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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't really understand what it means to side with Israel 100%. Obviously, Hamas is a bunch of terrorists and does heinous things. I don't side with Hamas at all. But Hamas is in power in Gaza not because it has widespread support among Palestinians or won free and fair elections, but in large part because Israel has weakened the Palestinian Authority over the years in a divide-and-conquer approach. This is hardly a secret. Netanyahu and Hamas have each used the other for their own ends. (And you should be fault things that Israel has done without having that construed as support for Hamas. It's really depressing how many people turn their outrage and grief into nonproductive attacks against others for not virtue-signaling in the right way.) Just as the US did with 9/11, the Hamas attacks likely will prompt an overreaction by Israel which will leave many non-combatants dead. I don't know if Hamas will survive as an organization, but there will continue to be some outlet for Palestinian nationalism, and the use of excessive force strengthens the most militant on the other side. It's great that Israel is moving towards normalized relations with a lot of Arab governments, but let's not pretend that those governments have democratic legitimacy or that their populations are invested in peace with Israel. Siding with Israel as an ally does not necessarily mean supporting the specific policies of the Israeli government.
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So, it must be horrible to be an innocent in Gaza.
But, the whole spiral started with an attempt to eliminate the Jews in Israel, maybe you’ll say it started with displacing people to create Israel? Whatever, you cannot claim there is not a goal to eliminate the country and its people, or do you?
So these monsters hide behind the innocents and every so often go do things that are so horrible I can’t bring myself to look at the photos, and I objected to you deleting the Beslam photos. What would you suggest Israel do if not invade?
