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Originally Posted by BishopMVP
Yeah basically what he said. It's not Israel's lobbying groups creating and uploading the videos going around Telegram etc, and we've both heard extensive criticism of Israel and it's government over the years even if it doesn't fit your narrative so you're pretending it never exists. (Much justified, but also a decent amount driven by anti-Semitism or at least "anti-Zionism" in the speakers eyes.) Israel will probably go too far and we'll have a 3rd intifada but Hamas attacked in such a terroristic fashion not a single Arab country, Fatah, Hezbollah, or the vast majority of Palestinians in the West Bank are willing to join their side at this point and all the rhetoric coming from Europe and the UN is anti-Hamas's actions which it rarely is. Even now Hamas is threatening to execute hostages on video and release them to get the bombing to stop, when the play to get some public opinion back on your side would be to have those hostages killed (or appear to be killed) by Israeli bombing, but they're too dumb and indoctrinated into a cultish echo chamber that hates humanity and celebrates their actions on social media to recognize it.
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It's a war. Israel commits terrorism on innocent civilians on a daily basis. The Palestinians retaliated with terrorism on innocent civilians too. There's no goodguys in this scenario. Just extremists carrying out atrocities against innocent civilians.
Optics don't matter in a war for survival. Especially in one where people are siding based on religion and skin color. And even if it did matter, who tells the story? Israel just executed 3 journalists and 2 others are missing over the weekend. Not like you're going to hear both sides of this one.
And drop the faux outrage over those videos. Israeli soldiers wore t-shirts with a bullseye on pregnant women stomachs saying "1 shot, 2 kills". During the last conflict, Israeli citizens parties on top of a hill as they watched bombs fall on Palestinians. The people running an apartheid state don't get to take the moral high ground.
This is a war. Bad things happen and will continue to happen. The United States should be looking for a peaceful resolution. If that's not possible, they should mind their own business. You don't take sides when both sides are committing atrocities.