Nope. Israel has every right to defend itself. It’s not the Israeli government’s fault that Hamas refuses to evacuate their own people, preferring to use them as human shields instead. Hamas has had every chance in the world to cooperate, but instead of doing what’s best for the people they claim to protect, they’re hell-bent on making Israel out to be the bad guy. And if that means murdering their own people and blaming it on Israel, then so be it. What do you expect from genocidal terrorists?
JY: You repeat the publicly approved talking points very well: “Israel has a right to defend herself”, “Hamas only sees its own people as human shields”, and so on. Cable news has done a great job programming you.
The reality: The Palestinian people live under a cruel occupation, with every horror that accompanies such, and the situation in Gaza has, for a generation, been equal to the suffering that Jews endured under the Nazis in the Warsaw ghettos.
What happened on October 7th was as outrageous as it was inevitable. No one can claim that Israel, which has entirely abandoned peace in favor of apartheid, did not make its own bed.
But of course, YOUR argument is that the Palestinians also made their own bed, by refusing to live happily under an Israeli boot. Because of the actions of Hamas (you surely believe) it is only fair that millions of civilians must now become refugees twice over in their own homeland, with whole cities laid to waste, so that Israel’s naive middle class boomers can return to holding boogie woogie music festivals in the shadow of the ruins of Gaza.
But we are all now getting an education in exactly the character of the “good” Israeli’s for whom we are supposed to have sympathy, and seeing the misery that they are happy to inflict on Palestinians every other day of the year while Americans keep their eyes closed. We have seen Israel bomb absolutely every building it can annihilate: schools, bakeries, refugee camps, and hospital after hospital. We have seen them snipe old women at Christian churches (surely they were Hamas terrorists!), we have seen them cut down THEIR OWN PEOPLE who were waving a white flag, trying to return to the IDF’s loving embrace! Meanwhile, settler terrorism in the West Bank, abetted by the IDF, continues apace.
Jews have a tragic recent history, but the Israelis are not a noble people. They are savagely racist, governed by a coalition of right wing thugs and parasitic ultra religious zealots, and they justify their own crimes by cynically masturbating their national PTSD in front of the world like camwhores. They are the kind of “friend” we all can do without.
The IDF and Netanyahu are a bigger threat to Israel’s long-term survival than Hamas.
‘Israel has a right to defend itself’ – too bad that’s not what it’s doing. This is in fact the same excuse the Nazis gave for the Holocaust, that Germany was defending itself.
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Nope. Israel has every right to defend itself. It’s not the Israeli government’s fault that Hamas refuses to evacuate their own people, preferring to use them as human shields instead. Hamas has had every chance in the world to cooperate, but instead of doing what’s best for the people they claim to protect, they’re hell-bent on making Israel out to be the bad guy. And if that means murdering their own people and blaming it on Israel, then so be it. What do you expect from genocidal terrorists?
JY: You repeat the publicly approved talking points very well: “Israel has a right to defend herself”, “Hamas only sees its own people as human shields”, and so on. Cable news has done a great job programming you.
The reality: The Palestinian people live under a cruel occupation, with every horror that accompanies such, and the situation in Gaza has, for a generation, been equal to the suffering that Jews endured under the Nazis in the Warsaw ghettos.
What happened on October 7th was as outrageous as it was inevitable. No one can claim that Israel, which has entirely abandoned peace in favor of apartheid, did not make its own bed.
But of course, YOUR argument is that the Palestinians also made their own bed, by refusing to live happily under an Israeli boot. Because of the actions of Hamas (you surely believe) it is only fair that millions of civilians must now become refugees twice over in their own homeland, with whole cities laid to waste, so that Israel’s naive middle class boomers can return to holding boogie woogie music festivals in the shadow of the ruins of Gaza.
But we are all now getting an education in exactly the character of the “good” Israeli’s for whom we are supposed to have sympathy, and seeing the misery that they are happy to inflict on Palestinians every other day of the year while Americans keep their eyes closed. We have seen Israel bomb absolutely every building it can annihilate: schools, bakeries, refugee camps, and hospital after hospital. We have seen them snipe old women at Christian churches (surely they were Hamas terrorists!), we have seen them cut down THEIR OWN PEOPLE who were waving a white flag, trying to return to the IDF’s loving embrace! Meanwhile, settler terrorism in the West Bank, abetted by the IDF, continues apace.
Jews have a tragic recent history, but the Israelis are not a noble people. They are savagely racist, governed by a coalition of right wing thugs and parasitic ultra religious zealots, and they justify their own crimes by cynically masturbating their national PTSD in front of the world like camwhores. They are the kind of “friend” we all can do without.
The IDF and Netanyahu are a bigger threat to Israel’s long-term survival than Hamas.
‘Israel has a right to defend itself’ – too bad that’s not what it’s doing. This is in fact the same excuse the Nazis gave for the Holocaust, that Germany was defending itself.