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      Netanyahu: Hamas is a terrorist organization that wants to eliminate the Jewish nation

      Hamas: yeah he’s right

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        That’s why Nethanyahu funded them.

        All his investments paid off in this neat little casus belli.

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          He allowed Hamas to be funded but it’s still horrific the hand he had in making this monster. He allowed Hamas to grow so it would fight those looking to negotiate toward a two-state solution.

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      Netanyahu does not state that killing of civilians is his goal, nor does IDF purposely do that. Imagine the amount of civilian deaths if it were actually IDF’s goal, as it is for Hamas.

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          “When he came of age for conscription into the Israel Defense Forces at 18, he was exempted from service by the IDF due to his extreme-right political background.”

          What a guy. I thought militaries (and police) love those people.

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            Israeli military is not for volunteers, it’s for everyone. The top ranking generals and chiefs of staff were prominent against Netanyahu and this extremist incompetent government. They are also said that human rights activists that give a voice to solders that saw atrocious acts of the idf itself. This is not the norm, contrary to what the media would have you think. This, according to the top ranking Israeli ex officers, is how the idf should fix its wrongs.

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            They bombed a refugee camp. Twice.

            If I were a military commander in WW2 with the same technology we have today, and Hitler was out in the open at an elementary school graduation next to a preschool, I would not make that order. Instead, I’d mobilize intelligence agents to get there immediately and tail him, while moving my forces nearby.

            I find it hard to believe that Israeli military and intelligence agencies could not track him and wait. The IDF just cares more about their own skin than they do of Palestinian children.

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              It took the US 10 years to track down Bin Laden, all the while he was still communicating with cells. In your example that is a LOT of quality holocaust time for Hitler.

              There is no easy way out of the trolley problem of slippery genocidal targets popping up with a limited time window to execute.

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        This is an important distinction in my opinion. Does the IDF care if they kill palestinian civilians? No. But they aren’t actively trying to murder as many palestinian civilians as they can either.

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          Being so incredibly nonchalant about killing civilians as the IDF is it’s almost an insignificant difference imo.

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            How should I know. What I do know however is that if the IDF wanted, they could kill many more Gazans.

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              Seriously look at their actions and decide for yourself whether or not they are going out of their way to kill civilians or whether they are so careless they kill anyone on their way

              The idea that the IDF would have to beat Gaza into a pulp so we can finally admit to ourselves that they don’t care about civilians is weak, not to mention a logical fallacy. This isn’t the indication to look for when war crimes happen. It’s the actions of the IDF themselves.

              Just look at all the times Israel told civilians to move to one place them bombed the shit out of the place.

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              Maybe they just want plausible deniability more than they want immediate genocide. It sure looks to me like that’s what they’re doing, and that it’s working.

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            Because Hamas has used it as a base for decades…

            Just like every other piece of civilian infrastructure.

            You say Jabalia like it hasn’t been a city since the 40s. It’s not some tent city. It’s a legitimate city that has been around for decades, which Hamas only took control of after 2007.

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              Yes totally, that is enough excuse to shoot dead over a hundred people and wound hundreds more.

              Tents or not, you’re basically saying Israel bombed a crowded area and I’m afraid they are losing this one in the media. 😊

              It’s a refugee camp because people who live there are more victims of Israeli displacement.

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                It’s not a refugee camp at all. It’s a city that has existed for almost a century.

                You can cheer for Hamas. Your emojis don’t mean shit lol. Nobody else supports them. Even “the media” (you sound like my drug addicted religious dad here).

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                  First, I didn’t cheer for Hamas.

                  Also, That area is still a refugee camp. You are confusing Jabalia city with the Jabalia refugee camp.. It’s okay to be wrong, you just have to admit it to yourself.

                  And the very fact that somehow bombing people taking refuge in a city rather than a refigee camp is something you needed to point out as though that changes anything … That’s very telling.

                  And lastly, Israel is losing the media war. 😊 It’s not sustainable to kill more people and get away with it, not when even holocaust historians are alarmed at the Israeli rhetoric and massacre it keeps committing on a daily basis.

