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The Israel/Palestine situation is ugly. Really ugly. I see both sides. Skipping decades of history: - Israel: After the last attack, Israel is all done being r

The Israel/Palestine situation is ugly. Really ugly. I see both sides. Skipping decades of history: - Israel: After the last attack, Israel is all done being randomly bombarded and attacked. They are gong to hunt down and eliminate Hamas. - Palestine. The vast majority of the civilians are innocent. They didn't attack anyone. Hamas just uses them as human shields. Given the hardened and ingrained hatreds on all sides, there is no solution here.

megous 3y ago
You don't see both sides, that's pretty clear from your descrition. And the original event is about an IT/devops engineer for the air force not wanting to be even this remotely part of Israeli mass attrocities/genocide/whatever you want to call starvation to death/murder/massacring of millions of people so that he demonstratively killed himself. So one side is this man and his moral compass, and the other is US air foce and US gov. supplying Israel with a huge amount of weapons and support for the massacres. This website netizens tend to blab sometimes about morality and taking a stand against bad/marginally illegal managerial decisions. Well this one IT engineer made an ultimate stand, and nobody here even upvotes to give visibility to his story. Instead there's more of the same "I got billed too much for using service without fixed rates/billing cap, please help" bullshit getting hundreds of upvotes.
- bradley13 3y ago
  I think I understand two sides: Israel and the Palestinian civilians. I did not go into why the Gaza strip exists, which is another story entirely, and certainly doesn't fit in a single HN comment. The third side, I suppose, is Hamas. They have a viewpoint: by attacking Israel and then hiding behind civilians, they can create outrage. For that viewpoint, I have zero sympathy.

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The Israel/Palestine situation is ugly. Really ugly. I see both sides. Skipping decades of history: - Israel: After the last attack, Israel is all done being r

by bradley13 3y ago

megous 3y ago
You don't see both sides, that's pretty clear from your descrition. And the original event is about an IT/devops engineer for the air force not wanting to be even this remotely part of Israeli mass attrocities/genocide/whatever you want to call starvation to death/murder/massacring of millions of people so that he demonstratively killed himself. So one side is this man and his moral compass, and the other is US air foce and US gov. supplying Israel with a huge amount of weapons and support for the massacres. This website netizens tend to blab sometimes about morality and taking a stand against bad/marginally illegal managerial decisions. Well this one IT engineer made an ultimate stand, and nobody here even upvotes to give visibility to his story. Instead there's more of the same "I got billed too much for using service without fixed rates/billing cap, please help" bullshit getting hundreds of upvotes.
- bradley13 3y ago
  I think I understand two sides: Israel and the Palestinian civilians. I did not go into why the Gaza strip exists, which is another story entirely, and certainly doesn't fit in a single HN comment. The third side, I suppose, is Hamas. They have a viewpoint: by attacking Israel and then hiding behind civilians, they can create outrage. For that viewpoint, I have zero sympathy.