Reply To: They won’t will they?

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I could say the forceful persecution of Jews in other countries and aggression in 1947 could also help in bringing this to today.

People keep saying things like two wrongs don’t make a right, but I am yet to see what Israel should do. Nothing? Leave the hostages to suffer? How do you avoid civilian casualties in urban warfare? Israel have specifically stated that their primary aim is to release the hostages, so where are the calls for this to happen and then use that as leverage against any military continuation? No-one seems to make it, which is why many say there is no acknowledgement of what triggered this. Now we have Antony Blinken announcing that the US and Israel have agreed aid corridors for Gaza, which is very odd for a case of apparent genocide, it must be said. Of course there is much able to be critiqued, but the idea that Israel is equivalent to a bunch of genocidal thugs is out there. Like I have said, if people didn’t want war, maybe Hamas and its vocal supporters shouldn’t have been chomping at the bit for it.

To me, the Palestinian activists won’t do this because many just don’t consider it from the other angle or, worse, don’t care. As can be seen with the many disgusting chants to kill Jews, celebrating dead Jews, associations with paragliders after they killed civilians in a brutal pogrom. Speakers made these comments, so they can’t use the excuse of it being some non-entities. The problem now is that any moral standpoint of the Palestinian cause from the hardened activists is laughable.

There will never be improvement for Palestinians so long as Hamas have control. Their genocidal desires have not been a secret (they make it clear in their charter), even if some have ignored them, and Israel won’t and shouldn’t have to accept having to live near those who want their citizens killed.