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Israel has the world's sympathy and support but if they retaliate brutally and massively that sympathy and support will shift to the Palestinians.
I think it already has.
I think it's very confused and polarized. Neither side is even remotely in the right at this point, and those who suffer have almost no agency. The only third rail here is the Israeli people. They can make the madness stop.
The civilians on both sides aren't in the right? I misunderstand you, and am being genuine here. Morality/ethics of a conflict can't just be measured and analyzed by the actions and consequences of the combatants. The people caught in the middle, whether Palestinian or Jewish are the real losers in this. War has no real victor..
They're saying the powers at play, the big boys, on both sides are fucked. The people in the middle, the civilians on either side, have no real say in what's going on, they just get slaughtered.
I find it so crazy that people can pick sides in this conflict. I don't know if there's a nation, military or people in the middle east that doesn't have the blood of thousands of innocent civilians on their hands. With how brutal every single conflict is its no wonder that the survivors feel the need to pick up arms and continue the cycle of pain and suffering
Since Israel has already killed at least twice the number of Palestine civilians than the number of Israeli citizen that were killed by Hamas, this is absolutely true.