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            Jabalia refugee camp consists of an area that is 1,4 km2. It had a registered population of about 50 000 inhabitants in 2017, who knows how much these days. It’s not exactly a small place, even if the term “refugee camp” might give that image.

            So who knows. Perhaps they’re just murdering civilians, or perhaps a place like that is a perfect breeding ground for extremism.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabalia_refugee_camp

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              Exactly. Israel bombed a giant refugee camp. How is this helping Israel’s case?

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                I dunno, as – believe it or not – I’m not part of IDF. But you can of course wonder: are they fighting a popularity war or an actual one?

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                  Well, I, for one, hope that the IDF is finally fucking losing the popularity war. Until the US stops propping them up no matter what, they have no incentive to seriously work towards peace.

                  If they were fighting an actual war, then the leaders of Israel would be pulled into the ICC for war crimes.

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    They’re not doing their supporters any favours with these sort of comments lol

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      It’s easy to support Palestinian statehood. Anyone that supports Hamas is a moron.

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            Fucking deranged tankies man, their Lord and Savior Hasan Abi has been going off about how “baby settlers” are valid military targets. These people yearn to live under a propaganda-military dictatorship.

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          Bro like literally 90% of Lemmy has a throbbing boner for Hamas and his stated antisemitic terrorists, even in this thread, terrorists apologizers abound

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            Weird that as a Jew who is pretty damn sensitive to antisemitism since I faced a lot of it growing up in religious Indiana, I haven’t noticed this support for antisemitic terrorists on Lemmy. I’ve seen a lot of support for innocent people being slaughtered because of Israel’s response to antisemitic terrorists, but that’s a separate issue.

            People in the U.S. protested the war in Afghanistan. Does that mean they supported Al Qaeda? Because this is some real “you’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists” thinking from my perspective.

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        Considering Hamas is the organization governing Gaza right now, the two are often intertwined in these discussions

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            Under any solution (one or two state), Hamas will be the ones in power and representing the Palestinian block. Doesn’t matter if they do a good job of it or not.

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                They are the de facto (and kind of de jure…) government of Gaza. Hell, they run the Health Ministry that provides a lot of the updates.

                If this somehow ends with anything short of further subjugation and/or eradication, they will be “heroes”. And they aren’t going to lessen their hold on the Palestinian people.

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                  They were also very unpopular before Oct 7 and I doubt they’ve gotten any more popular since then.

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          It seems to me that Hamas “governs” Palestine the same way groups like the Mafia or Yakuza “govern” the people they extort.

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              Almost 20 years ago, when the majority of Palestinians alive today were either too young to vote or hadn’t even been born. How long after an election do you assume elected leaders have any real mandate?

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                My point was that regardless of their ability to do it, they were at one time the elected officials of the geographic location known as Gaza. They’re obviously not a real government in policy and action, but they’re the only thing that exists to even bear the term or concept of governance in the area.

                There is no other group to be considered as the government, no matter how awful Hamas is at being a government of any variety.

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                  At one time, yes, but I don’t think we should be holding the Palestinians today to that. That would be like the Dubya era. If he had kept office until now, he would certainly not represent the opinion of Americans.

                  Hamas is embedded like a parasite, but there’s better ways to point this out.

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                  When their “leaders” don’t represent them? Never. Same reason I don’t hate on Israelis.

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              Like over a decade ago but they havent held elections since. I’ve seen countering articles saying Hamas has overwhelming support by the people, vs actually Hamas murders anyone who goes against them. So who knows. Fog of war and all that.

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                actually Hamas murders anyone who goes against them

                Well that would result in them having overwhelming support, among the survivors that is.

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      They shouldn’t have any fucking supporters. This is the shit all the anti-Israel people are supporting. I’m no fan of Netanyahu but wtf do they expect Israel to do? It’s like everyone forgot what prompted this and thinks Israel just woke up one morning and decided to raze everything because they were bored.

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        I’m no fan of Netanyahu but wtf do they expect Israel to do?

        I expect them not to commit war crimes at a bare minimum.

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        Are you suggesting that when Israel bombs a refugee camp and kills all those innocent people that somehow that is a reasonable response?

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          It’s a disproportionate response, and misdirected. But it is definitely a response to something real, which the more rabid anti-Israel types seem to gloss over.

