Originally posted by rudester
My friend just sent me a video circulating on tiktok about a Palestinian family coming back to their home, only to find a Jewish family already living there. The Jewish family was not letting them in and the video said that the Palestinian family had lived in that home for generations.
Not that displacement hasn't happened, but that sounds like manufactured bullshit.
I think Hamas is definitely a bad guy in this situation. I also think there is no such thing as acceptable collateral damage in israel's response. However, it will absolutely be what happens. It's the same as the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq. Thousands upon thousands of innocent people died in those "justified" wars as well. It's all wrong.
Governments are too big. In a small village society, no one person could ruin the lives of millions (such as Putin). They simply wouldn't have the power. The existence of the large nations is the cause of a lot of suffering.
Originally posted by rudester
If you are taking territory of other people and forcing them out, you are the bad guy. Isreal wants Gaza, Israel will do anything to have Gaza. Just like Russia wanted Ukraine territory, it is the same story.
Yeah, they definitely shouldn't try to make Gaza a part of Israel, but going in and destroying Hamas seems reasonable.
Originally posted by rudester
If you are taking territory of other people and forcing them out, you are the bad guy. Isreal wants Gaza, Israel will do anything to have Gaza. Just like Russia wanted Ukraine territory, it is the same story.
It's not so cut and dry, as Israel has given back land it has previously captured in other wars.
We'll see what they take (if anything) after they're done destroying Hamas and demolishing the Gaza strip.