You wrote an ahistorical lie about interfaith harmony under medieval Islam. I responded with the facts about that lying Islamist and anti-semitic propaganda and you answer about oil. Israel isn't a petro state, but a tech superpower with more non-US Nasdaq listed companies built from nothing but brainpower than any other country on earth.
Israel's power comes from nearly 4000 years of accumulated intellectual evolution: Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jesus, Maimonides, Spinoza, Marx, Mahler, Freud, Einstein, Eisenstein, Wilder, Korda, Kertesz, Capa, Bellow, Pinter, Oppenheimer, Szilard, Gell-Mann, Bohr, Fermi, Teller, Feynmann, Von Neumann, Andy Grove and most of the best comedians of the 20th century. And this is a very short list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_laureates
Your narcissistic hubris-filled brain that thinks all conflicts can be resolved by your psychobabblicious therapy skill set generates amoral bothsidesism on a prodigious scale, like the "gas the Jews" demos that began on October 8 before Israel had taken any military action in Gaza at all.
About Israel committing "war crimes" in Gaza: To paraphrase Groucho Marx, "call your lawyer as soon as he gets out of law school.", because then all these actions were war crimes:
1. Yugoslav partisans invading Italian-occupied Istria in 1945.
2. General Leclerc's Free French army entering Germany in 1944-45.
3. The US invading Saipan and Okinawa in 1944-45 and the US postwar occupations of Japan and Germany.
4. The Soviets entering East Prussia and Silesia.
5. Allied forces entering Iraqi territory to liberate Kuwait.
6. Polish partisans entering Silesia and Danzig (now Gdansk) in 1945.
7. The Egyptian occupation of Gaza and the Jordanian occupation of the West Bank from 1948-67.
I don't know what rock you've been living under, but Gaza is unoccupied since 2005. Hamas is the governing authority in Gaza since its bloody coup against Fatah in 2007. The occupation that began with Nasser's blockade that triggered that triggered the Six Day War the Arabs lost ended when Israel traded land for peace and got no peace, but intermittent war that's turned every Jew into a "global intifada" target.
The Hamas attack didn't end. Hamas continues to fire rockets into Israel, using its stockpiles of fuel while starving its own human shields of fuel and food. 2023-1967 = 56, not 57. Basic math seems to elude you.
Here's what you define as resistance: cutting off the breasts of necrophilic rape, using knives to extract the fetus of a pregnant woman while she was still alive, genital mutilation of rape victims identical to the Japanese Rape of Nanjing, burning and beheading babies, gouging out the eyes of a father in front of his children....
Watch the security cam footage of Gazan civilians looting kibbutz Nir Oz. But, oh, this is resistance, of course: https://stand4israel.net/media/Exclusive%3A%20security%20camera%20footage%20of%20Kibbutz%20Nir%20Oz%20from%20October%207th%20-(Embedded%20English)/1_jym9yoyz
Even the anti-Israel BBC, which has always refused to use the term "terrorist" for Hamas, couldn't ignore this:
"The BBC has seen and heard evidence of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women during the 7 October Hamas attacks.
Several people involved in collecting and identifying the bodies of those killed in the attack told us they had seen multiple signs of sexual assault, including broken pelvises, bruises, cuts and tears, and that the victims ranged from children and teenagers to pensioners.
Video testimony of an eyewitness at the Nova music festival, shown to journalists by Israeli police, detailed the gang rape, mutilation and execution of one victim.
Videos of naked and bloodied women filmed by Hamas on the day of the attack, and photographs of bodies taken at the sites afterwards, suggest that women were sexually targeted by their attackers.
Few victims are thought to have survived to tell their own stories.
Their last moments are being pieced together from survivors, body-collectors, morgue staff and footage from the attack sites.
Police have privately shown journalists a single horrific testimony that they filmed of a woman who was at the Nova festival site during the attack.
She describes seeing Hamas fighters gang rape a woman and mutilate her, before the last of her attackers shot her in the head as he continued to rape her.
Hamas fighters stormed the Nova festival on 7 October and killed hundreds
In the video, the woman known as Witness S mimes the attackers picking up and passing the victim from one to another.
"She was alive," the witness says. "She was bleeding from her back."
She goes on to detail how the men cut off parts of the victim's body during the assault.
"They sliced her breast and threw it on the street," she says. "They were playing with it."
The victim was passed to another man in uniform, she continues.
"He penetrated her, and shot her in the head before he finished. He didn't even pick up his pants; he shoots and ejaculates."
One man we spoke to from the festival site said he heard the "noises and screams of people being murdered, raped, decapitated".
To our question about how he could be sure - without seeing it - that the screams he heard indicated sexual assault rather than other kinds of violence, he said he believed while listening at the time that it could only have been rape.
A statement he made through a support organisation describes it as "inhuman".
"Some women were raped before they were dead, some raped while injured, and some were already dead when the terrorists raped their lifeless bodies," his statement says. "I desperately wanted to help, but there was nothing I could do."
BBC/Dave Bull Nova Festival site after attackBBC/Dave Bull
