You didn’t answer why Israel backed Hamas’s rise to power - it’s not like Hamas’s rhetoric has meaningfully since Israel helped them displace the secular moderates - they knew who they were backing, so why did they do it?
Let’s cut through your nonsense with 2 basic questions:
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What is the definition of genocide you’re using?
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In what way was October 7th bad in a way Israel hasn’t been worse since?
Israel have the means to commit a genocide (Israeli officials have even been talking about nuking them) they’ve talked about genociding Palestine for a while now, manufactured the pretext in supporting Hamas, and now they’ve begun their genocide in earnest.
Hamas are terrorists, would love to genocide those that pushed them to power, but armed with small arms, a handful of rockets and an airforce consisting of a single paraglider, they lack the means to take down a nuclear power with F35s, backed by the US.
Bonus points: instead of whining vaguely about what you assume is my media diet (when I did nothing but quote officials from the regime you’re defending), where am factually wrong?
For the curious, this moron has given their definition of genocide in a separate thread. His definition would mean that dropping a nuke on Netanyahu as he sits in Tel Aviv, wiping Israel off the map wouldn’t be a genocide, while a marketing campaign to sell bottled water to African Americans would be a genocide.
This is the kind of incoherent bullshit tying yourself in knots to deny a genocide leads you to.
