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

What an odd thing to assume, why, is Hamas paying you? Is being a shill the only reason one might disagree?

[–] TokenBoomer 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Odd is defending the deaths of 30,000 people because of socially constructed religions, borders, races and laws. But I have empathy and don’t have an Antisocial Personality Disorder.

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

People organize themselves according to those things. Even if you think the organization of societies and nations and cultures and religions are arbitrary, said groups still have a right to collective self-defense, to reprisal, to safety, to disincentivize further attacks by responding to violence with violence, to make the next potential attacker think twice about pulling another Oct 7. I support Israel deposing Hamas and achieving meaningful safety by whatever legal means they deem nessicary. They were the victims of a great injustice and I have sympathy and empathy for them. I have significantly less empathy for the nation who orchestrated the slaughter and intentionally provoked this response while hiding behind their own nation's children, using the inevitable tragedy to vilify Israel for defending themselves, parading the innocents they caused to suffer before the cameras. If anything this is a self-inflicted wound caused by Palestinian support of Hamas, militarization and indoctrination of youth, and popular intifada. Endless belligerence provoking predictable responses.

Now you're diagnosing me with a mental disorder for disagreeing with you? If you believe the only reason one might disagree with you is because they are a shill, have a mental disorder, or are fundamentally indecent or evil, you are in serious need of some introspection.

[–] TokenBoomer 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That’s a lot of words to say you’re a Zionist and an apologist for ethnic cleansing and war crimes.

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

No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying they have a right to self-defense and safety. No one should be committing war crimes.

You seem incapable of respectful disagreement regarding this. Good day.

[–] TokenBoomer 1 points 9 months ago

In recent weeks, Holocaust historians Omer Bartov and Raz Segal, both Israelis, have raised the specter of genocide in Gaza. Segal has described the current situation as “a textbook case of genocide.” Bartov, one of the world’s leading Holocaust scholars, describes a possible “ethnic cleansing operation that could quickly devolve into genocide” — and urges us to raise our voices before Israel’s actions fit this terrible descriptor. Source