Israel vs Palestine; who do you support and why

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I'm neutral on this; I don't want the US funding Israel simply because I'm America first, but I'm neutral in terms of whom I'm rooting for.

Anyone that is claiming Anti Zionism is anti semetism but Ye West isn't anti sematic doesn't make sense to me on this.
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It's not a sport. People are dying. Don't root for anybody. 
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Thing is:

Violence and revenge are real time events, regardless of past events.
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Mario says, "People are dying. Don't root for anybody."

Luigi says, "If they're brown, mow them down."
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Neither side is completely morally good.

Its just that Israel started this shit long time ago and there are consequences even today.
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It's not a sport. People are dying. Don't root for anybody
I never thought this would happen, but I agree with you 100%. Both sides have done wrong, and have had wrong done to them. That said, it is no excuse to be committing human rights violations and possible genocide. In the words of my mother “I don’t care who started it, just stop fighting!”
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I never thought this would happen, but I agree with you 100%
We probably agree on a lot. For example, I am against what happened. Americans never should have enslaved blacks
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Well duh. I never had you pegged for a 1800’s southern plantation owner.

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Well duh. I never had you pegged for a 1800’s southern plantation owner.
Yeah, I am not Jewish. The slave trade was dominated by Jews and you can see it by looking at the last names of the biggest slave traders at the time. Had I been Jewish back then, maybe I would have owned slaves. 

The big reaso I am against slavery though, is that because we brought blacks to America, now we have blacks in america
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Do you know if Palestinian people actually support Hamas? 
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Most do or did. Hamss getting so many killed may change their mind. Although hamas redirecting aid money to build weapons and tunnels instead of schools, hospitals and to feed those struggling didn't change their mind so this probably won't either
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@wylted

 The slave trade was dominated by Jews 
This seems very unrealistic.  There were at most 3000 Jews in the US in 1820; most of whom lived in northern cities.  There were about 350K slave owners.

Jews were poor back then.
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Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight
ELI FABER
In recent years interest regarding the extent to which Jews participated in the institution of slavery in the Americas has stemmed from allegations that they predominated in the slave trade and that they owned slaves well in excess of their proportion among the white population. This study argues that they did neither. To the contrary, their participation in the slave trade and in the ownership of slaves was quite small. When compared with their non-Jewish contemporaries, their involvement was one that had little impact.
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That is a Jewish source.

Also the biggest slave ships were owned by Jews. 

Did you know a larger percentage of black people owned slaves than white people and if 40% of hews owned slaves and less than 5% of whites in the country owned them, why is white character being attacked when hews were more likely to be owners of slaves
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The study you are referencing is referring to what percent of slaves were owned by jews instead of something like looking at ownership op percentage of slave ships and over the percent of jews who owned slaves which is more indicative of their character than visa versa
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That is a Jewish source.

I read the article, that was true.  But you are forgetting what year this was in:

Eli Faber, a historian at New York City’s John Jay College reported that in 1790, Charleston’s Jews owned a total of 93 slaves, and that “perhaps six Jewish families” lived in Savannah in 1771.
Pretty much everyone owned slaves back then if you had the money.  It's like getting angry at George Washington because he owned slaves.

I would get more upset at someone who owned slaves in 1860 than someone who owned then in 1790 because people are a product of their cultural time.

if 40% of hews owned slaves and less than 5% of whites in the country owned them, why is white character being attacked when hews were more likely to be owners of slaves
I am anti reparations; I don't blame modern day white people (gentile or Jewish) for stuff their ancestors did 250 years ago.