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Extremely unfun fact: Israel is holding hundreds if not thousands of times as many innocent civilians hostage as Hamas on trumped up charges if any, routinely torturing them physically, mentally, and sexually.
So you can take your Hasbara gaslighting deflection and shove it.
We're not morons. We don't have to pretend that people held by Israel are universally innocent. I'm sure there's an innocence rate just like any justice system; but a significant portion of those people did criminal things.
Not convinced based on your conduct so far or the fact that you return to the scene of your humiliation two days later when everyone else has moved on from the conversation.
We don't have to pretend that they're universally guilty and deserving of all abuse, though. The IDF torturers do, though.
Prove it, then. Don't just torture people who you don't know to be guilty or attack military police trying to question torturers
Even if they WERE all guilty, torture would still be cruel and dehumanizing treatment that is never acceptable under any circumstances.
So take hostages is your conclusion?
No.
Yet here you are equivocating.
Nope, that's all you. You're the only one arguing that either the fascist apartheid regime or the terrorist organization also oppressing Palestinians must be in the right. The world isn't binary like that.