one is a democratic state that acts aggressively and makes huge mistakes.
the other is a terrorist group that wishes the death of 99.999% of the world, including the vast majority of Muslims.
what the fuck. what is this insane false equivalance?
a "democratic state" that "makes mistakes" and only wants to "kill Hamas in self defence"? I can't believe you're not well aware that you're regurgitating Israeli propaganda here.
people have been framing this in a favourable way for Israel since the beginning, with the redundant calls for people to "denounce Hamas!". Hamas is a terrorist/extremist organisation. it goes without saying that they are deplorable. people in the West begging others to denounce Hamas is a diversionary tactic. look over there! don't look over here!
Israel's government is just that. a government. not a terrorist sect. they are elected to represent their people, but they are acting as a terrorist organisation in the vein of Hamas (except, you know, infinitely more powerful). a government cannot make "mistakes" that result in 11k+ civilian deaths.
enough with this apologist bullshit. look at how many Palestinians have died in the last fifty years, how many have been displaced, how the quality of life for those who have somehow managed to remain has been reduced from something fairly nice to a life lived among rubble and the daily threat of explosions. look at the pictures, see how life was in Gaza then, before bombings became the norm. this is
not self defence. we must
must stop framing this discussion in this way to get anywhere. the Israeli gov and the IDF are terrorists just as Hamas are. and the
vast majority of suffering is that of the Palestinians.
to say this is happening because of a "democratic gov making mistakes" is at best wilfully ignorant.