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Metsfan2044 t1_j6n8bzs wrote

Reply to comment by TheGoblinPopper in Pope calls for Israel, Palestinians to halt 'spiral of death' by MijTinmol

100% this! People who have never been to the region will never understand the complexity of the situation. And it absolutely kills me that our educational system is allowing BDS to be an actual thing. Those who support BDS can’t grasp the concept that Hamas’s (the ruling party) convent literally states that "our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious" and calls for the eventual creation of an Islamic state in Palestine, in place of Israel and the Palestinian Territories,[3] and the obliteration or dissolution of Israel.[4][5] It emphasizes the importance of jihad, stating in article 13, "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad.”

And sadly they aren’t even the most extreme group in the Palestinian Territories

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TheGoblinPopper t1_j6njqns wrote

I mean as an American I was unaware of the nuance. Like how they won't stamp your passport.

Why? Because when we went to Jordan the border crossing agents "won't accept a defaced passport with a stamp from a made-up control like Israel."

Literally what they told us at the border. My wife and I love getting stamps in our passports and they refused.

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