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Gaza, an occupied open air prison surrounded by Israeli walls and gates and tanks and

planes and boats and allies in Egypt keeping Palestinians over a million Palestinians and

prisoned in Gaza.

And again, have engaged in airstrikes and Adam, we thought that because this happens,

I mean, this is an Israeli policy known unbelievably gently as mowing the lawn.

Yeah, some of these Israeli national security community have referred to that unironically,

although I don't believe it's the official state name, but yes, it is referred to colloquially

as mowing the lawn, which is to say bombing Gaza to kind of put the Palestinians in their

place every few years is the implication being that it's a form of kind of maintenance.

It's inmate maintenance for what is like you mentioned as an open air prison because

again, people in Gaza are for those who aren't quite familiar with it, they don't really

have any rights.

They can't travel.

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