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see all Palestinians as Hamas

Despite opinion and anger here, there's a lot of truth to that. Imagine seeing your friends and family brutally murdered, or your friend shot in the kneecap as sport for some IDF fuck, and then saying you don't support any kind of resistance.

And that sentiment, punctuated by Oct 7th, makes Israelis afraid, somewhat reasonably. The people they've oppressed will always be inclined to strike back. The people they're genociding would be even happier to genocide Israelis.

The point is that there is no protagonist in this fight. There's nuance and no easy answers.

None of that justifies the very clear and deliberate genocide Israel is carrying out. It was extremely clear this was their plan when they killed the World Central Kitchen people. They've planned this genocide, knowing exactly what they're doing and the consequences.

It's the nation-state equivalent of a schoolyard fight where one student pulls a knife and slashes the other's throat. It doesn't matter how the fight started, or what their motivations were at the beginning, we don't stand for that kind of brutality. You have a right to defend yourself, but that is very clearly beyond justifiable.

I feel like the people speaking out for Palestine are often making the same mistake DARE did with drugs in the 1990s. You can't make everything black & white, even with kids. The program would have been more effective had it acknowledged nuance and been more truthful.

Agree

Most (nearly all) of the "pro-life" crowd is like this in the US.

Nobody paying attention is surprised. Evil people.

The Nazis said similar things when "liquidating" the Warsaw Ghetto after the Jewish resistance mounted an uprising.

There's no excuse for war crimes, no justification for crimes against humanity. NONE

I would love to see him starve to death while the world watches so he would know what he is causing

"Gaza is becoming " it should "Gaza has been".

I think you mean The Hague, that is where the ICC court is.

He needs the Mussolini treatment

And Netanyahu's government has made plenty very similar on-the-record statements ever since it came into power.

If there is no armed resistance in Gaza, Israel can "mob up" without any difficulty.

The reason why many intelligence and military people now voiced concern is not because they care about the lives of the Palestinian people, but because Gaza is a nightmare to conquer and occupy. Hamas and other armed groups are very creative and had decades to fortify Gaza for another invasion. For instance a lot of the explosives they use for their traps are unexploded ordnance from Israeli attacks.

Israel in large part used to blow up buildings in Gaza with US made anti-tank mines. They move to use the D9 armored bulldozers instead, because the fighters could capture significant stockpiles of mines and use them to blow up Israeli tanks. Now the bulldozers are easy targets for sniper fire and explosive attacks. Israel seems to rarely send in soldiers on foot, instead relying on heavily armored troop carriers that end up becoming sitting ducks and targeted with self made rocket launchers, shaped charges or having an explosive dropped in the often open hatch. There even was a video of fighters using an artillery rocket by simply laying on the ground and triggering the charge so it would fly forward towards a target.

Israels army hasn't fought a proper war on the ground for many years. Most soldiers are just used to pushing around women and children in the Westbank than to actually fighting against an armed opposition. The key strength of Israel is its airforce. But bombing things to rubble only gets you so far, as the US and NATO have seen in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen...

It's not genius at all, at least not on the basis of "winning". There is no "winning" this conflict without a political solution, and there is no political solution without full rights for Palestinians.

Netanyahu is judging that the world will let him get away with genocide as long as he does it slowly. If he actually genocides Palestine, he won't have a problem any more.

It's the second. It's always been the second. Dude indirectly funded hamas for this purpose.

If you plan on wiping them out or shipping them away, this strategy is quicker.

Right after the Holocaust.

There are many other countries with similar examples

It's almost as if human beings, from any and all races, are always controlled by a small group of assholes who like nothing more but to have power at any cost

Contrary to the Israeli claims there is no evidence of Hamas stealing food.

The video Israel published of the last moments of Yahya Sinwar showed him fighting on the front lines and until the last moment. Releasing that was very stupid from a propaganda perspective as Israel itself proved its claims about Hamas leaders hiding in tunnels and being well fed to be lies.

Netanyahu is a terrible human being but an amazing politician.

In Israel all governments are coalition governments, and as Netanyahu got less and less mainstream support he tacked further and further to the right, joining with crazy religious fundamentalists because that was the only way to stay in power.

My understanding is that very shortly after losing power he will end up in court on corruption charges, and maybe die in prison. Not because of crimes against humanity, but for crimes against Israel.

Holodomor, and the details are not quite the same. The end result will be though, if anyone survives at all this time around.