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I really cannot emphasize this enough because it totally reframes the ethnic context of this war away from one between Arabs and a group living in Europe with a distant connection to Israel to a conflict between Arabs and a persecuted minority group primarily hailing from Arab countries themselves.60%, A MAJORITY of Jews in Israel, are descendant of Jews who had already been living in the middle east for literal milenia prior to the founding of Israel, and were driven to drop everything, abandon their property, and flee to the not-yet-official Jewish state in order to escape ethnic cleansing by Arab muslims. These large scale cleansings were in major part inspired by the Nazis.
This immediately dispells accusations of Israel somehow being a primarily European or settler project, and for that reason Hamas and their supporters do everything possible to obfuscate and ignore it.
While we're on the topic it is important to note that a common claim among Hamas and their supporters is that Israel is an American client totally dependent on military aid and that it will collapse the second that aid stops. This is politically essential because it gives Israel's enemies reason to keep fighting what would otherwise be a transparently pointless struggle. However, it is historically false and empirically ridiculous. Israel decisively defeated the first two Arab invasion attempts with functionally zero foreign aid, and even today Americans aid makes up only 15% of the IDFs budget. Nuclear weapons aside, even if America demanded Israel pay for everything, it would be very much within the state's capacity to do, it would just require a modest tax increase.
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