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Thousands call for Gaza ceasefire on central London march
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Why are the people calling for a ceasefire always calling on only Israel to cease? Hamas has continued fighting, killing, and bombing Israel as well. They are the ones who ended the ceasefire by refusing to continue releasing hostages (including babies) and launching multiple attacks.
Everyone wants this war to end. Hamas could surrender and release the hostages and there'd be peace tomorrow. Instead Hamas has determined to fight to the last one remains alive.
I get that they view Israel as "theirs" (from the river to the sea means all of Israel and Palestine). But do they really think Israel will just be gone one day?
Israel has been in violation of the GCIV since 2007, it's been a globally recognized humanitarian crisis, and an extremely successful genocide/ethnic cleansing.
Israel has killed over 10x as many Palestinians compared to all pro-Palestinian groups combined (not just Hamas) since the year 2000. Since (and including) October 7th, Israel has killed 18,000 people (8000 children) Palestinians. Hamas has killed around 1200 people.
Maybe you think, like the Israeli defense minister that the killing of thousands of innocent children is justified because we're dealing with "human animals". The goal being to objectify Palestinians the same way we objectify non-human animals, so they can be slaughtered just as ruthlessly and effectively.
The formation of the genocidal state of Israel, which happened so recently that our current president was alive, involved the forceful removal and ethnic cleansing of almost a million native Palestinians.
We're far enough removed from the ethnic cleansing of native Americans in the U.S that most people recognize it was wrong for Europeans to invade, colonize, and genocide the native population, but when we see the exact same thing happening in our lifetimes, people like yourself happily back settler colonialism. It's genuinely fucking astounding.