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          Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

          What did you expect? Do you think that hitting a wasp nest with a rod just once means you’ll only be stung once because you only hit it once? There’s no rule stating that the wasps must respond with equal magnitude. If people are now getting hurt, it’s because someone provoked the wasps. The notion that reactions must be proportionate to the offense is quite naive.

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            Idk what’s more hilarious here, the implication that a Palestinian baby deserves to die because of what Hamas did or the implication that Jews are hyperaggressive animals that are completely incapable of moral reasoning.

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              Are you focusing solely on the casualties involving children? Does that mean any location with children is off-limits for retaliation, providing a shield for adversaries because children are present? This is not a simple game of hide and seek, nor is it your idealistic world where a slap is met with a turned cheek.

              It’s a common misconception that supporters of Israel are indifferent to the death of children or any civilian, for that matter, and you seem to be perpetuating this narrative. You choose the most objectionable point about an opponent to make an accusation, and, much like someone obstinately arguing without listening to reason, you consider yourself morally superior and in the right.

              What, in your opinion, would be a suitable response to an attack from Hamas? Would peaceful protests, international condemnation, or sanctions suffice?

              If you’ve discarded your spine, don’t assume everyone else has done the same. An entity without the ability to react appropriately can only succumb.

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            If I get stung by a wasp nest sitting on my neighbor’s house, I do not have the right to burn down my neighbor’s house with them in it.

            Hamas, the IDF, and the Israeli are all murderers. They all have blood on their hands.

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              Your narrative would hold if it weren’t flawed; it’s an oversimplification. Let’s take your perspective where Hamas is the bees that stung Israel, and now Israel is retaliating against the land harboring the bee nest. (I use ‘bees’ here to distinguish from my earlier wasp analogy).

              If your neighbor disliked the bees as much as you and agreed the nest was a problem, then certainly, destroying it with care to avoid collateral damage would be wise. However, the situation changes if your neighbor is a beekeeper who shields the bees in his home to protect them from you. If those bees become aggressive and harm your family, naturally, you’d first request the neighbor to remove the bees. Should they refuse, you’d have every right to seek external help. But what if the authorities do little, leaving you to suffer the stings while your neighbor faces minimal consequences? Rather than passively endure this, you might feel compelled to act independently to prevent future stings and deter the beekeeper from maintaining this threat.

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                Bullshit.

                No government nor military should not get a carte blanche for murdering innocent civilians in the process of fighting a terrorist organization.

                If you can’t figure that one out on your own, I’m not debating with you.

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                  Okay, then let’s hypothetically say Israel forms a terrorist organization that doesn’t overlap with the Israeli government itself, would they then have the right to attack Gaza? This organization would essentially be in the same position relative to Israel as Hamas is to the Palestinians.

                  The way you debate reminds me of someone who might have abandoned their education prematurely. Are you going to complain to the teacher because you cannot acknowledge that your reasoning is flawed, incomplete, and biased? Your approach to this discussion is quite frankly, absurd.

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          These fuckers kidnapped US citizens, they deserve 100% of whatever bombs we throw at them until our people are freed.

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        being both anti-israel and anti-hamas at the same time is the only correct position i don’t understand why this isn’t obvious

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          Because Hamas is the only resistance Palestinians have against the colonizer.

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            it isn’t, actually. they have a government with a prime minister and a president which oppose hamas and which netanyahu wants nobody to pay attention to because they are the legitimate path to statehood

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              Well then Netanyahu is doing a great job because I heard that Hamas was elected by the palestinians and I never heard about another Palestinian government.

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                it was elected a long time ago and since then they have fallen out of favor and there was never an election again

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        What prompted this? You mean the decades of occupation? Or are you suggesting history only began with the Hamas attack?

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        You just gotta take that line of thought one step further. I believe in you.

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        Well, that not totally incorrect. The settlers starting moving in (before the nation was a thing) and started killing and displacing the existing inhabitants. It’s been bad from the start, though they have had periods that are better than others. People excuse Israel for what Hamas has done, but rarely do those same people forgive Hamas for what the Jewish settlers have done.

