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Hamas, as an organization, is founded on the idea that the State of Israel should be destroyed and all Jews should be killed or expelled. Antisemitism is at the
by webmaven 3y ago
Hamas, as an organization, is founded on the idea that the State of Israel should be destroyed and all Jews should be killed or expelled. Antisemitism is at their core.
If Israel has a right to exist, they must deal with existential threats like Hamas.
If you have suggestions for how to do so while doing less harm to the civilian population that Hamas is using as a human shield, I'm all ears.
And if you didn't mean to imply that, why do only Palestinians apparently have an "actual" claim?
- BillyTheMage 3y agoYes, Hamas is evil and anti-semetic. But it was created as a response to evil things Isreal was doing. Like a kid who gets bullied bringing a gun to school because they just fuckin can't take it anymore. It's wrong and they should be stopped, but to ignore the fact that they were pushed to this point by other people who are equally or more awful is just self-defeating. I hope all this isn't coming off as a defense of Hamas. I simply see Hamas and the Israeli state as equally evil, two heads of one machine that does nothing but hurt people.
- webmaven 3y agoAh. So your position is "a pox on both their houses" and implying moral equivalence between the entire state of Israel (which includes plenty of Jewish peace activists, Arab citizens with the right to vote, Druze and Bedouin citizens who serve in the IDF, and much other complexity) and a terrorist organization that deliberately targets civilians by preference while using their own civilian population as a human shield. Pardon me if I don't accept that premise. It isn't that Israel doesn't have any genocidal extremists, because they do. They tend to end up in jail, though.