Taminad Crittenden
1 min readMay 28, 2024

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Now with the "prison camp" slander. (1) It is totally fine for countries like Israel to build walls around themselves. The other country doesn't have a right to object or stop it. (2) Gaza has effectively been in a position no different from a landlocked country like Andorra, Armenia, or Afghanistan. Landlocked countries are not prison camps. (3) For most of human history, people never went more than a few miles away from their birthplace during their entire lives. Gazans not being able to go more than a few miles within Gaza is not a "prison camp" - On the contrary, it is the condition we evolved in, and so even if it isn't ideal, it is totally normal and normally healthy. (4) Egypt also built a wall around Gaza. Why won’t you criticize Egypt? Oh yeah, you’re a racist anti-Semite. No country in the world wants extremists, and unfortunately too many Gazans are extremists. Gazans don’t have a right to go to other countries. They have a right to leave their country, but not a right to enter any other country. Thus, they have to get other countries’ agreement to accept them, but no one wants extremists. If Gazans wants my support for their right to cross Israeli lines of control to leave, they first have to get other countries to agree to take them in, but that won’t happen if too many Gazans refuse to stop being extremists.

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Taminad Crittenden
Taminad Crittenden

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