A more precise picture of Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel has emerged from social security data, confirming the unprecedented scale of the violence but also challenging some initial testimonies.
All I can say is that both sides are wrong. Israel is an apartheid state. I was born Jewish but I do not have to side with Israel. I am far from an antisemite. Evil is evil.
So how can you so easily say both sides are wrong?
If a twelve year old child and thirty-five year old MMA fighter had beef because of the thirty-five year old’s actions, would you say both of them are wrong? Power dynamics should easily change optics here
So in your silly addition what does the MMA fighter get? Because Hamas does not have anything Israel also doesn’t have but Israel has very very much more than Hamas.
Well, it’s a silly addition because it is a silly analogy.
Obviously, an unarmed 12-year old cannot harm an MMA fighter at all. Whereas, Hamas clearly has the ability to hurt Israel. So, in your analogy, you have to give the 12-ywar old something that can severely hurt the MMA fighter. So, okay, maybe give the 12-year old a big can of pepper spray. The assault rifle and rocket launcher were more of an allusion to the weapons Hamas actually has.
If a twelve year old child and thirty-five year old MMA fighter had beef because of the thirty-five year old’s actions, would you say both of them are wrong?
Yes. The child is punching up does not justify the act of punching. The optics of the power dynamic simply mean the thirty-five year old the worst of the two because they’re punching down.
The child is only doing anything because of the adult.
In no situation is the child to blame, you can explain why what they did was wrong but if you don’t acknowledge the circumstances of how we got here you’re being all sorts of disingenuous.
The fact is Israel is wrong here and there’s nothing else to be said. Hamas is a force of desperation, why are they desperate?
In no situation is the child to blame, you can explain why what they did was wrong but if you don’t acknowledge the circumstances of how we got here you’re being all sorts of disingenuous.
I can acknowledge the circumstances that have created this… thing, and still blame the child because none of it absolves them from their actions. Like you said, what they did was wrong. Are we just supposed to ignore the fact that they did was wrong simply because next to them is a bigger asshole who is also doing wrong things on a greater scale? I don’t think so.
The fact is Israel is wrong here and there’s nothing else to be said. Hamas is a force of desperation, why are they desperate?
Israel is wrong here, but it doesn’t mean Hamas isn’t also wrong. Hamas is not a force of desperation. Hamas is just a militant group that uses the desperation of others to further their goals. The ones being desperate are Palestinians, they’ve done nothing wrong and they shouldn’t be blamed. Hamas can fuck right off alongside Israeli government.
Well then you are a fool and your logic is the same reason why people hate zero tolerance policies, because they’re stupid and weak and do nothing but protect the school (state) and continue an abusive system. Good job at being terrible at understanding context or anything complex.
Hamas literally wouldn’t exist if Israel didn’t act this way for decades and also DIDN’T FUND THEM. Did you know that? Israel funded them? Crazy.
You’re clueless.
If you go to a zoo and taunt the chimpanzee and he bites your finger off. You’d blame the chimp.
If you chose to strip down to your undies and skinny dip in sub zero temp and then died of hypothermia. You’d blame the weather.
If you saw radioactive material beside your morning coffee, drank it and died. You’d blame the fabric of the universe for letting radiation exist.
None of that makes sense. Hamas shouldn’t and wouldn’t be in power if not for Israel.
This is 100% on Israel and saying anything else just exposes your misunderstanding of power dyanmics.
Bro, that’s some fucking unhinged shit. You need to take a step back and reevaluate your life if you get so worked up over someone not 100% agreeing with you. We both agree Israel is the main culprit here. I think we both agree that Palestinians are the victims here. The only thing we don’t agree on is whether Hamas is right or wrong. I’m happy to agree to disagree because quite frankly I don’t give a shit about Hamas. Hamas is just pawn. If Hamas didn’t exist it would be the Islamic Jihad and if they didn’t exist it’d be some other militant group from Gaza that gets funded to be the black sheep.
Seems to me as if they are the only ones lifting a finger against the white supremacist settler-colonialist state that is threatening Palestinians with extermination.
There are many Palestinian groups calling for peace through non-violence. They are doing plenty of stuff. Maybe it gives Hamas a good PR to look like they are the ones “doing something” while the rest of us Palestinians do what? stand there and hold their beers? Please.
I’m going to assume you’ll have no problem showing me how this vaunted “non-violence” has worked against genocidal imperialism in the past. Should be plenty of examples around, shouldn’t there?
It doesn’t work so well, but I don’t mean not using weapons… Just not having to force the civilian population to arm themselves. The UN needs peacekeeping forces to protect Palestinians, and I’m not opposed to any army taking on the IDF.
