No, and honestly that’s fine. I realise it’s a divisive and complex topic. I reiterate that I understand that the civilian casualties are tragic. I put a lot of blame for that on Hamas because they put Israel in a situation where it was accept hostages are taken and potentially allow an Oct 7th repeat or war, which always leads to civilian casualties. This doesn’t make Israel perfect and I am well aware and feel worried about things like the West Bank actions, comments from Likud members and Netanyahu potentially prolonging the conflict for territorial gains.
I do apologise for reacting. I admittedly get wearied by some comments, but shouldn’t have worded some of the above as I did. My comments on media bias were meant as a comment on what JI said, not as a means to detract from civilian casualties, and I felt the need to defend my comments after 64’s post, since it wasn’t because of civilian casualties being reported. I will reflect and try and not make accusations about things like not commenting on responses to other conflicts when responding to people specifically. That was unfair. Though, I do feel this conflict does get a lot of airtime compared to them in the news and activist circles, and question why. Not like that means we shouldn’t care, but seeing a lot of the protesters and activists take the position of moral arbiters is frustrating when they don’t care about other issues. Even more so when I know some of the people and organisations involved ignore or deny the problems of other conflicts.
Still, that doesn’t mean I should treat others based off Stop the War and co. I do apologise for that.
