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Re: Hamas Israel War
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Originally Posted by Chris
Notwithstanding the ICJ’s legal opinion, Isreal does not occupy Gaza. It forcibly evicted the last Israeli settlers there in 2005. Even the ICJ admits its definition of ‘occupation’ hangs on the fact that Israel ‘could’ exercise control over the territory if it wished, not that it actually does so.
Regardless of the above, you can play chicken and egg with this all the way back to 1947 and even earlier. Arguments built on arbitrary dates (1967 being a popular one) are inherently bad faith.
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No they just hold the entire population hostage by the ability to stop routine daily life in its tracks on a whim
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