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In reply to the discussion: "Genocide" is . . . [View all]

moniss

(6,149 posts)
7. It is nonsense to ignore the statements
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:37 PM
Dec 6

by Ben-Gvir and Smotrich etc. when discussing whether a campaign has a flavor of bigotry to it. You seem to want to defend any and all damage to people who had nothing to do with 10/7. It is ridiculous to hold little children responsible and justify their deaths by saying others could have stopped you. Netanyahu has gone on record saying there would be no stopping even if the hostages were released. It is madness to try and justify destroying an entire city block of dwellings with massive air bombardment in order to get at the half dozen or so Hamas terrorists claimed to be there. It is an indiscriminate use of force as opposed to sending in soldiers. There is a reason Israel has lost so much support around the world since 10/7 and it is not all anti-Semitism but that is the "go to" it seems rather than consider that the level of dead and wounded in this short time is repulsive since the vast majority of it is falling on children and people who had nothing to do with 10/7.

After 10/7 most everybody was completely behind your country responding but that doesn't mean anything goes and people are just going to back you unquestioningly. By the reasoning, measures and proportionality the Israeli government claims is acceptable then I guess the equivalency for our country after 9/11 would have been to wipe out 90% of the Saudi population. Everyone is not either anti-Palestinian/anti Muslim or anti-Israel/anti Semitic who is reviled by Hamas actions and Israel's.

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