[ID: Twitter thread by lina 🇵🇸 @LinaPosting from October 24, 2023 that reads: a seeming contradiction in zionist thought is whether or not Gaza counts as a state. if Gaza is not a state, but is in fact a territory controlled by Israel, Israel's actions toward it do not count as retaliation against a government, but against a civilian population (1/x)
and is a retaliation against a civilian population within its own jurisdiction. if Gaza is a state, then Israel's blockade and sieges of Gaza are in of themselves a declaration of war, and would be if done against any other country.
this kind of 'quasi-state' status Zionists seem to be projecting has no basis in law and is self contradictory. Either Gaza is a state, in which case its rights and sovereignty are aggrieved, or it is not a state, in which case as a territory it is supposed to be administered
in accordance with international law as an occupied territory, which it is not.
Zionists want Gaza to be a state for the purposes of an 'invasion' of Israel, but not to be a state for the purposes of the multitude of realities which would be a provocation of war if the former case were true. An occupied population cannot conduct an 'invasion'
of the occupying country. An occupying power has particular obligations toward the territory it occupies, which Israel does not meet, and an occupying power cannot be 'provoked' by an occupied population into war.
this is all, of course, the long way around for Israel to avoid acknowledging that Gaza and the West Bank are effectively part of Israel, and as such its policy toward seemingly permanently 'occupied' territory pending final status resolution is apartheid
This is not some petty side tangent, it’s at the core of Israeli policy toward Gaza. Israel inflicts the worst possible outcome toward Gaza and then takes contradictory positions to make it seem like it’s acting against an unruly neighbor rather than the Ghetto that Gaza is