So you meant "Congratulations, it's not murder, it's not genocide. 🏅 🏅" (with two medals) and "was rightfully corrected by the wise that emotionally charged words like “murdered” do not belong in war. Now it’s all better." sincerely [my emphasis]? Sure you did.
And of course, because you're SO sincere, in the very next sentence you group me as one of the "it's our right to kill Palestinian people". Nonsense.
And (currently) 50 brain-dead idiots reflexively clap without thinking. Hooray!!! Don't you guys have some campus buildings to reflexively occupy (and then demand nummy free food deliveries)?
What's particularly unclear and/or challenging about this statement:
People on both sides die in wars ... so unless you're cool with innocent people dying, maybe don't start wars!
Who started this latest one? Your darlings, Hamas! With unprovoked attacks on the same innocents you claim to care about (except of course that these innocents were Israeli, ouch!), during a ceasefire (no clever retorts about any of this, I notice). These people weren't "collateral damage" -- unintentionally killed or wounded in a battle; they were the premeditated targets.
And no I don't "interchange Palestinian with Hamas". I was very clear about attributing the violent actions of Hamas, the PLO, etc to those groups. And I understand that [hypothetically] "Innocent Palestinians aren't Hamas", but where are these "innocent" Palestinians?
I hear Israelis criticizing Israel and Americans criticizing America every day. Hell, I left America because I so deeply disagree with its policies and actions. But in the almost fifty (50) years that I've been aware of this ongoing aggression against Israel, I've never heard one (1) Palestinian say, "This is wrong. I condemn Hamas, the PLO, etc." Not one.
If you were (hypothetically) to think for a moment, what might this suggest?
What does the data tell us?
Innocent Palestinians certainly aren't among the "Seventy-one percent of Palestinians in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank [who] believe Hamas made the right decision in attacking Israel on October 7, according to a new poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, an organization primarily funded by the European Union and the United States-based Ford Foundation."
Innocent Palestinians certainly aren't among the "Ninety-one percent of Palestinians, according to the survey, [who] do not think Hamas has committed war crimes" or the "93 percent [who] say the terrorist organization did not commit the well documented acts of rape and civilian slaughter that took place on October 7."
Those are the people you're irrationally defending (and attacking anyone who points out the brutality of Hamas and the culpability of even innocent Palestinians in order to irrationally defend).
As for "Hamas is still a threat, still there. Still untethered." Not nearly the threat it was and on a fairly short tether in the lovely tunnels under Rafah (and/or hiding behind human shields), to the best of anyone's ability to determine. Ah, the bravery.
Do you ever get tired of being wrong? Do you ever even check to see if you are? Or do you just keep seething and reflexively typing, typing, typing?
"Still untethered" Here again, even a passing acquaintance with history might serve you well. Israel is going the distance on this one. Just like they did in the Six-Day War after being attacked. Just like they did after the slaughter of actually innocent athletes at the Olympics. Just like they did after the Holocaust, when millions (not thousands) of actually innocent Jews were actually brutally actually murdered.
And now that their homes have predictably been destroyed and their friends and family predictably but unintentionally lost in the fighting that directly resulted from Hamas' Oct 7 attacks, the "innocent" Palestinians of Gaza are just now begining to criticize Hamas.
They chose to live near and among them for years. They voted for them in local elections. They greeted them on their way to work each morning, "As-salamu alaykum!" ("Peace be with you!", now THAT's how you do irony). They waved green flags, delighted in the "justified" deaths of actual innocents when Hamas rockets fell in Israel.
I'm 100% with you on protecting wildlife (unless that too somehow involves justifying terrorists), but you are at best deeply uninformed/misinformed and misguided on these subjects.
