This conflict that has been going on now for years seems to be a new topic of hot debate. Sadly in our popular and main news stations we see an extreme bias towards the Israelis. This extremely unfair and idiotic war is spun so much by the media that it seems as Israel is the poor defenseless nation and Palestine the tyrant back by larger foreign military support.
But the reality of the conflict in Gaza is that Israel along with the support of the United States and other foreign powers are exploiting and terrorizing the Palestinian people. The United States wanted to spread democracy through the world thinking it would work (because hopefully their guy wold win) but during the elections in Palestine Hamas won the election. Hamas being an "anti-american" organization/government drew the attention of the United States. It seems that even through a fair and open election the consesus of the Palestinian people was not enough just because they did not elect an american friendly government. This sounds like hyprocicy at its finest.
If you merely look at this war's casaulities you can see the complete one-sidedness of it. (These numbers may not be 100% accuract but gives a rough estimate of the ratio between Israeli and Palestinian lives lost)

Now after observing the chart how does the war look now? Fair and balanced? Two sided with equal amount of arms and support fighting in an endless battle? And how does the news and politicians have the audacity to claim the Palestine is the aggressor. This bias may arise for many reasons. After World War II the United States among other allies gave the Israeli's the state of Israel. This state was not recognize by everyone immediately, the first country to recognize the state of Israel was the United States of America. Other reaseons for the support of Israel is that and the United States share a common "religious foundation."
The common Judeo-Christian foundation that america precieves to have along with the Jewish culture that the Israeli's settlers live gives another bond between the US and Israel. Palestine is an arab country and ever since 9/11 anything arab or middle eastern is seen as the plague.
This conflict is the cause of religious dogma and politics. Nations working for temporary soultions, ceasefires that fall apart. It seems to me that the United States would have a better course of action against a country that they don't support or like besides carpet bombing those fuckers or arming their enemies.
What do you think about the conflict between Palestine and Israel? How much do you blame it on religion and how much do you blame it on dogma and stubbornness?
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