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UN Human Rights Office - OPT: Unlawful killings in Gaza City
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Yeah, people should've figure out by now that in dimensions of their murdering, the disparity of strength (and hence of responsability in their use) and the moral standards expected from the dictatorial resistance movement of a long occupied land vs those of a supposedly Democratic nation (and Israel has long leveraged their image as Western-style Democracy all the while the place turns out to - surprise surprise - culturally be yet another of the racist theocracies so common in the region), Hamas is to Israel as a flea is to a rabid dog.
Everytime anybody goes "yeah, but Hamas" they're doing the propaganda game for Israel.
We're way beyond a proportionate response by this point and into the style of "payback" the Nazis did in France when after being attacked by the Resistance Française they would go to a French village and chose and kill 10 people for each German the Resistance had killed.
But it is a both sides situation. Both sides have the same goal. Externinating the other. One side is just much more powerful.
Yes I'm sure all those dead little girls just wanted to exterminate the Jews.
But the dead Israeli babies DO want to exterminate the Palestinians? What a weird point you're trying to make.
Yeah you could make the same sarcastic remark that way too
It's overall an awful situation, there isn't any "both sides" because both sides are shit and would happily genocide one-another. One side just happens to have the means to actually carry out that genocide, making them especially more shit.
What's the morally correct thing to do: Am I supposed to put a Gaza flag on my social medias and gush about how Israel is terrorizing and destroying them and say that I stand by Hamas? I already shit on Israel because of their genocide. However, Hamas would (once again) do the same exact thing if given the chance.
Specifically picking a side is stupid because if Hamas could, they'd do the exact same thing.
It really muddles the reality of what is happening.
Why not? It's the one fundamental differences when comparing this conflict with the Nazi extermination of jews (and others).
The jews didn't massacre German civilians before their attempted annihilation.
It's not much of a difference, in the entire score of things, but both Hamas and the idf have blood on their hands. Neither have done things benificial to the Palestinian people. The October attack was a strategic mistake of the highest order.
At the time support for the Netanyahu regime was falling, people were demonstrating. They had literally nothing to gain. They actually played right into bibi's hand.
Not that I approve of the Israeli reaction, it's horrible and indeed a case study on the banality of evil. It is completely outside of all proportions. To say that only one side is to blame, is wrong. Without oct 7 this would never have happened. To deny that you would have to prove that it was a false flag attack.
I do get the analogy of the Warsaw ghetto, I've used the same analogy before.
But the relationship between hamas and the Israeli governement is very curious. If say I'm not on the both sides kind of thing, but on the 'one of three'. The Palestinian people are suffering under the war mongering of both hamas and the idf. Just like not one hundred procent of Israelis are behind the actions of the idf, most Palestinian people aren't responsable for the actions of Hamas.
It's way more complicated than the binary issue you lot try to make it off it and frankly that is tiring and obtuse.
I'm not disputing that that's the case. But simplifying a conflict that is almost a hundred years old into a binary blame model is silly.
For me the problem with the "both sides" argument is that it misses the symmetry issue.
Oh and I would agree that the symmetry is way off. It's only that the conflict is so old and complex that putting it down to a binary good/bad narrative is quite simplistic.
No one in their right mind would call both sides innocent either. The amount of guilt and the assymetry can be argued about. I tend to agree that the Palestinian people are suffering way more than anyone in that part of the world. It seems that neither hamas nor the IDF care about them at all.