        Personally, I don’t make a judgment on Hamas. They are a much weaker force against a much stronger force. If they fight a conventional war then they don’t stand a chance. Gorilla warfare/terrorism is the only viable option for them. Israel uses terrorism every day, but it’s only bad when Hamas does it?

        I do judge Israel. They are a strong force, and more importantly are getting support from many other powerful nations. Until my country (the US) stops sending support, I will criticize their actions. I do not condone my money going towards what they do.

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      Not to condone their actions, but what would Hamas care about getting supporters? Palestine situation hasn’t been helped much at all by international supporters, so it’s not like they care about that.

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        The two are linked together. When aid has been sent to Palestine, to help Palestinians, Hamas has taken it for themselves. There was an EU project I believe to build water infrastructure, and Hamas took it apart to make into rockets.

        I don’t think it’s possible to provide material support to the Palestinians. Hamas just takes it all. It’s so fucked.

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        Palestine is dependent on foreign aid to continue its war fighting. Specifically aid from western nations. They need supporters to feed, fuel and supply it’s military and populace.

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        Might make people less happy to support pummeling them if they weren’t acting like such villains

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        Yeah why would they use civilians as human shields to gather the physical and online support of the easily misled and swayed masses of the west

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        Not to condone their actions, but what would Hamas care about getting supporters?

        For one, all the Hamas supporters are asking the US to tell Israel to stop attacking them.

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    A senior member of Hamas has hailed the systematic slaughter of civilians in Israel

    When asked whether this meant the complete annihilation of Israel, Hamas replied: “Yes, of course.”

    who still thinks hamas are the good guys?

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      If you’re coming to any international conflict, but specially to this one, from a “good guys/bad guys” framework you’re absolutely not helping.

      Sometimes (a lot of times, sadly) all you get in a particular issue is just assholes all the way down. Unsurprisingly, deadly military conflicts where both sides have proven at best a callous disregard for civilian casualties practically requires the asshole pile to be expansive and thorough.

      The question is how you get the endless, writhing mass of assholes to stop. Which isn’t looking great right now.

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        More like they get accused of doing so even though their comment didn’t mention Hamas and they were talking about Palestinian rights, and somewhere someone pops up telling them they sympathize with Hamas.

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        Lemmy users: why has Israel intentionally killed 3500+ children in such a short time?

        People that support/ignore genocide like Shardikprime: why do you support Hamas?

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      I made the mistake of commenting on this post where people clearly think that the Hamas are the good guys and have every right to do what they do. Apologies for linking to it.

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        Of course if you go to tankie central you get tankies. They’re also acting like Putin didn’t order the shelling and capture of Ukrainian cities and it’s all just (insert kremlin talking point here).

        They are a specific niche of political mind. The kind that only thinks western nations are capable of propaganda and evil. Don’t take them as representative of smarter people.

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          Bro even in the world news and the news instance they are all over Hamas. If they could, they would give him a BJ

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          Yeah, I shouldn’t have commented. That post ended up in my hot/all feed and I didn’t really look at the community. I was frankly quite confused as to what’s up with these people until I saw the upvoted Russian propaganda comment which cleared things up quite a bit.

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          I think one of my neighbors is a tankie, his car is really big.

          Edit: Found this, The Useful Idiots”: How Activists Spread Marxism Across America

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      Nobody said they were.

      edit: okay crazy people on a lemmygrad site said they were. But that page that guy linked looked about as nice as a 4chan site…

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        Somebody told me recently on here that “Hamas is facing a genocide” apparently without any sort of irony or remorse.

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        Considering I’ve been banned from World News at even suggesting reality in regards to how militaries fight in such conflicts…

        Yeah, even mods are ban happy regarding Israel/Palestine lol.

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      Tactically their October 7 attack was incredibly silly, honestly what did they think would happen?

      They gave Netanyahu, who was finally fumbling at the reigns after almost thirty years aan excuse to execute his wet dreams and all of Israel uniting behind him.

      I see no way how they could have thought the attack would benefit their cause.

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      This is an 100 year conflict, all the good guys are dead.

