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That ain’t it, chief. Israel is a violent colonizer. Individual Jews are often persecuted for being Jewish. Those are separate and unrelated statements.
Israel isn't a colonizer. This bullshit narrative is literally only believed by Marxists who get all their information through propaganda. About 70% of Israelis were already there, they're native to the region. This idea that the majority of Israelis are European Jews is false, and so is the idea that Palestine before 1948 being a homogenous islamist Arab state. This region was always populated by Jews, Christians, and other groups. Jews, specifically, were oppressed and colonized by the various islamic empires because islam is deeply antisemtic, but they were still there despite all of their hardships. Israel didn't pop out of thin air, and the European Jews who did migrate didn't start from scratch. There were already large Jewish communities all over the region. When the Ottoman Empire fell, these Jewish communities finally had a chance to do something and so they started organizing, and with the help of the Brits they formed the modern state of Israel. When the Arabs saw this, they felt that their power was threatened and so they tried to genocide the Jews and destroy the state of Israel entirely... multiple times, and they failed each time. That's how we got to where we are. It's an oversimplification obviously, but it is an accurate portrayal of the situation. Trying to portray the origins of the modern state of Israel as the same as the colonization of the Americas is inaccurate in every way.
I’m talking about settlers.
There are no Israeli settlers in Gaza
Correct, why would they want to live there? The West Bank and golan heights are much nicer.
Israel did have Israeli settlements in Gaza, but it unilaterally gave them up to Gaza in 2005. The Israelis who were living were mad and didn't want to leave voluntarily so Israel forcefully evicted them and took down the settlements. The hope was that by disengaging with Gaza, there would be an alternative path for peace with the Palestinians as they refused any peace offer or a two state solution.
Gaza in 2005 was a much easier place to live than it is now.
If you want to know who the lying shill is, look elsewhere in the thread. I called him out, and you can see his comment history for yourself.