IDF sniper kills two women inside Gaza church, Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem says
IDF sniper kills two women inside Gaza church, Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem says

IDF sniper kills two women inside Gaza church, Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem says | CNN

So the Hamas oct 7 terror attack (which we all condemn) hit about 1/3 security forces and 2/3 civilians.
And Israel is hitting like 90% civilians in Gaza, and even civilians in the West Bank and Lebanon, where Hamas and Hezbollah are or were keeping low.
I always thought it was a terrorist organization against an Apartheid state.
But it seems to look more and more like a terrorist state against freedom fighters.
The Jews have lost the plot and what's worse is that on a very, very visceral level you can't discuss it rationally with them.
"It's us or them".
"They want to wipe us out"
"Remember the Holocaust"
What's horrible is I think most normal people understand that perspective and to some extent we get the deep seeded concern and driver to their actions.
They are punishing a people because of the actions of a few which is bad enough as it is but those people have also been caged for so long with no adequate leadership or organization to do anything about, well, anything.
I'm saying this as a non-Jew with 3 half-Jewish kids. I love the people... But as a nation they need to reflect on themselves not just on recent actions but historically.
I'm going to go to my grave on this, but what has happened to them was horrible and on par with numerous atrocities over the world. Indigenous people were wiped out. Africa was raped and put into bondage for centuries. But what you have in Israel is different.
I think at it's core they continue to not be over The Holocaust. Hurt people hurt people.
Nothing is going to change until the state of Israel changes their approach. Or they can hide behind American hegemony and continue making the ME less safe for them.
Sorry on the rant. It's frustrating. I'm miles away in Canada but anti-Semitism is on the rise everywhere and this bullshit behaviour by a shitstain leader is making things less safe for the people I know.
Hey fun fact. Has anyone actually asked why Anti-Semitism is so sharply on the rise?
Because a lot of governments and organizations actually define criticism of the government of Israel as Anti-Semitism. So they're counting every celebrity, every forum post, and every protestor.
We should be very careful about our labels. Just as we don't want to say all Palestinians are not Hamas. We should not say all Jews are Israel. The government and country of Israel is separate from the ethnicity and separate from the religion. Even though many people speaking on behalf of the country of Israel conflate the labels of the religion and the ethnicity we should be better.
I realize you clarify things by the end of your post, but the first sentence of your post paints with a broad brush stroke
Many, many Jews have been harsh critics of Israel, going all the way back to its founding. Don't lump them in with the terrorists running Israel.
"Was..." but TOTALLY not now.
You meant 'condemn', right?
Yes, fixed
Hold on let him cook...
Correction: If you count all casualties as caused by Hamas it's 1/3 security and 2/3 civilians. The IDF racked up a decent Israeli body count (as contradictory as that is) in their response to the attack so the actual ratio has even fewer civilians.
It is compulsory for all Israelis to do military service. In a way, some civilians in the concert are also soldiers. I have no idea how I would look at it but let's not exclude the military service.
Correction: allegedly it hit 2/3 civilians. Reports suggest that IDF soldiers have been told to shoot without asking who they are shooting is going around. Other reports suggest they are trying to hide information and rejecting to invistigate these deaths because it doesn't matter and "there are many of them".
If we learn anything in the last few weeks is that the number is generously inflated.
We should have source links for such claims. Misinformation makes us weaker at deciding what’s right and wrong; every claim like this reasonably needs verification.