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Yet none get called genocide. Also, my bit in brackets about who I am referring to is relevant.
As for those casualty figures, how many are civilians? 38,000 dead civilians and 0 dead militants is nonsense. Also, this is all reported by Hamas. The Israeli hostage rescue rescued hostages kept by a journalist, so even some pretending to act as normal civilians aren’t. Hostages kept among civilians to maximise the death toll. As Sinwar says, Hamas loves death more than life and he sees the war going to plan because the more dead Palestinians the better, since it will mean the world turning against Israel and them getting their one state soluition with none of those ‘evil Jews’ to worry about (when they get to deal with them).
None of this means that the actual civilian cost isn’t high, that there shouldn’t be questions of how military tactics are conducted under the circumstance of an enemy like Hamas who are trying to maximise civilian casualties. Netanyahu is trying to use the war to cling on to power, he is a man with few moral values. The casualties are horrible all the same, but maybe a loony religious death cult that is a splinter from a movement of Hitler admirers (The Muslim Brotherhood) share the blame for starting conflicts for a ‘resistance’ (which seemingly entails raping, butchering and mass slaughter).
My dislike of Hamas for what they are isn’t for how they treat Jews or other Israelis either. The dead and struggling Palestinians wouldn’t be dead or struggling if it wasn’t for their deluded Nazi-like extremism. The answer to this is hard, but it isn’t with more grievance mongering, from either side. I don’t like the right wing Israeli Jews who get videoed attacking Palestinians or destroying mosques in gaza as part of the IDF. However, people like Ahmad (below) are those who restore my hope even if it’s a little bit.