Barack Obama 10 years ago on Palestine
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There's only one thing he said that isn't true : that 'Israel has a right to build a state of their own in their homeland.'
Israelis did not build a state in their homeland. They built a state in someone else's homeland.
That's what colonialism is. And this has always been brutal colonialism; literally illegal invasion and settlement, illegal expansion, with added constant harassment and acts of terror against the indigenous population, aided by wealthy countries, especially Britain and the USA - centrally, and other countries too scared to oppose them.
Look at the UN vote for an immediate ceasefire : the countries that voted no, or abstained from voting are all the ones too scared to oppose the US - they're either helped by the US, and don't want to anger them, or they have hard won but still always on tenterhooks trade or other relationships with them.
America is only a champion of peace when it suits them, and even then everyone else just agrees that they're too hot headed and unpredictably changeable to properly call them out and reveal to them that they don't actually have a democracy. Their idea of it isn't what that actually is. Real equality? They don't know her.
