Melancholia - Anna Calleja , 2021.

Maltese , b. 1997 -

1) Israel is not colonialist, it is an indigenous nation-state. No amount of terrorism will make the Jews leave, because we have nowhere to leave to.

2) The Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have never undergone genocide at the hands of Israel. Populations experiencing genocide go down, not up like the population boom Palestine has seen in the past 70 years.

Although, given the events of Saturday, that may change!

3) The border wall is not apartheid any more than the border with Lebanon is apartheid, because Gazans are not Israeli citizens. They are its sovereign enemies sworn to Israel's destruction.

4) All the violence Israel commits against Palestinians-- and there is a lot of it! I don't deny that, and I understand their pain!-- is in the name of self defense. If the Palestinians could be trusted not to murder Israelis, the oppression of the status quo would not exist.