Why don’t pro-Palestinian protesters actually go to the Palestinian territories? - Washington Examiner

I'm too old to be protesting, but I have visited Israel and the West Bank in 2008 and have a friend who's family lives in Ramallah and used to live in Jenin until the setteler situation became so hostile. There is definitely step to far in a lot of this but the general treatment of Palastinians warrants condemnation by US well preceding the Oct 7th attacks. The US in the Bush era and Israel since has done everything to create a generational powderkeg of disaffected youth with nothing to lose. They've empowed Hamas through a failure to give any victories to moderates (Fatah or Palastinian Authority) to be able to hoist within their community on issues of territorial sovernty, recognition of basic human rights, and aknowlgement of the validity of governing bodies. They've allowed continued encroachment on Palastinian territory through settlements and furthered their treatment of the Palastinian people as little more than cattle to be hearded into an ever shrinking pasture through apartied walls, blockades and dehumnization.

I understand the motivations and reality of the current war, there was no acceptable answer other than to destroy Hamas for their vile acts of rape an murder and as they're ingrained in every aspect of Gaza, that surely means complete destruction but I honestly don't see how Israel at this point returns Gaza to the Palastinians. They've leveled almost everything with the completion of that coming as they push south and the political will to allow re-establisment of any kind of normal life for Palastinians will be non-existant within the Knesset.

This isn't some solution to things, I'm really in no position to have one, but I do understand the anger that we just poured billions into what will likely be the erradication of the homeland of a people who were largely born into a life with no hope. Hamas is a scourge, Netenyau is a power hungry politician that never saw any benefit to acknowledging the Palastinian people, and we're somehow mixed up in this to the point where our muntions are the ones being used to to level city blocks and pour the blood of innocent civilians into the streets.