03-02-2024, 09:30 PM
That's always been the case. Hamas puts military equipment in a civilian building. Israel gives warning that they are going to blow up the civilian building so that the civilians can get out of the building first. Hamas blocks the civilians from leaving the building. Israel bombs the building. Hamas uses the civilian deaths as propaganda to get more aid from Iran and arab countries. This is all well documented as far as I can tell, pretty sure Max Blumenthal admits this happens.
You know how when you defend Trump to people on the left because they are lying about him, and even though you don't like Trump that much because he's not libertarian they keep saying "why do you keep defending Trump?" and you're like, well, because you keep lying about him..
This is sorta how I feel in this situation. I'm not stoked on Israel, I think they are far from perfect. But judging by their actions, they are a lot better than Hamas. I certainly feel for the civilians in Palestine, especially if they don't back Hamas. But most of them are mentally broken.
I used to be more pro-Palestine, the whole "open air prison" thing.. But seriously.. Gaza has a border with Egypt and the ocean. Israel isn't trapping them in there. They have boats.. If they wanted, decades ago, they could have become a paradise and setup themselves up as a really nice travel destination right on the coast and made bank. If they had been peaceful, a lot of that travel money could have come from Israeli's. Use the money for education and develop a tech sector. Create a population of mentally healthy individuals and other countries would want some of them to migrate. Instead they decided to be rabidly Muslim and anti-Israel.
Most of the people in Israel have lived there their whole lives, it isn't their fault either, you can't make them leave. They also can't share a state with people who want them all dead. A lot of Palestinians travel back and forth between Israel and Palestine, but a lot of them want Israel stamped out. Israel is such a small territory, if you look on a map, I say let them have it.
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