Bodies of Israeli residents and Palestinian militants lay outside of burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after Hamas launched a large-scale surprise assault on Israel, sending heavily armed fighters pouring across the border from Gaza and rampaging through rural communities.
Already ~260 Palestinian children have been killed. That number is only going to go up. No sympathy for them? What about sympathy for the Palestinians living under the rule of Israel and Hamas who haven’t had a real election in almost two decades, and whose oppressors can be best described as ‘bad’ (Israel) and ‘worse’ (Hamas)?
People miss this like it’s some ideological struggle. Like siding with Palestine or Israel inherently are causes with some abstract values attached to them. They’re not, not at their core. It’s just a blood feud. It’s just one big, abhorrent, ugly blood feud with no end in sight.
We should have listened to Hannah Arendt.
Are we doing a dead child competition? In a thread about slaughtered children, what-abouting other slaughtered children is pretty callous. Here is one of multiple stories that cover the monstrosities happening to Palestinian children. Now that the dead child reporting is fair and balanced can we get back to mourning the tragedy that this thread is about?
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/feels-safe-palestinians-fear-israeli-airstrikes-continue-hamas/story?id=103861511
No, that’s the fucking point. Losing track of sympathy for the people on the ground is dehumanization and to be avoided, regardless of the horrific crimes of Hamas. I was responding specifically to the commenter aoove me in the chain.
What the hell are you even talking about. You’re just using talking points.
Media loves Palestinians. Guess what - Hamas, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, they all love when you conflate them with the poor Palestinians. But they are separate. Palestinians get screwed by Hamas, etc. Western media coverage is deeply problematic. You should know this by now with all the disinformation campaigns online the past 7 years.
To answer your question, there is a shitload of sympathy for them. But you don’t get to do unrepentant violence. Raping and murdering babies.
Please do not ignore Palestinian leaders who steal aid from their own people, brainwash their children to hate Jews, and spout rhetoric that the Jews caused the Holocaust.
Please do not reduce it to a blood feud. It only shows you’re a morally outraged outsider and got no clue. This is hate and racism. It’s middle eastern politics. It’s a proxy war, and it’s a tale of having democracy in a deeply corrupt and autocratic region.
The best thing you can do is stay out of it and stick to your peaceful talking point. Because that’s what we need. Not more uneducated “advocates.” It serves no one.
do you realize 40% of gaza populations is children under 14? do you realize the west bank has nothing to do with this?
Didn’t realize those 260 children were secret Hamas-Iranian-Syrian-Lebanese agents. I apologize.
Don’t know where I said that was okay, but go off, I guess.
Again, I don’t know where I said otherwise, but keep tilting at that windmill.
… what exactly do you think a blood feud is, if not hate and racism? I’m curious.
That’s some ‘they hate us for our freedumbs’ level post-9/11 spirit, right there.
You’re beyond out of touch. Are you from the region?
Would you call systemic racism in the USA a blood feud? Would you call white supremacy a blood feud? I think all the words you’re using don’t mean what you think they mean.
Nobody gives a fuck about Palestininan children since 1948. Why would they start caring now.