Mods can move it if they want. Anyways, I think it's important to scrutinize the alleged justification for what's transpiring in Gaza, apart from highlighting the atrocities being committed by the Israelis as in the other thread. ...And for the record, I denounce terrorism, or politically motivated organized violence conducted against civilians — whether by the Palestinians, the Israelis or the US government for that matter.Couldn’t you have just posted this in the other “ oh the poor terrorists” thread ?
Understood.
I don't know that sympathy is required. What I am advocating is old fashioned international law and humanitarian law. Even if Hamas did every bad thing claimed and worse, that would not justify Israel's response in my view. ...By your telling (And assuming "support" includes one's thoughts alone), that leaves 1 innocent in 4 killed, displaced or starved. But the intention of this thread is to look deeper into what actually happened on October 7, as that is not just the strategic justification but more importantly the emotional justification for everything that's transpired since. Did you watch the documentary?
It's really easy to say that as a white guy typing safely on his keyboard from his quiet home in Australia, surrounded by nice guitars. Hopefully you don't get reincarnated as a Palestinian.
Maybe they should have kept their hands to themselves and behaved like civilised human beings. It sucks to be a predator when you become the prey.It's really easy to say that as a white guy typing safely on his keyboard from his quiet home in Australia, surrounded by nice guitars. Hopefully you don't get reincarnated as a Palestinian.
That's a buddhist concept. I once pissed off a close friend of mine who turned buddhist by suggesting I'd like to come back as a tree because it would be real handy deer hunting.It's really easy to say that as a white guy typing safely on his keyboard from his quiet home in Australia, surrounded by nice guitars. Hopefully you don't get reincarnated as a Palestinian.
I have to admit I didn't. Is it really a documentary or just some anti-zionist's YT video ?
I think it's more objective than anything I've seen from the western media. I added a link in case you don't want to have to sign in.
Egypt is building a holding pen because they are concerned that Israel will literally push them across the border. But as I've mentioned, it would be destabilizing for any country to accept 2.5 million refugees at once. And it could make Egypt a target if the Palestinians continued their campaign to reclaim their land.
The Arab world screams for justice for the Palestinians but won’t let them in to their countries, there is a reason for that.
Their own survival? The political situation in Egypt is more tenuous than Connecticut for example... Who knows who is in that group of 2.5M?! The Muslim world is not a bloc and there could very well be elements hostile to the Sisi government, among others.
I'm screaming for justice and I wouldn't want them here in the US... That doesn't make me or any of these countries hypocrites.
