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well on one side you have huge military on other side you have a pile of rocks that used to be a city. so comparing these its does not make israel look better.

codingisfreedom 1mo ago
These pile of rocks were funded by Qatar and that money could’ve been used to build schools instead of funding Hamas tunnels.
- nujabe 1mo ago
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- Georgelemental 1mo ago
  > These pile of rocks were funded by Qatar Because Israel begged them to! https://original.antiwar.com/scott/2023/10/27/netanyahus-support-for-hamas-backfired-2/ https://original.antiwar.com/scott/2023/10/27/netanyahus-sup... "Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas" —Benjamin Netanyahu
- lenkite 1mo ago
  Wasn't Hamas technically funded by Natanyahu for the explicit goal of dividing Palestinian leadership and to ensure that extremists had both money and power so that he always had justification to wipe out Palestine ? Look at how evil this group is -> genocide of their entire state is good! (Don't look at the fact that I demanded that this group is explicitly funded - that is not important)
  - robertoandred 1mo ago
    No, it wasn’t.
    - lenkite 1mo ago
      Yes, it was. https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
      - robertoandred 1mo ago
        That says Qatar funded it.
        lenkite 1mo ago
        Israel is the nanny-state that has ABSOLUTE control over what money goes in and out of Gaza and WHO it goes to.
- moogly 1mo ago
  > These pile of rocks were funded by Qatar and that money could’ve been used to build schools Just so Israel would have had more schools to bomb.
AuthAuth 1mo ago
I dont care about making Isreal look good. I'm just pointing out that both sides use violent rhetoric because as you can see from this thread people did not know. I think sometimes people forget that the war was started intentionally with full knowledge what would happen.
- colordrops 1mo ago
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  - judah 1mo ago
    > european zionist invaders I never thought I'd see this kind of blatant anti-semitism on HN. Jews in Europe were persecuted for hundreds of years as foreign invaders told to go back to their homeland. Immediately after the Holocaust, we realized it was time to return to our own country; we could not rely on the kindness of European nations. And now that we have returned, we're labelled invaders of our own nation, our historic homeland of 3,500 years. But Jews have been in Jerusalem longer than the British have been in London. We built Tel Aviv from a desert into a modern city. We rebuilt Jerusalem and opened it up to Muslims, Christians, and Jews. It's wild historic revisionism to claim Jews are stealing Arab lands. There are over 30 Muslim- and Arab-majority nations. There is only a single Jewish nation: our historic, 3,500 year old homeland: Israel.
    - customguy 1mo ago
      People are responsible for their actions, and big, racist buckets labelled "Jews" and "Arabs" are meaningless. Might as well say "humans always lived here, I'm a human, so it's my land now". If this is the level of thought these crimes are defended with, oh boy.
      - judah 1mo ago
        Do you hold the same standard for native Americans? And yes, people are responsible for their actions. Hamas, an Islamic fundamentalist group whose founding charter calls for the violent overthrow of the world's only Jewish state, started a war on October 7th, 2023. Israel fought back and won, and now Hamas is paying dearly for what they did.
magic_hamster 1mo ago
But only one side did October 7th and seems like they had more than sticks and stones. It would appear as if someone (Hamas) decided to literally put every penny they had into weaponizing Gaza, even going as far as tearing water pipes out of the ground to make rockets which they fire on Israeli civilian population.
- bjourne 1mo ago
  You would also do what you could to break out of a concentration camp.
- elzbardico 1mo ago
  Yeah, like the french resistance.
- johnnyApplePRNG 1mo ago
  It was NOT only one side that did October 7th. Look it up. Netanyahu has been funding Hamas indirectly for decades.
  - AuthAuth 1mo ago
    You should look up that claim yourself. Its not solid and doesnt refute the point at all.

codingisfreedom 1mo ago

These pile of rocks were funded by Qatar and that money could’ve been used to build schools instead of funding Hamas tunnels.

nujabe 1mo ago
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Georgelemental 1mo ago
> These pile of rocks were funded by Qatar Because Israel begged them to! https://original.antiwar.com/scott/2023/10/27/netanyahus-support-for-hamas-backfired-2/ https://original.antiwar.com/scott/2023/10/27/netanyahus-sup... "Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas" —Benjamin Netanyahu
lenkite 1mo ago
Wasn't Hamas technically funded by Natanyahu for the explicit goal of dividing Palestinian leadership and to ensure that extremists had both money and power so that he always had justification to wipe out Palestine ? Look at how evil this group is -> genocide of their entire state is good! (Don't look at the fact that I demanded that this group is explicitly funded - that is not important)
- robertoandred 1mo ago
  No, it wasn’t.
  - lenkite 1mo ago
    Yes, it was. https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
    - robertoandred 1mo ago
      That says Qatar funded it.
      - lenkite 1mo ago
        Israel is the nanny-state that has ABSOLUTE control over what money goes in and out of Gaza and WHO it goes to.
moogly 1mo ago
> These pile of rocks were funded by Qatar and that money could’ve been used to build schools Just so Israel would have had more schools to bomb.

AuthAuth 1mo ago

I dont care about making Isreal look good. I'm just pointing out that both sides use violent rhetoric because as you can see from this thread people did not know. I think sometimes people forget that the war was started intentionally with full knowledge what would happen.

colordrops 1mo ago
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- judah 1mo ago
  > european zionist invaders I never thought I'd see this kind of blatant anti-semitism on HN. Jews in Europe were persecuted for hundreds of years as foreign invaders told to go back to their homeland. Immediately after the Holocaust, we realized it was time to return to our own country; we could not rely on the kindness of European nations. And now that we have returned, we're labelled invaders of our own nation, our historic homeland of 3,500 years. But Jews have been in Jerusalem longer than the British have been in London. We built Tel Aviv from a desert into a modern city. We rebuilt Jerusalem and opened it up to Muslims, Christians, and Jews. It's wild historic revisionism to claim Jews are stealing Arab lands. There are over 30 Muslim- and Arab-majority nations. There is only a single Jewish nation: our historic, 3,500 year old homeland: Israel.
  - customguy 1mo ago
    People are responsible for their actions, and big, racist buckets labelled "Jews" and "Arabs" are meaningless. Might as well say "humans always lived here, I'm a human, so it's my land now". If this is the level of thought these crimes are defended with, oh boy.
    - judah 1mo ago
      Do you hold the same standard for native Americans? And yes, people are responsible for their actions. Hamas, an Islamic fundamentalist group whose founding charter calls for the violent overthrow of the world's only Jewish state, started a war on October 7th, 2023. Israel fought back and won, and now Hamas is paying dearly for what they did.

magic_hamster 1mo ago

But only one side did October 7th and seems like they had more than sticks and stones. It would appear as if someone (Hamas) decided to literally put every penny they had into weaponizing Gaza, even going as far as tearing water pipes out of the ground to make rockets which they fire on Israeli civilian population.

bjourne 1mo ago
You would also do what you could to break out of a concentration camp.
elzbardico 1mo ago
Yeah, like the french resistance.
johnnyApplePRNG 1mo ago
It was NOT only one side that did October 7th. Look it up. Netanyahu has been funding Hamas indirectly for decades.
- AuthAuth 1mo ago
  You should look up that claim yourself. Its not solid and doesnt refute the point at all.