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      The problem I have with the “both sides” argument is while I agree we should not approve of Hamas’ actions, Israel routinely murders civilians without consequence. We tut and tsk but we still send them basically unlimited aid and approval.

      Yes both sides behave badly but one side does so with our explicit support.

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        Don’t forget how Israel sells world-class spyware to despots and dictators, who use it to terrorise journalists and political opponents.

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          IDF soldiers have murdered plenty of children. It is routine and I don’t care if they are protesting, they are entitled to protest oppression.

          Hamas are disgusting and Israel are cunts but Hamas is because of what Israel does.

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            Well if you casually leave out that part it becomes a lie by omission. And there’s a reason you have to use this lie both to yourself and to others. It has a whole different ring to it when you say “IDF regularly shoot teenagers throwing molotov cocktails in protest” instead of “routinely murdering children”.

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              Mohammed Tamimi is the youngest Palestinian killed in the conflict this year

              Mohammed Tamimi is the youngest Palestinian killed in the conflict this year (June 2023)

              Shot in the head by Israeli forces.

              He was 2.

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              Siblings Ali and Mayar ed-Din, who were killed in an IDF airstrike on May 9, 2023

              Siblings Ali and Mayar ed-Din, who were killed in an IDF airstrike on May 9, 2023

              Damn teenagers get younger with every cull.

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              Yeah they absolutely did, by teaching the people that shit was normal by doing it to them for generations. Murdering civilians who are celebrating is just how they say hi, so they shouldn’t be surprised pikachu face when they do it right back to them.

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        It’s “He hit me!” and “Well, he hit me first!” ad infinitum.

        The whole thing is a clusterfuck from top to bottom.

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        We (the EU at least) also send a lot of aid to Palestinians.

        Israel should be sanctioned and decolonized like South Africa was.

        And I, for one, believe that that would have happened a long time ago if the Palestinians had followed the Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi playbook.

        Perhaps I am wrong. Like the rest of the world, I also don’t have the solution for this quagmire.

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          The experiment has actually been running already. The Gaza Strip is run by Hamas, which is violent and pushes back against Israel however they can. The West Bank is run by Fatah, which has been attempting to keep good relations with Israel and work with them.

          Despite that, the West Bank has seen a continuing encroachment of illegal Israeli settlers, continuing violence directed at Palestinians, both by the settlers moving in there and by the Israeli army. The reason the border with Gaza was so ill-defended was because Netanyahu had moved much of the force usually stationed there into the West Bank. Palestinian deaths in the West Bank has been rising.

          I don’t think the Mahatma Ghandi approach is likely to work in the Middle East. At least no better than any other approach people have been trying has been working there.

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          Development aid, not weapons as the west supplies to Israel. But otherwise you’re right. The whole region should be disarmed.

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      Thing also is that those people were also hated during thier time and also called terrorists. There’s no good options for a leader sadly.

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          A lot of people seem the think he was only regarded well once released from prison. I certainly didn’t know much about him until then.

          Yet Only Fools and Horses was made in 1981, and they lived in Nelson Mandela House. So even in the UK we knew South Africa was on the wrong side of history. And we should know, we wrote most of it…

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          Oh sure, there is some factions within the West, but on the whole they agree on the big stuff. It’s why they’re all allied with eachother in the first place. It’s not a hive mind, it’s a team.