Despite growing international condemnation, Israel has rejected calls for a ceasefire of its continued assault on Gaza. "Israeli forces carried out indiscriminate attacks, killing and injuring civilians, and in some cases that we documented, … entire families were wiped out," says Amnesty Internatio...
So many people running whataboutism interference for the apartheid regime in this thread 🤦
We get it! Nobody sane is saying that the atrocities of Hamas are excusable! That doesn't free the Israeli government from responsibility for their decades of oppression, genocide and systematic displacement of the Palestinian people, though.
I have seen many people say that terrorism from Hamas is excusable due to the actions of the Israeli government. Obviously the Israeli government has done many things they absolutely should not have, but that does not excuse terrorism like many people on Lemmy have said.
I have seen many people say that terrorism from Hamas is excusable
Correction: a tiny minority of the most deranged tankies. I specified nobody SANE.
excuse terrorism like many people on Lemmy have said.
Same tiny minority of tankies. There's a lot of tankies here but even amongst them, the condemnation of Hamas' actions is near-universal.
The same isn't the case with supporters of the Israeli government. They are wont to say "Israel has a right to defend itself " as if decades of oppression, genocide and displacement coupled with extremely disproportionate responses are just necessary self defense 🤦
So, I'm confused. Was tying a bunch of kibbutz children together and shooting them to death a war crime or not? Amnesty international ha been silent on that.
The majority of the stories around Hamas have been proven bullshit. So I’d stop and ask why that is. Palestine has been suffering for 70+ years and antiwar activists have been trying to educate people about it for ages. Yet as soon as a small handful of flimsy, debunked stories come out about Hamas violence, the people that ignored Palestine for years come out in full force.
That alone tells me what I need. Unwilling to face the massive pile of war crimes and bodies that have been piling up on the Palestine side for decades, but will immediately jump on any opportunity to force Palestinians and Palestine supporters to answer for the crimes of an extremist group that exists because of Israel’s war crimes and violence.
You can immediately see the disconnect and the pro-Israel brainwashing surface.
I too can't believe that no one seems to give a fuck about what Hamas did. Apparently you're only allowed to choose one single side in this conflict.
Well, fuck that. As far as I'm concerned both deserve each other, and the conflict will never be resolved until either one party finally gets rid of the other, or they're both obliterated somehow.
So not holding my breath for a "solution".