S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in Israel on Friday for meetings with senior government leaders and to see firsthand some of the U.S. weapons and security assistance that Washington rapidly delivered to Israel in the first week of its war with the militant Hamas group.

Austin is the second high-level U.S. official sent by President Joe Biden to visit Israel in two days. His quick trip from Brussels, where he was attending a NATO defense ministers meeting, came a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the region. Blinken is continuing the frantic Mideast diplomacy, seeking to avert an expanded regional conflict.

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    Palestine couldn’t have cared less and supported the ottoman empires genocide against christians. You expect people like me, whos ancestors were almost exterminated by Muslims, to care about palestine, a region named by the romans to disassociate it from being jewish. You know the Jews, who were there first inhabitants, who were kicked out by force from their native homeland. Let me guess, that happened a long time ago, its 2023 now, let the past go. Well in 50 years let me know if anyone cares that israel leveled gaza and engaged in a genocide. Hopefully ill be around to tell you it happened a long time ago and to let it go. Jews live there now, cant kick people out of their homes.

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      So you’re explicitly in support of genocide against Gaza? Or am I misunderstanding?

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      The Israelis have been actively and constantly stealing land for the past couple of decades.

      Why didn’t you mention that part i wonder?

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      The Canaanites were the first inhabitants that we know of. King David captured it from them and turned it into a capital. So by your logic we should give it back to the Canaanites from whom King David stole it from 3,000 years ago.