tequila4kapp said:
It is completely and totally rational for Israeli's to think there are no innocents in Gaza. Gazans have chosen to be represented by a string of political entities who all share the belief that Israel must go and Jews must be killed; all of them have committed terrorism against Israel. Gazans participated in surprise attack on Israel. Gazans have housed / hidden Israeli prisoners; their homes are used to store weapons for Hamas; they celebrate in the street when returned prisoners are paraded about before being released back to Israel; they have seen 10+ years of Hamas attacks on Israel and done nothing. If you are Israeli it is not genodical to believe Gazans are not innocent.
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is genocidal to genocide the Gazans, which is what Israel has been doing. I don't believe that the majority of Israeli are innocent either, but I don't advocate their genocide.
Almost all Gazans are civilians refugees from Palestine who were ethnically cleansed in 1948
Nakba, where populations of entire villages like Deir Yassir or Tantura were massacred by terrorist groups like Irgun and Stern gang, which became the "IDF". Literally hundreds of Palestinian villages were wiped off the map, and the survivors fled to Gaza and the West Bank.
There is nothing that Hamas did on October 7 that the Israelis did not do on a larger scale and with greater horror in many documented massacres, from 1948 to the current mass slaughter. In fact the Israelis have demonstrated savagery and sadism on a unprecedented scale.
In order to justify this mass slaughter, you have to resort to lies like stating that Palestinians want "Jews to be killed", or that the Palestinians were the party that initiated the violence in Gaza, as if events events like the Israelis shooting 8,000 peaceful protestors with live ammunition only a few years ago never happened.
Your stance is basically a symptom of decades of Israeli propaganda and gaslighting. That spell has been lifted in many parts of the world, notably in Europe, and also in America among younger people who didn't grow up with the same level of brainwashing and don't rely on cable TV, newsprint and astroturfed right wing sites for their world views.