It wasn’t a “surprise”. It was 15yrs in the making. Or 75yrs if we go back to 1948. Or 100+yrs if we start w the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
And it’s not a conflict. There are no two equal sides. One is the coloniser with an army, the other the occupied with no army, exercising their right to resist.
A surprise, coordinated assault on Israel by Palestinian militants Saturday — one of the deadliest and most brazen in years — brought renewed attention to an old problem: A conflict that has vexed the Middle East for decades. wapo.st/3LMmC4Y
It wasn’t a “surprise”. It was 15yrs in the making. Or 75yrs if we go back to 1948. Or 100+yrs if we start w the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
And it’s not a conflict. There are no two equal sides. One is the coloniser with an army, the other the occupied with no army, exercising their right to resist.