This occurred to me while listening to the news. When they exchange people it’s always hostages for people held in Palestine and prisoners for people held in Israel. Why is that? Is it just perception or is there a practical difference?

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    Throwing a rock at someone can cause grievous injury or death. We’re not talking about pebbles; they’re throwing multi-kilogram stones in an attempt to damage IDF property and harm IDF soldiers.

    And you may say “ok, well, that’s war; soldiers and their equipment are fair game” and that’s fair, but if you attack enemy soldiers that makes you a soldier, whatever your age might be.

    So the IDF can either capture and imprison these people, or they can shoot them. Sometimes they do - the prisoners held by IDF are the ones they didn’t.

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      The IDF are a colonial occupying army. I think the Palestinians are responding to them the way the entire rest of the planet would.

      Face it, team Israel is deep in the toilet, stinking of shit and sewage, and the smell ain’t never coming out. Not in this life time nor in the next.

      Called karma, dude.

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        The IDF are a colonial occupying army. I think the Palestinians are responding to them the way the entire rest of the planet would.

        Theyre neither colonial nor occupying. They’re invading in response to a foreign government massacring their people. The reason for the massacre was to force Israel to respond and thus damage Israel’s normalization of diplomacy with Saudi Arabia.

        Hamas isn’t fighting off colonial oppressors. They are engaging in politically motivated terror strikes designed to weaken the standing of a people they want to exterminate, at the cost of the lives of their civilians.

        This is the way history books will describe this war - not the propaganda you find comforting.

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      Being a soldier on someone’s else’s land is highly illegal they have no business being in the west bank whatsoever but expanding their illegal colonies