Steve QJ
1 min readApr 13, 2024

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Pretty much every country on Earth has a border with other countries. This is fine. Egypt has a border with Gaza. This is fine. Israel has a blockade over Gaza. Israel maintains complete control over access to and exit from Gaza by land, sea and air. It controls Gazan access to water, power, and supplies. This is not fine because, as anybody can understand, it is completely different.

It also happens to be against international law. So which of us is immune to facts?

There are over 2 million people in Gaza. Men, women and children. You're just going to blithely say that the world would be better off without them because Hamas is corrupt? Have you given a second's thought to why there is so much extremism in that part of the world? Do you ask yourself why they live in poverty, reliant on "your tax money" to survive? Are you capable of looking at this situation from any perspective other than your own?

And no, I'm not "next" if Hamas regroup. Are you really such a baby that yore susceptible to grade school scare tactics like this? Hamas is a terrorist group on the other side of the world. I have no problem with them being wiped from the face of the Earth. I have a problem with innocent people being killed by the tens of thousands along with them. If you can't meet even this incredibly low moral standard, don't fool yourself that you'd be any better than they are in their situation.

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Steve QJ
Steve QJ

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