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[–] Zippit 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Wow, no one is going to mention what Israel is doing to these people? I don't agree with terrorists, but the replies should be more nuanced than 'bad Palestines'.

In my eyes, as an outsider following the news, Israel has pushed Palestinians to the brink by killing Palestine civilians, seizing more of their land AGAIN and having a dictator for a president that just changed the constitution..

If you take people's land, your military kills children, films and laughs about it, push them into poverty, and then come for their homes... Sometimes this is the only way to say 'enough'.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the tragedy is that this goes both ways: if a group of people that just escaped a genocide, gets attacked by all its neighboring countries as soon as they have a state of their own, are explicitly threatened with extinction and are attacked over and over again by military actions and terrorist attacks... sometimes people will try to assert absolute dominance in order to try to ensure their own physical safety above everything else.

Note: I am very much not justifying any of the above. I just think that it's not very surprising that people act this way, and that Hamas & Co of course know this - just as the Israeli government & Co know how people react to their actions. In my opinion neither the Israeli government (and orthodox settlers etc.) nor the Hamas (and similar groups) are honestly trying to unfuck the situation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Rational take.

[–] assassin_aragorn 3 points 1 year ago

I wish more people could look at this like you. The violence currently ongoing in Israel is unconscionable -- no treatment can justify attacking civilians. It's just as unconscionable as Israel bombing civilians in Palestine.

Neither action is productive even in a war context. Killing civilians doesn't get you closer to your goal. It just makes your enemy even angrier and gives them righteous justification for their actions. But even that doesn't justify them killing your civilians.

Hamas and Israel's conservative government are content to keep killing innocent people -- to what end? How do they not see that it's completely unproductive to their own goals?

[–] ron209 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Come live in israel and see how is it for us. And I'm saying this as a left wing pro human rights anti settlement opposer of the current fascist government

[–] Maalus 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'm glad you oppose you fascist government. Sadly, like it is here in America, a lot of the citizens support the fascism. If you see interviews with Israelis, they often talk like Palestinians aren't even human. It's so saddening.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I think he's saying that it's like Israel is the invader, similar to Russia.