About half of Israeli Jews are of north African or middle eastern descent. That’s not a “one drop” thing; literally 25% of Israeli Jews were either born or have a father who was born in Asia (outside of Israel) or Africa. The second largest group of first or second generation immigrants are Moroccan Jews.
But in the US context, North Africans and Middle Easterners are considered white, at least as far as the census goes.
Edit: actually, doing a reverse image search, that’s a picture of the Israeli Supreme Court. I think the woman on the right might be Gila Canfy Steinitz, the “first female Mizrahi justice”. News articles aren’t more specific than that for where her family is from, but yeah - somewhere in the middle east or north africa.
No no no, not “pretends”. Is more liberal and modern.
I’m sorry for what must be a soulcrushing amount of cognitive dissonance if you think Israel is not liberal and modern compared to Palestine. It’s so blindingly obvious.
TIL… liberals will enthusiastically support a genocidal white supremacist settler-colonialist state as long as it pretends to be “liberal” and “modern.”
All I can say is that both sides are wrong. Israel is an apartheid state. I was born Jewish but I do not have to side with Israel. I am far from an antisemite. Evil is evil.
Israel and Hamas are wrong.
Palestinians are simply victims.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. They are victims and they are being kept that way.
So how can you so easily say both sides are wrong?
If a twelve year old child and thirty-five year old MMA fighter had beef because of the thirty-five year old’s actions, would you say both of them are wrong? Power dynamics should easily change optics here
Well, it depends on whether the 12 year old has an assault rifle and a rocket launcher, doesn’t it.
So in your silly addition what does the MMA fighter get? Because Hamas does not have anything Israel also doesn’t have but Israel has very very much more than Hamas.
Well, it’s a silly addition because it is a silly analogy.
Obviously, an unarmed 12-year old cannot harm an MMA fighter at all. Whereas, Hamas clearly has the ability to hurt Israel. So, in your analogy, you have to give the 12-ywar old something that can severely hurt the MMA fighter. So, okay, maybe give the 12-year old a big can of pepper spray. The assault rifle and rocket launcher were more of an allusion to the weapons Hamas actually has.
They can hurt Israelis, but they can’t meaningfully hurt the Israeli state.
Which is why I conceded a downgrade in the 12 year old’s arsenal to a can of pepper spray.
Yes. The child is punching up does not justify the act of punching. The optics of the power dynamic simply mean the thirty-five year old the worst of the two because they’re punching down.
The child is only doing anything because of the adult.
In no situation is the child to blame, you can explain why what they did was wrong but if you don’t acknowledge the circumstances of how we got here you’re being all sorts of disingenuous.
The fact is Israel is wrong here and there’s nothing else to be said. Hamas is a force of desperation, why are they desperate?
I can acknowledge the circumstances that have created this… thing, and still blame the child because none of it absolves them from their actions. Like you said, what they did was wrong. Are we just supposed to ignore the fact that they did was wrong simply because next to them is a bigger asshole who is also doing wrong things on a greater scale? I don’t think so.
Israel is wrong here, but it doesn’t mean Hamas isn’t also wrong. Hamas is not a force of desperation. Hamas is just a militant group that uses the desperation of others to further their goals. The ones being desperate are Palestinians, they’ve done nothing wrong and they shouldn’t be blamed. Hamas can fuck right off alongside Israeli government.
Well then you are a fool and your logic is the same reason why people hate zero tolerance policies, because they’re stupid and weak and do nothing but protect the school (state) and continue an abusive system. Good job at being terrible at understanding context or anything complex.
Hamas literally wouldn’t exist if Israel didn’t act this way for decades and also DIDN’T FUND THEM. Did you know that? Israel funded them? Crazy.
You’re clueless.
If you go to a zoo and taunt the chimpanzee and he bites your finger off. You’d blame the chimp.
If you chose to strip down to your undies and skinny dip in sub zero temp and then died of hypothermia. You’d blame the weather.
If you saw radioactive material beside your morning coffee, drank it and died. You’d blame the fabric of the universe for letting radiation exist.
None of that makes sense. Hamas shouldn’t and wouldn’t be in power if not for Israel.
This is 100% on Israel and saying anything else just exposes your misunderstanding of power dyanmics.
