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Wtf is up with people picking sides over this??? Can’t we just agree that both sides are absolutely fucking awful and the ones who are gonna suffer are all the innocent people who are just trying to live their lives?

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Scum like Shapiro already had an agenda to push. For him this isn’t a tragedy, it’s an opportunity.

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I think the issue is that it IS both sides doing terrible stuff, but this is not a symmetrical war.

https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties

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Asymmetrical, and Isreal has been doing their damndest to make it inevitable.

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100% THIS. I can’t understand and haven’t from the beginning of this disaster or human embarrassment- why people are choosing sides.

They’re both complete shit.

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Yeah, ffs, if you want to fight a war, leave both side’s kids out of it.

14 and younger is too early for anyone to die, I swear if that asshole Trump really is the Antichrist (look it up, I’m no Christian but the “Kek and Medjet” meme energy is strong with that theory) and the bible was right (and if so, that these really are the end times), I hope every last person who has willingly killed a child or ordered someone to kill children goes to the 10th circle of hell or whatever passes for it, no matter what god or concept they believe in. Especially Trump (see the Mexican immigrant kids who his illegal “task force” of bigots basically kidnapped and let starve) and Putin, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Justice needs to be served for every child, whether they were enslaved on cocoa farms, working in slaughterhouses in the state that changed child labor laws, sent to juvenile detention for crimes they didn’t commit because the judge was getting kick-backs from a corporate prison, or killed in school shootings.

People say we hate child abuse. I strongly suspect what people really hate is the feeling of disgust that enter their heads if they hear “sex” and “kids” in the same sentence, which would be understandable if it was genuine concern (nobody, especially kids, should be subject to sex against their will, and yes, kids cannot consent) but it’s not. If it was, guns would be regulated, school bus routes would be required to never cross railroad tracks, and any leader - corporate or government - responsible for the intentional or negligent death of a child due to actions that used political/managerial authority would be executed.

I am so done with reality. Wake me up on November 12, if we’re still around by then.

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Brother I really hate to say it, but nobody is going anywhere when they die.

Also, what is on the 12th?

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Because that would mean ambiguity and people don’t like that. They want simple stories. Good guy here, bad guy there.

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3 points

It’s a shit situation all around, there are no winners and no good guys in this fight.

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Both of them have done war crimes. Now does the fact that the other side does war crimes allow you to do war crimes, as well?

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We can do both. I think neither side has had the “moral high ground” from the very beginning of this conflict. For well over 100 years it’s been both groups using the atrocity the other group has committed against them to justify their own atrocities in return.

But at the same time when you get to the very core of the issue it’s palestine and the Arab population that were existing there first, and had the land forcibly colonised by the west despite the protests for the Arab league. Then had their minority and very recently migrated population steal their land to unilaterally declare independence.

Both sides are going about this the wrong way, but only one is also fighting for the wrong reasons.

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37 points

This seems to be an “ESH” (everyone sucks here) situation. Yes, Hamas sucks more. But Israel isn’t far behind.

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If you’re keeping score isreal has for sure put more points on the board.

But Hamas does suck as much as the Israeli government, yes.

The biggest victims here? The Palestinians.

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The biggest victims here? The Palestinians.

We can agree on that, at least.

Shame they don’t have the ability to eradicate Hamas from their midst. But then there comes the issue of Israeli aggression and violent land appropriation.

As I pointed out, ESH.

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The reason I know I’d fail as a politician is because the instant I get asked anything about Israel / Palestine, I’d either run away screaming or I’d throw my hands up and say “I’m not touching this with a ten foot pole, they both suck and everyone except the civilians caught in the crossfire deserve whatever they get.”

This whole conflict isn’t black and white morality, or even black and gray morality. It barely qualifies as black and slightly-less-black-if-you-squint morality. It’s like Luke trying to blow up the Death Star, if the Death Star was populated mostly with families, children, and puppies, and Luke ate a baby while he was rescuing the princess.

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I think this whole “who is worse” paradigm is a dead-end trap. The binary right/wrong paradigm is also useless.

The reality is that you have two incompatible populations stuck on the same chunk of land, and they are not sufficiently motivated to compromise on the key issues. That’s why this conflict has been an unresolvable stalemate for decades now. Sad to say, but all-out war is probably the only thing that can break the stalemate at this point.

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Imagine having on the same place 2 presidents. 1 is Trump and the other is, let’s say, the one from Iran. Do you really think they would put the well being off the people before their own agenda? Israel has a bloody extremist leader and Hamas is another bloody extremist group. Israel’s civilian and Palestine’s civilian are just “collateral damage”.

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I thought Jared Kushner solved this during Trump’s presidency. Are you saying that they lied?

Jokes aside I agree. Both sides claim they want a 2 state solution, but that’s only because it’s politically convenient to say. Perhaps the Palastinians would settle for it now, since Israel has more power, but Israel really has no incentive not to just keep encroaching even more into Palestine until it’s all Israel.

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I don’t understand why we see Ben Shapiro posts all the time. Why do we care what he thinks. He’s irrelevant and here to make people rage. Stop engaging in his content and or sharing it with others. Let him scream into the void.

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Unfortunately he’s not irrelevant, there’s motherfuckers out there who hang on his every word and then spread it like wildfire through social media. “Normies” who only have passing knowledge of the situation eat that shit up and dumbass Ben suddenly has huge power to control the narrative.

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Ben Shapiro

are you surprised

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