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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

No there are not, this has been ongoing for decades and decades. Things would not have magically improved, it would have continued to be a slow death sentence whilst the world ignored it.

What Hamas did, no matter how tragic, has done more to bring light and international support to the plight of the Palestinian peoples and exposed Israel as the monster it is than anything else ever has.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

That didn't worth it in my opinion. The level of international support is nowhere enough. And again, they could build defenses to decrease the number of victims.

Also the premise of "Israel is a monster" sentiment is hugely weakened by the monstrosity of the October attack itself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No it's not. More than one side can be monstrous in a conflict. "Yeah well but they did X so it's okay that we did Y" is bible level reasoning aka no reasoning and pretty much what is causing the whole thing anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I didn't mean to say anything that Israel did was okay. But a lot of it is understandable, e.g. the ground operation was very well expected by everyone when it became clear the hostages are not getting released. No matter how you look at it, Gaza was not ready.

And if we consider the October attack itself, only some of it is understandable ("they couldn't bear with oppression any longer" sentiment, which itself is problematic at best).

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