Quote (Prox1m1ty @ 31 Oct 2023 16:52)
No.
But you are conflating the longer term Palestinian question with the current situation of a massive terrorist attacking having provoked Israel's response.
I'm firmly against what I would also describe as apartheid against Palestinians. I'm against the fervent and illegal settlement of Palestinian land in the west bank.
But I'm even more strongly against terrorist organisations that behead children and burn families in their homes.
Hamas must be destroyed as a credible threat to Israel. Undoubtedly the Palestinian question has to be addressed; But what I see you doing is using the Palestinian question as a way to justify/negate what Hamas has done and what Hamas is.
Hamas is Daesh just repackaged.
Would you reasonably be calling for anyone to negotiate with Daesh?
again, where do you get the idea that people here are calling "for Israel not to defend itself" or to "negotiate with hamas"? literally no one did that, so why do you claim things like that? just like i never "justified" or even "negated" what hamas did, quite the opposite. read through this thread before telling the same dishonest smears that the apartheid apologists make in order to silence anyone criticising israel. i have condemned those actions repeatedly and unequivocally, called them barbaric and terrorism, have called for hamas to be eliminated repeatedly. you literally couldn't be more wrong about this. so please stop using those dishonest tactics, you can do better than that, and you certainly won't silence me with it either.
israel has overwhelming military and intelligence capabilities. the notion that they simply can't do better than collectively starving, bombing, and displacing hundreds of thousands of innocent people, slaughtering thousands of innocent women, children, and civilians in the process, is absurd.
also, we know for a fact that netanyahu has no intention whatsoever to end the cruel occupation, so again my question: how do you destroy any "credible threat" to israel with that in mind? that's basically just suggesting that israel has to keep killing palestinians until none are left. you can't prevent people from radicalising as long as you imprison, starve, and oppress them... and we ALL know that - but for some reason, half the people here act like if you just killed enough palestinians, something will fundamentally change, and justify the slaughtering of thousands of children by pretending they don't know that's not the solution...