Comment by pasabagi

> Borders have two sides. Gaza controls one side of her border, Egypt and Israel control the other. No state has control over both sides of its borders, not even in the Schengen states or the US.

Yes, but the kind of blockade that Israel employs around Gaza would be considered an act of war by essentially every state on earth.

I think this idea you have that Palestinians are oppressed by basically everybody except Israel is totally insane, and comes across as strategic blindness rather than honest conviction. If you just go to Hebron, you have to be pretty deluded not to see oppression, even if you're unwilling to think through the fact that Israel having defacto power in the West Bank entails that the rights of Palestinians are being denied by Israel, and it's immaterial whether that's by commission or omission, even if you're going to ignore any of the many ways in which the Palestinians rights are regularly infringed by Israeli security forces.