No one is rooting for Hamas.
Talking about them shooting unguided rockets, but not about the “iron dome” protecting Israel seems disingenuous to me, especially as a comment to this specific article.
The proportion of the attack is not the same. The technology and money behind Israels “retaliation” are widely different than what was used by Hamas terrorists.
One can condemn Israel for their actions without being on the side of, or justifying what Hamas has done. One does not need to justify condemning the actions of a genocidal government.
I do not think you are arguing in bad faith, but you are getting close to “whataboutism”.
Well it kind of is whataboutism. There are very few things in this conflict that you can criticize one side for doing that the other side isn’t guilty of aswell. That’s why I really struggle to understand people that are picking sides here. From my point of view it’s a complete mess and the more I study it the more confusing it gets.
Hmmm, one side killed 35K, many of which children, the other less than 1K.
One side destroyed 60% of the civilian buildings, the other not.
One of the sides had destroyed and left non-functional a big part of the hospitals there, the other not.
One of the sides caused a widespread famine and managed to kill hundreds of aid workers and journalists and the other not.
Shall I continue, because I can. And I am not saying that Hamas aren’t culpable, but with all due respect Israel did everything possible to radicalize Palestinians and to push them to the very corner.
Shall I also remind you that 85% of Palestinians are expelled from their homes, and they are living in makeshift tents in unsanitary conditions. And the majority of those have nothing to do with Hamas or any other military formation and those people are also suffering immensely.
How do you explain the disparity between those numbers? Are the Israeli numbers bigger because Hamas is morally against attacking civilians or is there some other possible explanations for it? Such as the lack of recources to do so? If Israel wants a genocide then why don’t they just get over with it? They could finish it up in a weeked. They have the recources.
Could the high numbers be explained atleast in part by the fact that Hamas uses it’s civilian population as human shields while they themselves hide in the tunnels? Tunnels built with the money from international organizations intented to feed their population. Money they spent building rockets to fire at the Israeli civilian population while their own lives in poverty. Ones that they shoot from next to the refugee tents to deter airstrikes because they know that unlike themselves, Israel is actually deterred (to one degree or another) by it.
Hamas isn’t worried about their civilian population dying. They believe that being martyred lands you into heaven. It’s a non-issue for them. Quite the opposite actually. Israel killing 11 children is not only not an issue but also great PR for them to feed the rage against Israel and the Jews. What does Israel benefit from it? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Okay so that means Israel can kill 13,000 children? Thats okay? Do you know it’s Israels fault Hamas exists? If Israel wasn’t an apartheid state, October 7th wouldn’t have happened.
