A pro-Palestinian rally Sunday in Times Square endorsed by the city chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America ensnared prominent party members amid widespread condemnation of the event.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and other leading Democrats blasted the rally as “abhorrent and morally repugnant” and drew a dividing line with far-left members of the party — including New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman, who denounced the attacks and called for a ceasefire but didn’t take a stand on the rally.

“I condemn Hamas’ attack in the strongest possible terms,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement. “No child and family should ever endure this kind of violence and fear, and this violence will not solve the ongoing oppression and occupation in the region. An immediate ceasefire and de-escalation is urgently needed to save lives.”

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They’ve tried nothing else, but this is the only way!

Tell me you know nothing about Palestine without telling me you know nothing about Palestine.

You might wanna look up the Oslo peace process (which, by the way, came after the first intifada).

I mean Israel funded Hamas specifically to weaken the PLO; they’ve proven time and time again that they don’t want peace.

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The Oslo peace Accords that Palestinians walked away from and immediately started a famously cruel wave of terrorist attacks? Those Oslo Accords?

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Yes, the Oslo Accords where Israel refused to even let Palestinians have a military.

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Truly, shocking. I wonder why they wouldn’t have been comfortable with that. It just confounds the mind.

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And?

The Allies wouldn’t let post-wwii Germany have a military either.

You don’t let the people who tried to kill you build an army in peace time only to grow powerful enough to kill you.

The Palestinian refugees only exist because the countries that they used to belong to try to invade and destroy Israel.

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What was in the Oslo peace process that Gaza doesn’t have?

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No no, the peace process failed. What Gaza has now (which isn’t a lot considering… y’know) is a result of the Second Intifada that came after.

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What they have is because of a good faith effort by Israeli’s left wing parties to broker a “prove-it” peace deal in Gaza. In Gaza, they gave up every single demand that Palestine had for the West Bank as a whole as a way to prove domestically that such an outcome would lead to peace.

So tell me, what did Palestine demand in the Oslo Accords that they didn’t get in the Gaza deal?

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