A: That dehumanization begets dehumanization, terror begets terror, and none of us will be free until all of us are free; or, you know, that it might be easier to just look away.
I think we have to stop considering every human life as a precious treasure and every child as a miracle to be protected at all cost.
Instead we should consider picking sides like we choose a starter Pokémon. Who's with me on team Bulbasaur-Palestine-Russia-Armenia, because I dig their super cool aesthetics?
More like Russia-Iran-North Korea. Palestine is just a convenient place for Iran to launch their missiles while claiming it's not them. Armenia only fights because Russia bribes them.
The Egyptians defeated the Sea Peoples and forced a subgroup, the Peleset, to southern Canaan to act as a buffer state to the Hittites to the north. This displaced the locals who would go on to become the Israelites.
The Romans. Trajan sacked Jerusalem after a 5 month of siege to put out the Great Jewish Revolt (70CE). That's when the Second Temple was destroyed. Trajan's column shows Roman soldiers carting off a giant menorah in commemoration.
Palestine is from the Latin for Philistia, the lands of another ancient Canaanite tribe.
Leave Gaza? No, but they were instructed to go to the other side of Gaza, and civilian convoys doing just that were bombed. Don't worry though people who were able to flee to the camps were also bombed. As for the people who didn't flee, they were surprisingly bombed.
No but they were told to evacuate their homes in the northern Gaza strip and move to the southern Gaza strip - in 24 hours or less. I think that situation may have been deescalated. Some western governments have started telling Israel to stop some of the war crimes.