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> Excuse the Palestine side as if they were naive children. I am not seeing this anywhere, unless being treated as civilians (which they mostly are) is now equ

• megaman821 3y ago
  It depends on the characterization you give Palestinian citizens; are they captives of Hamas, are they complicit in Hamas holding hostages and firing rockets at civilians, or are they just part of Hamas?
  • selimthegrim 3y ago
    Hamas has said that civilians are responsibility of UNRWA and ICRC. This has gotten them in for some criticism from said civilians.
• jddj 3y ago
  One of my filter bubbles presents me with something similar to what the parent is seeing, for another datapoint. There are extremely different narratives which one can be presented with. In one, the pro-palestine marches have been commandeered by russia/iran and/or neonazis, to the extent of chanting 30's era slogans and marking people's homes based on their Jewishness. The on the ground atrocities and brutal tactics of Hamas are hilighted against the humanness of Israeli victims. In another, Israel, aided by the US, is committing the systematic genocide of a severely underdefended population and there's an unspoken understanding of how Hamas could have arisen in such conditions. There's a sense that everything Hamas is doing is ineffectual and anyway reactive. The on the ground atrocities pale in comparison to the Israeli-sourced on the ground atrocities due to the imbalance of power and an implied overarching guilt / causality.