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My point was that Germans were killed by the millions too, by just about everyone ... and no attacks. Nobody is predicting any attacks by Germans either. And there's 100s of examples of such conflicts with every variable you could possibly want. We have the problem that nobody wants to face: terror attacks are a choice by the group that uses them, and the vast majority of groups just don't, including under far worse circumstances than this particular group.

EVEN where you do see terror attacks, there are large differences. The IRA, for example, went out of it's way to avoid hitting children and hospitals. By contrast, Palestinians really, really try to go after children and the sick. In fact the IRA made big efforts, sometimes outright stupid, to go after military bases or politicians involved in the situation they wanted to change, and to avoid everyone else. They have apologized, without being asked, to unintended victims. They have even given up some of their own members who "went too far". And, of course, given a way out, they choose to take it. The IRA was a lot closer to someone like Luigi Mangione than they are to the PLO. The explanation? We all know it but it's forbidden to say: ideology.

Even restricting to Israel itself. Israel has had to defend itself a lot, and the situation is not at all what the GP predicts. It's not the case that every group that got attacked wants to commit terror acts against Israel, in fact it's really just 1 group (or 2 if you consider them separately). And it's not even Palestinians! The overwhelming majority of Palestinians are in Jordan, and not attacking Israel at all. It's Palestinians living under state sponsored terror groups, it's very large amounts of Palestinians, a bunch of supposedly Lebanese but really Syrians, and Yemenites. The Palestinians paid originally by the Soviets, now the UN, the rest as well as Palestinians now paid by Iran. And paid A LOT, on a large scale. The terror attacks are a mercenary army, bought and paid for, and the only God they believe in is not allah but the true, undeniable almighty: Thomas Jefferson on a green background.

I am told it goes this far: a foot soldier for Hamas in Gaza makes more than a hospital director makes in Egypt. The unemployment benefits in Gaza are 3 times a normal wage in Egypt. And this in a part of the world that has >90% unemployment. THAT explains some things, doesn't it?

Hence the explanation that countries/groups/... attack because they want to steal something and think they can get it through brute force, not because of actual grievances, is the only explanation that I find even remotely fits.

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Germany also lost about 25% of its land after WW2 to neighbors and yet they haven't built their entire society around getting it back the way Palestinians have



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