Bro, that’s some fucking unhinged shit. You need to take a step back and reevaluate your life if you get so worked up over someone not 100% agreeing with you. We both agree Israel is the main culprit here. I think we both agree that Palestinians are the victims here. The only thing we don’t agree on is whether Hamas is right or wrong. I’m happy to agree to disagree because quite frankly I don’t give a shit about Hamas. Hamas is just pawn. If Hamas didn’t exist it would be the Islamic Jihad and if they didn’t exist it’d be some other militant group from Gaza that gets funded to be the black sheep.
Hamas is wrong?
Seems to me as if they are the only ones lifting a finger against the white supremacist settler-colonialist state that is threatening Palestinians with extermination.
Yes.
Hamas are right wing religious ethno-nationalists who haven’t even allowed an election in 20 years.
There’s a reason Netanyahu and other far-right Israelis keep propping up Hamas and weakening the PLO.
Yeah, I remember the PLO - people just like you were calling them “terrorists” back in the 70s and 80s, too.
Anyone that resists white supremacism and colonialism must be a “terrorist” - isn’t that so?
Have I used the word terrorist once?
Stop making up strawmen to fight.
Oh, you don’t have to - there’s nothing about your “moderate” politics that aren’t predictable. Nothing new about it, either.
Oh no the right winger is calling me moderate for not supporting fascists.
Oh no the right-winger is pretending not to be a right-winger.
Why do right-wingers not like being called right-wingers, eh?
Please explain.
There are many Palestinian groups calling for peace through non-violence. They are doing plenty of stuff. Maybe it gives Hamas a good PR to look like they are the ones “doing something” while the rest of us Palestinians do what? stand there and hold their beers? Please.
I’m going to assume you’ll have no problem showing me how this vaunted “non-violence” has worked against genocidal imperialism in the past. Should be plenty of examples around, shouldn’t there?
It doesn’t work so well, but I don’t mean not using weapons… Just not having to force the civilian population to arm themselves. The UN needs peacekeeping forces to protect Palestinians, and I’m not opposed to any army taking on the IDF.
2 wrongs don’t make a right. Neither side should be proud of their actions here
The side resisting the genocidal white supremacist settler-colonialist state is far less wrong.
Most Israelis aren’t white.
Yeah… Israel’s political institutions are paragons of racial diversity.
I see several non white middle easterners in that picture.
You want to point out the “non white middle easterners” in the picture? You know… for those of us who doesn’t work on the “one-drop rule.”
About half of Israeli Jews are of north African or middle eastern descent. That’s not a “one drop” thing; literally 25% of Israeli Jews were either born or have a father who was born in Asia (outside of Israel) or Africa. The second largest group of first or second generation immigrants are Moroccan Jews.
But in the US context, North Africans and Middle Easterners are considered white, at least as far as the census goes.
I’m guessing they all just coincidentally happen to be off sick every time people take pictures inside the Knesset, huh?
Do tell… does that perhaps explain why Israel’s economic and political structures seem to be dominated by European Jewish people?
If you saw a picture of this guy in the knesset, would you visually recognize that his family is Moroccan? Does this former deputy prime minister look European to you despite having been born in Iraq?. Here’s another Israeli politician who was literally born in Baghdad.
As an American, these people would very clearly be considered white. Honestly, the prime minister of Lebanon and the head of Fatah also code as white to me.
Edit: actually, doing a reverse image search, that’s a picture of the Israeli Supreme Court. I think the woman on the right might be Gila Canfy Steinitz, the “first female Mizrahi justice”. News articles aren’t more specific than that for where her family is from, but yeah - somewhere in the middle east or north africa.
The side that is more liberal and modern is far less wrong. https://sopuli.xyz/comment/5435427
TIL… liberals will happily support a genocidal white supremacist settler-colonialist state as long as it pretends to be “liberal” and “modern.”
No no no, not “pretends”. Is more liberal and modern.
I’m sorry for what must be a soulcrushing amount of cognitive dissonance if you think Israel is not liberal and modern compared to Palestine. It’s so blindingly obvious.
TIL… liberals will enthusiastically support a genocidal white supremacist settler-colonialist state as long as it pretends to be “liberal” and “modern.”
Hamas definitely isn’t in the wrong anymore. No rape, no decapitation, extremely targeted attacks against military.
These new numbers make Hamas look like angels.
Perhaps you’re trying to be funny but
But perhaps you were referring to Azrael or Lucifer when you said “angel”?
The supernova festival was completely unplanned. It was literally not even supposed to be there as it’s permit ran out a day ago.
Furthermore it’s still rather unclear how many people Hamas actually killed there the IDF helicopter mowed down a lot of people there.
Those people are included in the numbers already btw. So likely a lot of IDF at the festival too
Your comment is as wrong as two left shoes. Ain’t nothing right about it.