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Originally Posted by Adder
No, and if we can't deal with reality nothing will ever change. A massive, horrific terrorist attack is not the state rounding up and exterminating a subset of its civilian population.
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This is also a problematic generalization. Israel is not exterminating anyone. Israel is responding to a terrorist attack coordinated and run by the governing body of Gaza.
The attack involved well financed zealots, many given by Hamas a form of speed available in the Middle East (look it up), who sexually molested, murdered, and mutilated the corpses of kibbutz dwellers who were doing nothing to anyone. In one instance, they removed a man's penis and shoved it in his mouth. They raped women in front their husbands. Gleefully. They sent texts to relatives in Gaza joyously recounting their adventures.
You might argue that this was all precipitated by Israel's treatment of the Gazans. Well, that treatment was allowing Gazans to work in Israel. Prior to 10/7, peaceful Gazans worked in Israel. Unlike Jordan and Egypt, which does not allow them over the border.
Had Gaza sent rockets into Israel, fine. That's just warfare of the typical kind. Adversaries being adversaries. But this was wildly disproportionate. Ghoulish, inhumane. And this whole time, the Iran backed billionaire leaders of the attack, from their luxury hotels in Doha, awaited the reprisal, which they knew would cost thousands of innocent Gazans their lives.
Hamas knowingly, intentionally, murdered thousands of its own and Israelis for the sole purpose of derailing a Middle East peace accord between the Saudis and Israel which would marginalize the Iranian regime's power.
That's not up for argument.
To suggest Israel is somehow at fault for provoking such barbarity is the craziest form of victim blaming imaginable. Could Israel conduct the response perhaps less aggressively? Maybe. We can argue about that. But to call it an extermination is nuts, and to lay that at Israel's feet is even crazier. The "exterminator" of Palestinians in Gaza, if there is one, is Hamas. This is what Hamas wanted. Because Hamas does not care about Israeli or Palestinian lives. They're cannon fodder. Hamas serves Tehran, and its managers, who've lived lavishly through all of this. None of this was done to avenge anything. It was done to save Iran's ass.
(As an aside, if there's one thing I hope to live to see, it will be the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran. And the slow drop hangings of all those in charge in the streets.)
