Another day, another war. I don’t fully know the history of Israel and Palestine, so i won’t give definite comments on who I support or anything. However, I have seen some footage of Hamas assaults on Israel, and goddamn it is messed up. Hamas has been explicitly targeting civilians, even going as far as to bomb Israel’s music festival. They have taken numerous hostages that have not posed any threat to them, and have slaughtered numerous families, babies included. There was one clip where they shot a car’s passengers dead to get though a road gate, then stormed the house, kidnapped the family, and burned the whole place down. Not to mention, harming civilians is a literal war crime. I’m leaning more towards Israel because of all this but I’ll do some research and see what the history and motivation for this war is. Apparently Iran and Qatar are supporting Palestine too but I don’t know if they are giving direct assistance. For all those affected, stay strong. Israel has a lot more supporters, and I’m sure they’ll come on top in the end.
comments
are you in Ta’s hangout? look at my arguments in the discussion about this. The atrocities committed by Hamas (which I have not justified) are a fraction of those committed by the Israeli government (bombing children’s hospitals and shooting children regularly). it doesn’t matter what social beliefs Hamas/Iran has. you cannot oppress a group of people and prevent them from democracy/voting because if they vote or are allowed the freedoms ordinary Israelis have, they will vote badly? that’s an authoritarian, oppressive belief.
no resistance to apartheid is perfect. attacks against civilians have to be avoided, but overblowing their scale is a mechanism Israel is attempting to use to justify a violent genocide of Palestinians as a “retaliation”. not all Palestinians are members of Hamas btw and you have to understand that it is impossible for Palestinians to become free completely peacefully. they have no voting rights. i don’t hear you questioning whether the Allies in WW2 were right even though they committed war crimes.
I’m not going to get into an argument