It wasn’t that long ago millions of young people had some of the best months of their lives stolen from them all to unsuccessfully avoid what was a nasty cold for the overwhelming majority.
To suggest youngsters have not sacrificed anything in recent years is offensive guff.
Congo celebrating being in the world cup is like Bodo Glimt celebrating being in the champions league. You can’t style us, you’ll say wagwan bare times you aint gonna say bonjour or anything French once. You croissant pricks, fuck off man
I’m just trying to keep the Candace/Tucker storyline straight here. Israel can’t have any prophetic significance because it’s a secular, godless state and the people there aren’t even real Jews anyway — they’re Turkic Khazar impostors. But at the same time Israel is masterminding a global religious war so they can rebuild the Third Jewish Temple. So the working theory is that a nation of secular atheist Turks are masterminding the restoration of the ancient Jewish priesthood and Temple system, which requires verified Jewish lineage to function. These sneaky Turks!
Now the school bombing has been confirmed to be the work of Iran there are people who are actually disappointed.
Think deeply about how corrupted by ideology those people are.
Actual adults in this country look at Israel, with its free press, independent judiciary, equal rights for all (including Arabs) and democratic elections. Then they look at the Iranian regime and they see a government run by clerics under a barbaric, medieval code, the execution, rape and torture of women and the execution of gays for being gay. And they decide: "Yup, I'm on the side of the Ayatollahs."
We Had a Chance to End the Conflict and We Chose to Burn It.
In 2005, something historic happened.
Israel withdrew completely from Gaza - not just its soldiers, but also all of its civilians, farms, and settlements. Thousands of Israeli families were uprooted from their homes by their own government. Synagogues were dismantled, greenhouses and infrastructure worth hundreds of millions of dollars were left behind - not destroyed, but handed over to give us a chance to start fresh.
For the first time in our history, we had full control over a piece of land - our own borders, our own cities, our own people, and access to the sea. The world was ready to help. Billions in aid and investment were promised.
It could have been the beginning of a Palestinian Singapore.
But instead of building schools, hospitals, and industries, we built tunnels, rockets, and militias.
Instead of creating hope, we chose hatred.
Instead of turning Gaza into proof that Palestinians can govern themselves, we turned it into proof that we cannot.
When Israel left, the world expected calm, peace, and progress.
What did we give them?
Civil war between Fatah and Hamas.
Executions in the streets.
A terror group seizing power and turning Gaza into a launching pad for endless wars.
And the world still asks: Why doesn’t Israel “just give up the West Bank” too?
Because they already saw what happened the last time they gave land for nothing in return.
The truth is painful, but it must be said:
We were given a chance to build a future and we used it to destroy our own.
We could have shown that we were ready for peace.
Instead, we showed that we were ruled by those who fear peace more than they fear death.
Every rocket fired from Gaza wasn’t just aimed at Israel - it was aimed at our own future.
And now, after all the destruction, poverty, and death, I keep asking myself:
What if, just once, we had chosen life instead of revenge?
We had the opportunity to end the conflict.
But our leaders and too many of us chose to keep it alive.