Two Wrongs don't make a right.
It's become too easy for both sides in this conflict to dehumanise the other.
The Israeli hostages need to be released immediately and there needs to be a ceasefire on both sides - for humanity purposes in Gaza. So food, electricity, fuel et al services can functions again within Gaza.
Otherwise many people in Gaza will die and the seeds will be sown for another generation to be turned into violent extremists...and nothing will change.
If both sides keep responding to the conflict in the same way as before but expect a different result - then they will never progress pass this circle of violence...so sad
I agree, you summed up all the crimes of Israel perfectly. To be fair most nations have such or similar crimes in their past - the difference is that we don't expect such crimes today. And that we all rightfully condemn such crimes and call for a just solution. And Israel - except their youth (at least that is my impression) - doesn't seem to be willing to be part of the solution but they make it worse again and again.
I condemn their response to the Hamas progrom of the 7th of october. They have had the chance to stop this spiral of violence which they, too, brought to the world but they decided to stay within this spiral ...
But this
... please rephrase.
I mean do you think the killing of civilians could be justified if they don't have the values you would expect them to have although they didn't commit one single crime? And that you can decide if it's decent or not? And wouldn't this thought not also legitimise the killing of the Palestinians because they support their government as well?
Apart from that thought the killing of civilians is considered as a war crime.
And please they didn't only kill civilians, they murdered them, they slaughtered them and they tortured them: old women, young women and kids. And surely old men, young men and boys, too. Didn't you see the videos of the girls with the blood in the crotch of their pants? Can you even imagine what they had to endure? Did you see the cheering crowd? And don't forget the hostages and what they have to endure.
If we tell this story correctly we can't leave out that Hamas is a terror organisation with the aim to wipe out Israel. The progrom of the 7th October was one part, they have fired thousands of missiles since then and they use the Palestines, their civilians, as shields against the Israelis.
If you argue that terror comes from oppression I won't say anything against but it's no solution. For a solution oppression and terror has to stop.
There are 10,000 political prisoners in Israel from Palestine at this moment. In comparison to the 224 political prisoners from Israel currently trapped in Gaza. Hamas offered a trade of all prisoners for one another - Everyone for Everyone. Bibi rejected it.
You can argue the methods of which Hamas has chosen to go about liberating Palestine from Israeli occupation - mass civilian death - makes them a terrorist organization, but the goal of ending the Israeli occupation via the only solution possible, the end of the Zionist state, does not make one inherently a terrorist. That is Zionist language that frames the desire to end apartheid as an inherently terroristic belief. Literally all of the secular, Marxist military groups from the PFLP to the DFLP are working alongside Hamas, focusing their efforts on taking out military outposts and destroying the US-provided weapons that kill their parents, siblings, children. They're fighting a genocidal evil no differently than those who fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
It is increasingly clear that this conflict will never end until Israeli apartheid ends. Israeli apartheid won't end until the Zionist state itself ceases to exist. Israeli settlers will not stop subjugating Palestinians until forced to live amongst them, in a singular secular state, forced to co-exist as equals where an artificial ethnic majority is not imposed.
100,000+ Palestinians murdered since the occupation started. Over 800,000 more displaced with that number possibly tripling in the next few weeks. A diaspora of over 6M.
Being against Palestine being free from the river to the sea is a moral failure at this point.
