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M Velazquez's avatar

Netanyahu and many of his cronies are murderous schmucks. But what they say and the actual policies enacted are different things. Similarly other "noted scholars" and survivors disagree with your take and the numbers bear that out. I am not saying the loss of life is acceptable but it is not uniquely barbaric and it is not genocide. If Israel was truly bombing indiscriminately then the casualty numbers would be radically higher and if they were seeking "ethnic cleansing," what of the Arabs and Christians within their own borders? Consider that Assad murdered 500,000 Syrians and the world uproar was virtually nil. Consider what is happening in Congo, Nigeria, Armenia and how little attention is being paid. Why? Because the conflict in Gaza is being covered on social media in real time and war is brutal, bloody, and vile.

I note you didn't address any of my other points. You can call me disgusting all you like but language matters and your foaming rage is palpable.

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Ed Boone's avatar

You can disagree and 'both sides the argument concerning the scholars and survivors but I would implore you to look further into who they are and what motives you may be missing. If you're going to talk about "numbers bearing out" cite them. My guess is they don't exist. "Loss of life", and "not uniquely barbaric" are just another way for you to rationalize genocide which is pretty gross and very telling. It is exactly what is happening regardless of your softening language. People much smarter than you have already laid out the case for it including members of the Israeli community. The fact you think they're not bombing indiscriminately while you see major parts of Gaza completely flattened for miles and ignore all the videos of women, children, and young men blown to pieces, suffocated under rubble, sniped, starved to death, and on and on to the tune of at least 11,000 tells me and everyone here that you don't place any value to Palestinian lives and are here to spread lies and propaganda. Absolutely vile.

You can discuss other parts of the world as if this is the only place people bring attention to atrocities but you can't take back your display of utter disregard for Palestinian lives. You've lost your humanity and it shows based on your statements. It is not a war when one side is a nuclear power with the most sophisticated intelligence apparatus on the planet and a powerful military and the only resistance shown is men dressed in plain clothes paragliding and driving in packed trucks with rifles conveniently untouched for 6 hours as they murdered innocent civilians and IDF soldiers. Netanyahu had been supporting Hamas for years and publications in Israel have reported that.

I didn't address your point because you called apartheid a "partition" which is intentional and ridiculous considering human rights organizations and legal experts have classified it as such under international law. Yes, I'm angry but that doesn't make me wrong, that just shows that I care about people dying and you, not so much.

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