For your friends and family members who aren't sure whether to support Israel or the Palestinians. To be fair to your loved ones, much of this won't be reported in the main stream news so they may not have the full picture. I call this "How to know you are on the wrong side of history."
How to know you are on the wrong side of history:
You wish people were dead and beat, and kill peaceful protestors.
You justify killing children. When children are killed, you taunt the family.
You cut off food, water, electricity, and fuel to an entire population.
You indiscriminately bomb a population, mostly civilians, which is a war crime of collective punishment. You periodically "mow the grass" of human lives in Gaza.
You intentionally target hospitals, ambulances, & doctors which is a war crime.
You target schools with military raids, damage schools, throw tear gas into schools, and bomb schools.
You kill UN staff which is the largest number of United Nations staff killed in a war in all of the United Nations’ history.
You have to lie, spin the narrative, and use propaganda to get people to support you. You have to have people online trying to shape the narrative to support your cause because people would side with Palestine if news was reported objectively.
You bribe politicians and threaten to unseat them if they disagree with you. AIPAC controls Congress and the White House to shape US foreign policy. This is what bought politicians look like. You brag that you can move America very easily.
You target journalists so they cannot expose what you are doing with impunity.
You have one set of rights for your people with no rights for another group of people.
You routinely imprison, torture, and break the bones of children who have no due process. You sexually assault children. You automatically and systematically prosecute children in military courts.
Under martial law, you arrest administrative detainees — which means they can be held without charge, indefinitely.
You terrorize a population constantly with patrols, breaking into their homes in the middle of the night without cause, and random arrests.
You dehumanize another group of people. You raise your children to think of Arabs as inferior that justifies killing them. You teach in school that the other side should be your slaves or killed. Being the "chosen" people justifies anything you do.
You advocate ethnic cleansing and genocide: the definition of genocide.
You steal people's homes. You demolish people's homes and cemeteries and infrastructure such as roads and water pipes.
You steal their water.
You limit travel for an entire population with certain roads off limits to one group of people. Some people have to climb out their windows and hop over backyard fences because the road in front of their house has been designated off limits to walk on. To drive, this group of people need permission to travel & checkpoints stop travelers taking hours to drive just a few miles. Ambulances are routinely blocked for an hour. Travel to other areas for medical treatment, visit family, go to college, or job offers are routinely denied. Women have to give birth at home as they are denied trips to the hospital.
You spend more than 75 years pretending to negotiate while you secretly have no intention of agreeing so that you can steal more land(Wait for Trump's explanation).
You lie and cover up the past of how the country came to be to white wash atrocities.
You have a military with tanks and fighter jets and laser guided missiles to defend yourself while the other side does not. There is an inherent power imbalance. Israel has a right to self defense, but it does not have a right to impose an occupation on Palestinians. As occupiers, you have a legal and moral obligation to the well being of the people you are occupying. The occupied have the legal right to resist; however, you claim every action they take to resist is terrorism. They have a right to defend itself against an occupation. They are fighting for the right of self determination.
You use tear gas and beat up people who are peacefully worshiping. You destroy houses of worship.
You control the movement of millions of people and trap them behind walls, prevent them from leaving, limit what can be imported in an open air prison. You deliberately cut the amount of food so much that the population is malnourished. You even give this policy a name: putting them on a diet. In addition to food, you limit construction materials and supplies to fix the water systems and electrical systems.
You cut down oil groves, destroy crops, and steal livestock.
Your elected leaders committed terrorist attacks.
You are in direct violation of international law, United Nation resolutions, Camp David Accords, and Oslo Agreements.
What did I forget? It's a long list.
