabenh This is Abbas’s official residence; that’s one of thousands of homes owned by Palestinian businesspeople and officials. But, as in any chauvinistic dictatorship, society is deeply unequal, and some people are treated as second-class citizens. In the PA, that’s the Bedouins.

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@JosephSmithzon @Mostaphabenh Palestine has gender apartheid and a Nazi dictatorship. Support extending Israeli sovereignty in Area C, so more women can enjoy basic rights and more people can have a decent life.

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@JosephSmithzon @Mostaphabenh It's not one house. There are thousands like it, and luxury cars fill the roads. Nobody is so hard up that they have to sleep standing up. There's enough space and money for everyone. If you idiots stopped supporting their dreams of destroying Israel, peace would be possible.

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@IhabHassane You're being unfair to Gaza's merchants! They're trying to push back to keep prices down for residents, but Hamas's enforcers are already crushing their resistance, portraying Israel as the obstacle to food supplies.