One of the standard defences we hear from the apartheid supporters is that Israel is 'defending its borders'.
There are three major issues with that claim.
1) Israel and its defenders refuse or cannot say where those borders lie and cannot or will not even provide a map defining its borders. That's because Israel is still trying to steal more and more of what could have been Palestine. How
2) Gaza is a prison camp and the walls around it are not borders, just prison walls. There is no physical country of Palestine, even though the UN recognizes it as a country. Because Israel is occupying it against the law and still actively trying to steal, control or 'annex' more of it.
3) How can you claim to be defending anything when you are illegally occupying another country and actively trying to 'annex' that country out of existence? Its the ultimate act of aggression against another country and the very opposite of defending your country.
More than 50 years of occupation and 10 years of blockade have made the lives of 1.9 million Palestinians living inside the Gaza Strip unbearable. That is why they now are protesting and risking th...
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As the UN says, Israel has created a living hell for children and now we have racist monsters defending shooting children while accusing anyone offended by these acts 'terrorist supporters'.
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