You know every single nation being treated the way Palestinians are historically treated would revolt. Did you know that the Israelian state exists today also thanks to terrorist acts that Jews did back in the days against the British mandate. And their back then military terrorist faction became the foundation of the present IDF?
You know history is written by the victors and the terrorist designation is done by the strong party. I am in no way excusing terrorism, just simply pointing you to some historical facts.
Do you also know why tunnels exist in Gaza, they were built because the state of Israel has always stifled their economy and prevented their basic human rights of free movement. Shall we also talk about the numerous illegal settlements, the various checkpoints and high walls and how Israel was treating Palestinians before the war? Or the fact that they are able to detain Palestinians without any legal conviction, or the fact that they are tried against military courts and served much harsher sentences.
Hell their elite is even calling them human animals and calling openly for their extermination.
I call the disparity of the casualties with the simple disregard of Israelis about human lives. Didn’t the IDF kill 3 of their own, who were waiving white flags and were half naked? Or what about the aid workers? So please don’t tell me that Israel is the good guy here, because THEY ARE NOT.
If you put a dog in the corner and kick with a stick, no matter how good natured this dog is, it will eventually bite you. So please don’t act surprised when this dog finally bites you.
And yes, I strongly believe that the only way to achieve a long lasting peace will be with Israel granting them civil rights and giving a future of those people. And treating them with respect.
…which nicely leads us back to my original point:
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’m not supporting either side. I’m not as pro-Israel as I might seem. The only reason I’m commenting in this thread is to push back on the claim that they’re deliberately targeting children with no other intention than to kill Palestinians. That I do not buy. Most other criticizm towards Israel however is perfectly valid and I have no opposition to it.
My problem with Israel is that they are showing complete disregard for human lives and are deliberately using hunger as a war means. That in my eyes is inexcusable.
And mind you, they are supposed to adhere to international law, which they don’t. The high civilian casualties count only comes to prove my statement. And this is not just now, even before the war, IDF soldiers were using pretext like throwing stones to kill some kids.
Just check Wikipedia or any non affiliated human rights NGO with Israel what they think about it.
And I challenge you to show me a single human rights watch group, again non affiliated with Israel that portrays a different picture from the one described above.
They’re more than likely guilty of all that and more. I have no reason to defend them for what they’re rightfully accused of.
However I’m still repeating what I just said; one reason for the high civilian casualties is the fact that Hamas deliberately uses their own population as human shields. It’s widely known and well documented that they intentionally place military targets near hospitals, schools, mosques, refugee camps aswell as in the tunnels under civilian housing because they know that Israel is deterred by it. Just imagine what a Hamas fighter would do if IDF soldiers used Israeli civilians as human shields. Do you think they would care?
Look at the video I posted above. Why were they filming? Because they knew the airstire was coming. IDF warned them beforehand by “roof knocking” They want the civilians out of there first. Hamas wants the exact opposite. There’s a ton of videos like that where the camera is perfectly pointed towards the building getting struck. Hamas does not warn beforehand. Hell, even Iran did that before their massive missile/drone strike.
The Israelis are no saints here but neither are Hamas nor the Palestinians who support them. If the roles were reversed and people saw what they would actually do if they could I think they would have quite a different opinion on them.
