And add the rapes of woman and children, it’s no wonder Israel must beat these terrorists.

. . . only calculating loss of life, 10/7 was almost 14 times worse than 9/11.

and yet folks were A-OK with Bush destroying Iraq (even with most of the 9/11 terrorists being from Saudi Arabia!)

. . . the stereotypical "Evil Jew" archetype. He's got the nose and the ears. Talks like a Jew. He is more powerful than most other world leaders and is fiercely committed to protecting Israel - especially since 10/7 happened on his watch. He is Shylock, Scrooge, Fagin, and the Evil Jew from the medieval morality plays. At least, that is how the non-Jewish world chooses to see him. Had such an attack occurred in contemporary times on American soil and Bibi was the president, we'd see him as a hero - or maybe not as most would have wanted a far greater response.

Many condemned Israel immediately, before Israel started retaliating.

Some now condemn Israel for “forcing” Lebanese to flee their homes.

About 65,000 Israelis had to be evacuated from their homes in the north.

The horror of 9/11 was a one time event. With the occasional capture of individual terrorists like the shoe bomber. Israel is under continuing attacks.

I have long thought that Israel (like US Dems, until very recently) lacks a good communications team. Despite my gut level belief that our general moral principles stand as guide rails to actions taken by the Jewish state, I haven’t seen much in the way of cogent, coherent justifications for the level of destruction and loss of presumably civilian life in Gaza. I don’t think Israel would need to spend a ton of time on it, but currently the narrative supporting those actions seems more or less to be: trust that it’s necessary to root out hamas and locate the captives, and that Israel is our democratic bastion in the Middle East so there’s strategic value for our support. I stand with Israel, but with so much circulating narrative - here and on the world stage - painting its actions in a bad light, including, incredibly, “genocide,” it would be great to see a more substantive narrative emerge.

Israel was being accused of genocide by the MSM journalists and guests just days after 10/7.

No one in the media has tried to get real casualty numbers, they just lazily report "according to the Gaza Health Ministry..."

Israel is in a classic lose-lose situation. If they don't fight back Israelis suffer and die, if they do fight back they get demonized by the world MSM and the UN. If they concede to Arab/Palestinian demands then Israel ceases to exist. There are literally "journalists" in Europe who speak about the end of Israel like its just a matter of time. Bibi is a distraction, their opinion that Israel was a mistake goes well beyond the current government.

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And there’s so much viral ignorance. But we are all seeing the footage. I haven’t heard anything more substantive than what I noted above in terms of strategic disclosures … have you read something more? Not that Netanyahu “needs” to justify, in the face of the abject brutality and continued refusal to meet one-sidedly generous ceasefire terms, but that it would help public understanding.