• player1@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’m not saying all of these commenters are anti semites but many of them have been conditioned to basically think that whatever Hamas does is a legitimate way of responding to grievances (some certainly with merit) and whatever Israel does respond to that is genocide.

    If Al qaeda was based in Canada what would the U.S. have done after 9/11? Let them just continue to operate?

    I have asked several posters on here to give me some better options for Israel than to destroy Hamas. So far not a single one has obliged.

    • S_204@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They can't engage because then they'll need to admit their hypocrisy and bias.

      Israel's being held to a standard different than everyone else in the region. They understand better than most western nations what it's like to live in that sandbox. They're playing by the same rules as their neighbors and after last week the people blaming them don't have a leg to stand on…