Israeli minister: 'We are fighting human animals'

First, only the sith (and the ignorant) deal in absolutes. Second, it's fair and right to feel for the people attacked by the Hamas, and fair and right to acknowledge the apartheid state of Israel that created them.

1. Palestine doesn't have elections thanks to Hamas.
2. Living in a concentration camp for decades fucks with people and their moral compass.

Palestinians don't necessarily support Hamas but support the greater cause of Palestinian sovereignty and human rights. Maybe they want to live like Human Beings instead of being treated like subhumans.

And to add to it, Israel regularly does unimaginable vile things to Palestinians. It will only make Palestinians resent Israel more and more.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

This is the ugly side of that. Hamas are a vile organisation full of hateful antisemites. They're also the inevitable result of every decision Isreal has made in Palestine. When people are being violently oppressed every day of their lives, that fosters hatred. When people have nothing left to lose, that fosters violence. When people have been abused for generations, they inevitably want revenge.

It's a disgusting double standard to forgive Israel's crimes, but demand that the Palestinians be perfect little angels who never feel any resentment or anger in their hearts.

In the end, it's not about who has done right or wrong, it's about who holds the power, and that has always been Isreal. So it is Isreal who bears the moral responsibility to end this conflict peacefully (and the western world supporting Isreal bears an equal responsibility to use our power to make that peace the most appealing option).

That election was 17 years ago. Most people living in Gaza right now weren't old enough back then to be allowed to vote.

I mean Hamas was the best option available. It just so happens to be the only group left fighting and resisting. Israel admitted that it did this on purpose; fought off all the other progressive groups but propped up Hamas.

You're an idiot.

Which cultural group do you want to be lumped into for genocide? I guarantee there's one that wants your race, whatever it is, exterminated. Hopefully for your sake they're not in power at the moment.

Did Hamas win 100% of the vote? No. But you're ok with the destruction of an entire culture because of frustrating choices made by some people made in the context of generations of oppression? Sounds like racism to me.

Aye I was making my comment in part to humanize the people we call terrorists.

As soon as I've seen your instance - your comment makes sense. Thanks for your opinion I guess lol.

You have a good point I was a bit too black and white with my comment. There definitely seems to be a correlation between size and violence of terrorist groups, and the human rights of the area they riside in.

Also totally agree that it can happen to me. Gotta acknowledge that you don't really know anything and you are pretty much always just taking someone's word for things. I believe the Earth is round, but I'm just taking people's word for it.

When Argentina occupied the Falkland Islands, the UK military who fought them weren't described as a terrorist organisation. Not by anyone with an ounce of sense at least, and certainly not by the islanders who's land and homes had been occupied.

*Israel Minister.

And Hamas also thinks jews are no humans, so yes, there is no difference.

I've always wanted to find sources of the monarchy calling American revolutionaries terrorists. Maybe that language wasn't prevalent then.

What do you think about hamas killing innocent people, children?

Well, many are not antiwar if you look at the bloods and crips, only a few are antiwar.

That is why I made sure to post that antiwar.com is antiwar, I can't use them as a news source on lemmy due to "left" bias stance.