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For centuries: *Palestinian Arabs and Jews live together peacefully, respecting each other’s religions and cooperating; Jews account for 5-10% of the Palestinian population* 1914-1916: *Ottoman Empire collapses, Britain and France carve up Middle East, Britain occupies Palestine with absolutely no right to do so* 1917: *Balfour Declaration signed, promising Zionists a home in Palestine, also with no right to do so* 1919: *Zionists begin immigrating to Palestine in massive numbers to make Palestine “as Jewish as England is English” (Weizmann) — looking to replace the existing population with this <10% minority group* 1922 - 1935: *Immigration takes Jewish population in Palestine from 9% to almost 27%; Incoming Zionists rename towns and cities, ignoring existing practices and customs* 1936: *In an attempt to protect their homeland, Palestinian Arabs mount revolt against British and Zionist colonists; British violently suppress revolt, killing, injuring, imprisoning or deporting 10% of Palestinian males by 1939* 1944 - 1946: *Zionist colonists declare war on British colonists — eventually bombing King David Hotel in 1946 killing 91, including Jews, Arabs and Brits — as they wanted to take over Palestine faster than Brits would allow* 1947: *Brits hand over Palestine to the UN; due to relentless immigration, 1/3 of population are now Jewish, but only 6% of land is Jewish-owned, however the UN partitions the land giving Zionists 55% of the land including key Arab-populated areas* 1948: *Nakba happens: Zionists ethnically cleanse Palestinian Arab homes and lands by force* For the next 77 years: *ethnic cleansing, apartheid, massacres, rapes, oppression of the worst kind against Palestinians* Every day, right up to Oct 6th, 2023, where a 19-year-old was shot dead in the West Bank by a Zionist settler: *Palestinians endure kidnapping/rape/torture/murder/dehumanisation of the worst kind* Oct 7th, 2023: *Hamas attacks Israel, taking hostages to trade for some of the thousands Israel holds* Oct 8th - ongoing: *Israel unequivocally commits genocide on Palestinians, refusing to agree hostage release deal, creating the worst live-streamed collection of war crimes in the history of mankind* Some drooling little man sitting behind a keyboard who can’t even fathom the totality of suffering that exists within a single point on this list: hAmAs StArTeD tHiS wAr