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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

Nah, I'm not impressed by the unscripted remarks of a few extremist members of the Israeli government, most especially when that rhetoric does not match the facts on the ground.

This war is about protecting Israel from an existential threat. Israel is deserving of that protection because it is a democracy. It's really as simple as that. The Palestinian people have had 100 years to stop deploying terrorism as a method of achieving political ends and they have utterly failed. After October 7, enough is enough.

I never once said anything about any civilians deserving this fate. However, it is not Israel that put them there. It is Hamas. Period.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, because it's absolutelly normal everywhere in the world for government ministers to deem a whole etnicity "human animals" and suggest nuking a neighbouring enclave and not be kicked out of that government before the day is over.

Also the idea that a country with fighter jets, tanks and even nukes is under extential threat from a bunch of murders from with homemade rockets from a neighbouring country whose land they've been stealing for over half a century, would already be unbelieveable in the story of a Fantasy book, but trying to pass that as reality is really taking the piss out of everybody else.

Go pull the other one.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It seems like you don't know enough about this conflict to really have an opinion.

The existential threat would be the organized and internationally funded terrorist organization operating with impunity within Israel's borders under the ideology of Islamic Jihad.

The terrorists here are also supported by Iran.

Whatever hope Palestine may have had for a Tuesday solution ended on October 7 when when Hamas sold out its people and its country in order to do 1,200 murders.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You mean the organization that Israel influenced the creation of through decades of mistreatment and mishandling of the situation? The same one Israel is on record saying it's a good thing as it allows Israel to treat Palestine as a hostile state? Basically exactly what they're doing now, killing anyone and everyone and just shrugging and saying "because hamas"?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

"Israel is on record"? It's a country. A democracy at that, inherently made up of conflicting points of view and coalitions.

1% of the population dead = "killing anyone and everyone."

You sound hysterical and emotional.

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