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Here is a thought. Set a 60 second timer, see how fast you can reach a shelter within that timer. Now imagine that at the end of the timer rockets may or may not strike your home or your family's home. Are okay with that? Remember that 60 second timer can go off at any moment, including your commute to work.
That's what you're calling an "idle threat" that Israelis are presented with constantly.
Read the comment that I'm replying to. The idea that there's a threat to the state of Israel in its entirety is a fantasy. It's basically used to have Israel do anything with immunity. Israel can eradicate the region if it wants to, Hamas does few harms here and there. Israel kills thousands and thousands and Hamas takes years to do any damage and it gets talked about forever. You talk about 60 second timers and shelters, Palestinians have no timers and no shelters just people and children dying left and right. There's certainty antisemitism on that side but there are also some anti Arabic sentiments. Haven't you seen the Israelis that shout "the only good Arab is a dead Arab" and how they are gonna murder every single Arab they can find? There are videos of this way before any Hamas attacks.
This comment is so oblivious to the actual situation and is so full of lies that's its not worth addressing. Clearly you value some lives more than others and enforce that belief with lies.
Which bit was a lie?
The bits that contradict their pro-genocide gaslighting, I bet.
Nearly thought you were intelligently giving a point of view of the Palestinian civilians currently under fire from their fascist neighbors.
That was a close one huh
Why, did someone in Gaza do something to Israel?
That's more warning than Americans get when some rando decides to shoot up a shopping mall....or a school...or a sports stadium...or the highway on the commute to work. As if no one else in the world is subject to that kind of threat....
There is no government on earth the US would allow to exist if it regularly sent terrorists into schools, sports stadiums, or highways on the commute to work.
So yes, great analogy.
Lol.