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Well would you look at that, you managed to take the one thing in my first statement that you could dispute and turn it into a set of paragraphs while completely ignoring the rest of my point.
You even managed to turn me saying "A considerable number of deaths" into the strawman of "a significant portion of total deaths"
Which is A: not what I said
B: Completely missing the point
C: Failing to do any research outside of the VERY softball sources I sent you, because I knew you wouldn't react well to being told that you've been lied to about these "dangerous hamas terrorists" and how israel is entirely justified in genociding them because they attacked back against the settlers.
I'd like for you to gain a little empathy, instead of trying to make some form of "both sides bad" argument that only justifies israel in continuing to break any form of 'ceasefire' by letting them point at a building and say "hamas is there" before artillery or airstrikes get called in.
You know. Like they did with the hospitals. And the universities.
You said: "There’s also the fact that a considerable number of the deaths on october 7th were caused by the Hannibal protocol"
That's false. When I pointed out that it was false, you linked sources that also said it was false. So I went into detail and explained it to you. Consider how far you are in campist rhetroic that you take me calling you out for a falsehood, the same as me taking the side of Zionism, which I am not. I care purely for facts and will call out falsehoods regardless of which pretend side spouts them.
Likewise, you are conflating Hamas with the innocent Palestinian civilian populace. I've linked it elsewhere in this thread, but Hamas also mistreats and punishes Palestinians who oppose them.
Both Israel and Hamas can be bad for different reasons, you don't need to support one or the other. You can condemn both. I condemn both the IDF, the Israeli Government and Hamas/militants. Why can't you?