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.
When people use but in this context, it’s not a rationalization, it’s a contextualization. For some reason we keep going back like Israel has done absolutely nothing wrong in any capacity, and that’s just plainly false.
Surely you can at least admit that Israel has not created an environment conducive towards peace.
The way we talk doesn’t lend itself well to making geopolitical statements vs valuation statements. Did Israel’s government create the circumstances that led to this – yes, geopolitically speaking. But in terms of making a value statement, I lay the full blame at the actual murderers’ feet.
Obviously not every Palestinian murders civilians. Nothing can justify that. The terrorists are still bad people and squarely to blame, Israel’s actions just pointed them in a direction.