But War Crime - eviltoast
  • hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    the bad guy

    Why does there have to be a singular “the” bad guy?

    And why the need to lump a huge group together to lay that blame?

    The Israeli government and Hamas both share the blame for all of this, among others.

    As is too common in the world, while a relatively small group deserves the blame, many more, on both sides, suffer the consequences.

    • Thief_of_Crows@sh.itjust.works
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      Because one side is attempting genocide. That makes them the bad guy, regardless of whatever they claim Hamas did to them. Claiming Hamas is as bad as the Israeli government is the same as claiming the Jews were equally at fault with the Nazis.

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        Are you aware that Hamas’s charter has the explicit objective of the complete eradication of the Israeli state? The PLO is also not very different in this aspect. So where do you get this “one side is attempting genocide” talking point from?

        • Thief_of_Crows@sh.itjust.works
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          Yeah, groups tend to want an end to the group genociding them. I get it from the actual facts, such as the 10 to 1 discrepancy in palestinian deaths vs Israeli.

        • cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
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          That’s such a disingenuous comparison. The end of the Israeli state means an end to the apartheid system upon which the state is built. It does not mean the genocide of Israeli civilians. Claiming otherwise is just propaganda meant to justify Israel’s own campaign of ethnic cleansing.

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        1 year ago

        Hamas’s goal is explicitly to genocide Israel. They just don’t have the resources.

        • cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
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          Where have they ever claimed to want to genocide Israeli people? That’s just a lie Zionist use to justify their own atrocities. It has no basis in fact.