cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15904702
“This was intentional,” said U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib. “You don’t accidentally kill massive amounts of children and their families over and over again and get to say, ‘It was a mistake.’”
So yes or no, you are ok with someone killing children to get what they want?
Have you heard of a thing called depth or nuance? Not everything is as simple as one sentence.
Kids always die in wars. Does that mean war is never moral? No. I’m not okay with kids getting bombed. Their parents and community should heed the warnings instead of supporting terrorists. 99.3% of Palestinians are managing not to get blown up while hanging out with Hamas commanders.
My point is, if you have decided to pull the trigger, knowing you’re gonna kill a kid, I hope you die a painful death and no longer care what you think.
It’s just tragic coincidence after tragic coincidence after tragic coincidence.
At what point do you stop believing these are accidents?
Sometimes they aren’t. I have hope Israel, as a democracy, will sort its shit out at the ballot box. Same as I hope for my own country, and throughout the western world. We all have rightwing nutjobs we need to be excising from our politics.
I have zero hope that will happen for any Palestinian or really virtually anyone in the middle east outside of Israel. I have more hope for Iraq as a beacon of democratic ideals than I do for Gaza. Gaza is a lost cause and nobody is going to miss Hamas or remember a few score thousands of collateral deaths, attributable entirely to Hamas’s leadership.
E: Not just me https://www.idea.int/gsod-2021/africa-middle-east
