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.
Pretending to be talking about good and evil is defending murdering children. 300 children (according to The Guardian who quotes Palestine authorities) died from Israel strikes already. It’s not like killing in uniform and with “precision” strikes is less killing.
It is exactly both sides, although there are qualitative (hamas raids of innocents were somewhat more brutal and violent) and quantitative (many more palestinians dead) differences.
Then there is the whole historical analysis which is a whole other debate.
What the hell are you talking about good and evil for?
Have I so far defended Israel’s response? No, and I don’t actually agree with their response either. The proper approach wasn’t to escalate and as they are in the position of power they have that choice. That still doesn’t mean I’ll go in threads defending actions that have lead to baby murdering, something so vile and heartless that only a blind ideologue could ever defend it or use it as a “but they were worse” argument.
Blind ideologues might hate it, but sometimes the two sides are shit, and in the case of IDF and Hamas, they both are, and Palestinians are in between. That still doesn’t give anyone the right to kill children.