[hbt]

When Israel controls the food intake of a population (The Gaza Diet) through a complete blockade, Israel doesn't get to claim they withdrew or respect the sovereignty of the Palestinian people.

Israel tried to do in Gaza what they did in the West Bank. Carve it up, control key resources, create settlements through terrorism and encroach daily on Palestinian territory.

Their settler-colonial crimes are well documented in the West Bank but Israel didn't have enough people and resources at the time to carry crimes both in the West Bank and Gaza.

[amluto]

> Finally, Jewish people cannot colonise an area they’ve been for 3000 years.

I’m not sure what that means.

I’m a person. I have ancestors who were likely [0] forced out of at least four identifiable countries. Many if not most Americans are in a similar position.

Does this mean that my descendants could “colonize” places where my ancestors never lived but could not “colonize” places where they did not live?

If I moved, permanently, to Antarctica, Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, New York, England, Russia, Ukraine, Mars, or Argentina, would I be colonizing, “returning”, etc? Does the answer really depend on where my ancestors lived 50 or 100 or 3000 years ago?

I do think there’s something to be said for someone moving to where their recent ancestors live or lived, but this gets complicated very very quickly, especially when political borders move in the mean time.

I once visited the house in a foreign country where some of ancestors lived in the 1930s, from which they were quite aggressively removed. I’m pretty sure that if I moved back there by force, I would be doing something very very wrong.

[0] I say “likely” because some degree of extrapolation is needed as to what happened tens of generations ago. And the number is likely much larger than 4.

[Hikikomori]

Israel controls what and who moved through the Egypt border.

Is that land area enough to feed their population?

Jews can't colonize an area where they're literally kicking people out of their homes?

[wahnfrieden]

Israel controls the Rafah border crossing via treaties with Egypt. Egypt does not have autonomous control over that crossing, unless they break treaties.