Palestinian uprising on a scale not seen in 50 years just started
Muhammad Al-Deif, the Hamas military commander, called for a general uprising against Israel in a recorded message on Saturday.
God help them. The slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining
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The Israelis have the power to end the political and economic conditions (which they created and maintain) which lead to violence
The Palestinians do not
If you're saddened or angered by the deaths of Israeli civilians, you can take those complaints straight to the Israeli government. Any handwringing about violence committed by the Palestinians is de facto support for the illegal occupation of Palestinian land and the apartheid state of Israel.
Is it hand-wringing to feel upset at civilians being taken hostage? Tell me why I should look an 8-year old Israeli kid in the eye and tell them they deserve what's coming to them
I think it doesn’t help to turn the focal core of what you’re upset with to that, in this moment. Yeah, it sucks. But tell me why I should look a Palestinian 8-year old in the eye and tell them their parents deserved to be tortured and killed. A tiger is backed into a corner and stabbed repeatedly, and swipes out with its claws — if you’re unhappy with who it hits, let’s root for the tiger to liberate itself so there isn’t a need for any swiping. And let’s also be upset with the assholes who would put their children in the way of a cornered tiger as a means of controlling it
If the civilians are lucky, their captors are more humane than the average settler.
Tell me why I should look an 8-year old Israeli kid in the eye and tell them they deserve what's coming to them
Not in the least what I said, but if you need a reason, it's a pretty funny thing to go around doing
Yeah so funny to tell a child they deserved to be hurt
Yes, imagining you going around and telling random Israeli children that is quite funny to me
"Your parents sacrificed you to their blood machine."
Well would do you say to her, asshole?
because 8 year old Palestinians are murdered constantly, this isnt a difficult moral situatuation
Yes
There is no such thing as an Israeli civilian. All settlers are valid targets.