• DoYouNot@lemmy.world
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    You’d best be willing to extend that logic to all Israelis then, as the crimes of “settlers” and others Israeli civilians against Palestinians are very well documented.

    But we’re just starting with a conclusion here, aren’t we?

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      Meh. Hamas is the government of Gaza. It’s more like blaming Germans for the actions of the Nazis. They did share some responsibility.

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        Again, I really hope you can see how your logic works in reverse. In so far as all Palestinians are guilty, all Israelis are as well.

        Propaganda can really cook a brain, eh?

        From my perspective, we’ve got two rogue terrorist organizations murdering civilians en mass - one much more well funded and more effective at slaughter than the other.

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          “propaganda is when someone disagrees with me, the arbiter of all truth” lol

          Hamas isn’t a rogue organization, it’s the popular government of Gaza

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            The IDF isnt a rogue organization, its the military arm of the elected Israeli government. Also Palestine hasn’t had an election since 2006 so 18 years ago. Notably older than all of the children the IDF is bombing, and hardly representative of the rest of Palestine.

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              Of course the IDF isn’t rogue. What they’re doing is normal war stuff. War is bad. Don’t start wars.

              Also Palestine hasn’t had an election since 2006 so 18 years ago

              And opinion polls tell us they’d be reelected if there was one, so, doesn’t matter

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                  Guerilla warfare is the warfare of the poor. Terrorism is the intentional targeting of civilians. The fact that you’re apologizing for that by trying to equate it with war just reveals your depravity and immorality.

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                    So killing civilians is deplorable? If you read with eyes unclouded, you’d see I haven’t defended anything of the like. I’m equating this ‘war’ with terrorism. What Israel continues to commit daily is terrorism of the same kind as October 7th, on a scale so much more vast they’re hard to compare.

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            Man you sure aren’t addressing any of their points, are you? Just keep dodging the subject, I’m sure you’ll get away with it eventually…

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              Oct 7 changed my mind on this subject. I was all about calling Israelis aggressors and such before I realized just how depraved the Palestinian penchant for aggression was

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                  No good person could have possibly supported such an event, and yet, something like 90% of Gazans did. Really opened my eyes.

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                    No good person could possibly be supporting such a genocide, and yet, you are. Really opened my eyes.

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            Then we have two popular government organizations murdering civilians en mass - one much more well funded and more effective at slaughter than the other. The logic still must hold in reverse, no?

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        Cool, so when Fuckface 45 was president, all things his fault were all also the fault of each of the 330 million Americans?

        Fucking troll.

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          To some degree, yes. We all bear responsibility for the actions of our elected leaders.

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            You’re saying 80% of the entire population of the US; counting those who didn’t or couldn’t vote (for myriad reasons: suppression, age, disability, abstaining, etc.) and those who voted for Hilary…they are all equally as responsible as the mere 20% who did vote for Fuckface 45, AND his actions?

            Nah man, that’s literally brain dead thinking.This might be the dumbest fucking statement I’ve read on the Internet in years. It sounds more like a parroted “opinion”, rather than a conclusion based on logic.

            Because then you get to keep the same mentality for Gaza, instead of realizing that maybe it’s not as black and white as that. You’d have to stop and think about that, but you don’t want to.

            Because thinking is scary. It’s hard. And it shows how gray the world really is, and that terrifies you. You NEED to hide behind this kind of thinking, because you can’t handle an uncertain world.

            Sorry, the world is not black and white. It’s very uncertain, and sooner or later, that reality is gonna bite you in the ass real fucking hard.

            Hope you’re prepared.

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        In this war the Israelis/IDF are the Nazis in control of Palestine from the outside, and Hamas are the Nazis in control inside Palestine. Palestinians are victims (not necessarily entirely innocent), but also not really given another option either. Palestinians are largely controlled by Hamas and everything is controlled by Israel, and both see Palestinians as pawns and human shields/targets.

        For the sake of discussion, I’ll ignore the fact that even if the Palestinian neighbours knew about the hostages and went to the IDF, they’d probably be tortured/killed just in case. So choosing not to alert the IDF isn’t necessarily support for Hamas, and could very well be an aversion to the IDF bombing and executing the shit out of your neighbours.

        The best way to survive is being invisible, and I wouldn’t blame someone for wanting to be invisible when the city they live in is a cage/prison that is being bombed to hell and both armies are very happy to kill Palestinians.

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          It’s more like Hamas is happy to see Palestinians dead so they can be used as propaganda pieces for their interminable war and the Israelis have been radicalized enough by decades of unending Palestinian aggression that they don’t care much any more about Palestinian casualties.

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            Don’t forget unending Israeli oppression.

            Of the two parties, Israel is far and away the biggest threat, because that’s how the country was designed from the ground up.

            (Akin to how the US is still a slave state, because of how it’s run, and how it was built from the ground up)

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        Erm, Germany has paid for the actions of the nazis, and many of those on top were trialed and jailed. Germany has paid lots of reparations as well, and monuments were erected. Nazi guilt is also very much present in the German culture and history. Can’t wait to see the same happening with Israel… I won’t hold my breath.

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          West Germany did not pay “lots” of reparations, far from it. It was pumped with money through the Marshall Plan, and Volkswagen & Hugo Boss are still around.

          Very few West German Nazis went to trial or were jailed. Many were placed in prominent positions in the new government and the governments of other NATO countries and in NATO itself.

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          The reason things played out that way is pretty straightforward: fascism is compatible with capitalism, and communism is incompatible with both. The Western capitalist states were more motivated to destroy communism than fascism, and they were happy to use fascism as a weapon against communism.

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          Hamas are the Nazis in this analogy. It’s just that the Poland they decided to invade turns out to be too powerful for them to handle

          I doubt Palestine would be able to pay any significant level of reparations, but I would like to see justice done to any participant in Hamas’s war crimes.

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            Or maybe Hamas are the Jews, but turns out the Jews in this analogy has big modern guns.

            Or many comparing the two to nazis is just a bad comparison?

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              Not really. Hamas is explicitly genocidal, the only reason they haven’t done to Jews what the Nazis did is that they don’t have the competence and power to do so