      Why do people feel this need to be good/bad. Everybody knows by now how complex is the middle east

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        You must be reading a very different slice of the fediverse than I am. I’ve been blocking Nazis, tankies, and other assorted idiots on sight since I started using Lemmy, and I’ve seen maybe a handful of people saying things that could be interpreted as supporting Hamas. They are vastly outnumbered by people decrying the slaughter of civilians and apologists for Israel.

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        My impression is that at least half of fediverse.

        I got that impression too, and the fediverse has lost a lot of its shine recently. People are rushing to say that they support “both sides” and Israel can defend itself… but just not in any way that would be able to stop another attack like October’s from happening. It feels like a lot of people just want to side with Hamas, but don’t want to actually say that out loud.

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          They aren’t going about this in a way that stops this from happening is the problem. You’re so wrapped up in the Zionist narrative that they’ve tricked you into thinking extermination is the final solution.

          Britain didn’t get rid of the IRA by bombing and blockading Ireland. There was no ground invasion despite thousands dying in bombings and other violence.

          The fact is that the attack in October and others like it happen because the extreme Zionists like Likud have taken steps to ensure this. Because they’re creating a situation where they can be horrifically brutal but hide behind good pr narratives. They literally propped up Hamas at its inception with the stated goal of fracturing Fatah which was a moderate party suing for a two state solution.

          As long as Israel keeps killing Palestinians in the West Bank where there IS NO HAMAS, they will keep driving support for any group that resists Israel.

          You can get far more innocent civilians on your side if you treat them better than Hamas. Knowing everything we know about how Hamas treats them should tell you just how bad Israel treats them on top of that.

          You stop this by removing the war mongers from power first and foremost. As long as Netanyahu’s party has control there can never be peace. Because like Hamas, they want a one state solution too.

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          It’s been a very eye-opening experience over the past month to see just how little the left cares about victims of violence if they happen to be Jewish.

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            As someone on the left, I can’t exactly disagree. When there’s violence against Jews, some people constantly bring up Israel. They respond to a story about antisemitism being on the rise by saying criticism of Israel isn’t antisemitism. And it’s ironic, because by saying that about antisemitic attacks, they’re the ones confusing the two.

            This needs to be pointed out to them more often. I don’t think most of them realize it.

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              Nah. Don’t let the current situation fool you. You’ve seen that I’m very pro-Israel in my other comments. But there are many of us that are lefties through and through. I mean most Jews in the US lean slightly left of the democrats. I lean further. And David ben Gurion was super leftist. Hardcore socialist commie pinko, that one. If I had been around for the founding of Israel, I’d probably have been kicking back on a kibbutz somewhere.

              But the right is definitely not our friend. Most of them support Israel for christo-fascist dreams of the apocalypse. They want to use us. And we should be careful to think that we are the ones using them.

              I do not know where you are from, but especially concerning the US and Europe, I do think it’s important to understand where this support comes from – even if they don’t actually know it either. It’s the underdog problem. Israel is much stronger than in the past. We have won many wars against people who wished to murder us all. We became a force to be reckoned with. And the Palestinian territories are the underdog. And the left has normalized seeing the underdog as the marginalized victim. They are not used to seeing an underdog victimizer. From South Africa to Ireland to PoCs and the LGBT+ communities, they are used to things going one way. And things are not one way. There is a whole 3d plane of possibilities in this world. And that’s why I argue more about Israel than anything else on here. To try to help people see that things are not black and white. This isn’t a left or right issue. This isn’t a David vs Goliath issue. This is something that cannot be boiled down to simple concepts or comparisons. And the more you know, the harder it really is to if not agree with what Israel is doing, to at least understand why they might make the choices they do. And it is not for the sole purpose of ethnic cleansing or genocide. At least not for the majority.

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      Piece of shit, pouring oil onto fire while the civilians are getting slaughtered at this point on both sides. If there is hell, this one should burn.

      Edit: I’ve never seen anyone defend Hamas, only civilian Palestinians. Just to make that clear distinction.

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        Bro you merely have to look at this thread and the weekly world news/news threads to see leftists terrorist apologizers

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          That’s why I’m trying to limit my time here, but I also just want to follow the news and see some cat pics.

