@ElijahSchaffer I'm going to out on a limb and say the guys shooting up families in their houses, raping and kidnapping women, are the terrorists, and the fairly precision, pre-warned precision airstrikes in retaliation are justified self-defense.
@UN_Women@free_equal Apples are oranges, up is down, war is peace, freedom is slavery, the sky is green, the emperor has wonderful, resplendent clothes.
@Jonga48263149@sentdefender In 1946 it was a British colony, not a self ruled Arab state. That colony had historic Jewish and Christian communities as well as Arab. Before that it was an ottoman colony, and before that an Arab empire colony, and before that a Roman colony.
@ElijahSchaffer Supporting self defense and counter terrorism operations is not being a "war monger". We were not war mongers when we landed troops in France in 1944 to expel Nazi scum. Hamas are genocidal maniacs who need to be destroyed- they have forfeited the right to live.
@ElijahSchaffer Gaza was given independence in 2005. Within 3 years they were attacking Israel, leading to many of the measures you are criticizing now. Israel cannot just stand passively by while people who want to rape and murder them set about planning and then doing such things.
@rivkahbrown Good to know you think there are circumstances under which you and people you could be justifiably gunned down, sexually assaulted and kidnapped while not actively participating in any aggressive or nefarious activities.
@rivkahbrown It's pretty wild Israel was even still continuing to provide this when they know full well Hamas is never going to stop trying to kill them.
@saidshoaib_gaza Horrific. But I do believe it's true that war will end when Palestinians love their children more than they hate Israelis. This never would have happened had militants from Gaza not carried out atrocities and rocket attacks.
@amber_rj The ukranian woman didn't run around murdering Russian party goers in their own town, kidnapping babies and carrying out rape. Russian soldiers did things like that though.
@muhammadshehad2 It's awful. But Hamas is to blame barring Israeli intelligence failure. They attack Israeli civilians from homes, public institutions and so in and expect Israel to just take it and not respond. No state can accept that, it has a responsibility to protect its citizens from attack
@AMysticMuse We all want these things if we care, but these things are very hard to find as a single person after post college. Often it comes down to good luck of being near a healthy parish. God sees you trying and struggling, he's with you, and today may not be your tomorrow indefinitely.
@FischerKing64 If Hamas or the PLO were given control over everything in dispute, homosexuals would be prosecuted, women would be subjugated, poverty would increase, and Jews and Christians would be oppressed if not killed or deported.
Israel does wrong, but if one must choose, Israel.
@FischerKing64 When push comes to shove, its quite simple. If Israel was given control of all disputed areas, a modicum of political rights would be given its new subjects, public works would be funded, crime would be policed, and varying beliefs tolerated.
@caitoz This was timed for the sabbath, and the end of a major holiday. I don't care how desperate people in Gaza are. If desperation justifies massacres and oppression of innocents, then the world should just burn over and be done. If you can't condemn evil, you are evil.
@caitoz This is such bullshit. Kidnapping children, raping & murdering young women, gunning down people in their homes and on the streets. This isn't resistance. It's pathetic young men excusing orgiastic violence because they aren't creative or decent enough 2 think of something better
@AlanRMacLeod Not accurate. The 1946 map shows the brittish mandate, which was neither "palestinian" nor "jewish" but a UK colonial possession. You're omitting the many Christians who likewise lived and live in all of those maps.