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When one side is committing genocide and the other side wants no genocide, you don't pick the middle and support half-genocide.
More accurate would be "Committing genocide" and "Wants to commit genocide but doesn't have the guns", with the majority of the actual population on both sides (rather than the politicians and emboldened extremists) just wanting to not be genocided. Personally I'm picking the "chuck the politicians in a hole and let the people live" option. No idea what the ideal solution looks like but I feel like getting the fascists and religious extremists on both sides out of the equation would be a good starting point
Hamas wouldn't exist if Israel didn't commit genocide. You can't win a war on terror. You can stop "terrorists" without hurting a single person though.
Hamas would not exist if Israel didn't, it's true, but the opposition to Israel did not originally come from genocide, Israel was attacked almost immediately upon its foundation. Whether putting there was a good idea or not is debatable (well okay it was an awful idea, but one of the other places they considered was Yugoslavia, which I'm sure would have been perfectly safe!) but Hamas and their ilk did not appear in response to Israel committing genocide
It was attacked for a reason. Pretending otherwise is dishonest. The Nakba led to the attacks.
"The Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” refers to the 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were driven out of what today is Israel before and during the war surrounding its creation in 1948."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/palestinians-mark-the-nakba-the-original-catastrophe-of-mass-expulsion
Do you see the "before" in that quote? The Nakba was the cause of the attacks.
Beyond that israel was attacking the british and muslims in the area before israel became a nation-state again. This isnt the first israeli genocide in that area in service of building a new kingdom either. Its the third or fourth, depending how you count ethnic mass murders sprees of innocents as genocides. And Zealot/Zionist (Jewish far right splinter groups) terrorism has been ongoing since early Roman times at least.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish–Roman_wars
For those reasons alone, Israel should not have been granted statehood by the UN. Maybe the UN. thought giving them the state would settle the issue and the murders would stop, but the desire for ever more land shows no signs of stopping, and knows no shame or humanity.
You act like I'm defending israel. I'm not. I'm just refusing to0 defend Hamas either.
Fair enough. yes, I see in your previous comments you were thumping on @eldritch, so you are a certified good person in my book.
Yes, an Israeli government that recognizes Palestinians as people is the first step then hoping the olive branch extends to the other side
Just have to love that you get downvoted for this. Delusional people here as if Hamas would not murder them all. What they had in their constitution does not matter, because they are ignorant.
The difference is the US isn't sending billions of dollars in bombs to hamas
How many 100s of millions went into Gaza as aid every year? How much of that was actually funneled into other things? Also, aid to Gaza:
Whoops!
and $200 billion in aid to Israel since 1946, including $12 billion in direct military aid since October 7, 2023, since which date there have been 40x more palestinian deaths than israeli!
whoops indeed! everyone point and laugh at the silly goose 🫵🤣
They said bombs, not aid. Also, Israel blocks the aid you're talking about, kills aid workers, and massacres civilians seeking what little gets through.
They sent 20 billion in weapons just in August and you are talking about a quarter of that in aid over 30 years?
Centrists
You’d have to ask Netanyahu, he funded Hamas.
You conflate Hamas with Palestinians in general. Thats just dirty racism.
So we pay to bomb them and to feed them...
Have we considered not bombing them so we don't have to pay to feed them?
Except the ones getting paid to bomb them stop the food
Pretty much, yes.
Hamas isn't Palestine and Zionists aren't Israel.
I knew it would happen. Not painting Israel the the only bad guys is badwrongfun. The leadership on both sides are so far below decent people neither can see daylight - though Israel becoming fascist is more ironic, admitedly