          Best thing to do is condemn terrorist Hamas on the one side and Netanyahu/IDF/extremist settlers that harass West bank palestinians on the other side.

          And pray for the Jewish and Palestinian civilians. Because they are the ones suffering.

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          I still don’t understand what’s so hard about condemning antisemitism and giving them the boot. You can’t truly be left wing, at least socially, if you aren’t making it clear bigots aren’t welcome.

          We’ve come full circle now too – they’ve mixed up criticism of Israel and antisemitism.

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      Hamas killed 1400 civilians.

      The IDF has killed about 9500 civilians so far.

      I dunno, I think that Hamas may not be the good guys, but they’re definitely the less bad guys.

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        Give hamas same weaponry and intel as profoundly shit as IDF and israel might as well be one big crater

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          Okay, but they don’t. And they likely never will.

          Right now it’s like a 6yo child that punches you as hard as they can in the balls, and you respond by beating the fuck out of them with a tire iron. The fact that you could straight-up murder the child by shooting them in the fucking face doesn’t mean that breaking every bone in their hands along with both legs to “teach them a lesson” would be appropriate or proportionate.

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            For sure, but that wasn’t really my point, which was intentions and goals. Hamas is not a “good guy” since they will take every chance of murdering and kidnapping israeli citizens if it’s by high-precision missiles or fucking gliders straight out of a comic book, and israelis aren’t the “good guys” for barraging palestinian civvies while taking tiktoks.

            I feel vile for all this good guys bad guys rhetoric ffs gotta take a showa

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              Oh, I’m not saying that Hamas is good guys. They’re not. They’re terrorists.

              But by the scope and scale, by the amount of force that they’re able to bring to bear, and by the sheer number of non-combatants being killed, the IDF is far, far worse. Hamas targeted civilians on purpose, the IDF is simply indiscriminate.

              The Allied forces utilized the tactics of total-war during WWII, with things like the firebombing of Dresden, or Tokyo. The idea was to break the will of the people to fight. Well, spoiler: it doesn’t work. When you kill someone’s whole family, their friends, blow up their house and community, they end up having an even stronger desire to fight back. Just like the bombings of London by Germany increased the resolve of Britons, so did the indiscriminate massacre of civilians by the Allies increase the resolve of the Germans.

              The actions of the IDF are going to give Hamas it’s next generation of fighters, people willing to die to kill Israel.

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                Hamas targeted civilians on purpose, the IDF is simply indiscriminate.

                I think the former is way worse. Besides, there’s no point in debating this. They’re both horrible. Agreed? Then let’s move on.

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              Israel did knowingly bomb a refugee camp. Twice. Kind of hard to defend that behavior as “self defense”.

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    Well I’ve done some maths, and I’m pretty sure the IDF can kill the population of Gaza faster than Hamas can kill the population of Israel.

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      That’s exactly what Hamas wants to see because that’s what gets Israeli to lose international support and prompts Arab nations to invade.

      They don’t give a shit about the Palestinian people.

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        Not lost them a lot of international support so far, I’ll be honest.

        While they may still be reeling from the loss of Bolivia, the people they do business with on a daily basis have picked their sides and stuck to it.

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      So, just to be clear, you’re saying that the attack against Israel was actually a secret Jewish conspiracy to make Hamas look bad?

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        More like a way to give Israel a casus belli to turn Gaza into a parking lot.

        Not saying that’s what happened, but as far as theofascist stayed go I wouldn’t be surprised

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          Didn’t Netanyahu prop up Hamas? That’s all the info I need to know. That and one conversation with a Zionist, they are out of their mind and will straight up say that Palestinians don’t deserve to live. That conversation was over a decade ago and it still gives me the creepy crawlys… it was like talking to a proud Nazi that firmly believed in his ideology.

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            Zionists fall under the category of most religious extremeist- stupid and dangerous. If we could drop all zionists in a hunger games scenario with all members of hamas, maybe throw the Catholic Church in there too.

            Except nobody wins we just burn it down when they’re done killing each other like they’re going to do anyway.

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          Yes. Repeatedly and constantly. It’s the rallying cry of the morons. Reality doesn’t fit my worldview so it’s reality that’s wrong!