Also the comment at the bottom is criticizing both IDF and Hamas.
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The thing about the common move of "israel and hamas are both bad" is that imo you should always add the qualifier of "But also Hamas is used as a cover and justification for Israeli atrocities, and also likely would be either significantly weakened or not exist at all if it were not for the ongoing genocide of palestinians."
Makes sense. Israel is certainly significantly worse than Hamas, and Hamas only exists as a reaction to the crimes of Israel. Saying "both sides" sounds like one is arguing that their crimes are equal. They're not even close.
But I look at the actions of Hamas on October 7 and I struggle to see how they're doing anything other than making everything worse. I don't know what they should be doing, but what they have done just isn't it.
You don't have to say they're equal by saying both are bad
Sane take detected