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There isn't much grey in airstrikes on starving children shivering in tents. No sane, healthy person would approve of such an atrocity.

The israeli political establishment commonly declares genocidal intent against the palestinians, and uses military, sexual, reproductive and other means, including starvation, to realise this intent. This isn't really something to discuss, the reader can just go search for video clips with threats and Amalek rhetoric and how perpetrators of heinous crimes are paraded in israeli television. Whether it will hold in court is uncertain, in part because international law is not just a legal matter.

Buying a corporation that has it's technical division under such a regime seems like a bad idea to me, and I would also find the founders history with that state quite worrying.




there aren’t any airstrikes on starving children shivering in tents if hamas isn’t using their tent for attacking / smuggling / planning terror. what you are doing is inciting hate against A PEOPLE. not criticizing IDF for bad conduct.


Why do you think you're allowed to murder children if they are close to people engaged in legitimate resistance to occupation?

If what I write incite hatred towards the palestinians in you, that's a you problem and you should probably seek out professional help with that.


Terrorism is not legitimate – that’s pretty basic. And I think IDF is allowed to pursue the destruction of Hamas, because that is what international law says. If someone fires rockets that can kill thousands they are a legitimate target.

"IHL prohibits attacks that may be expected to cause excessive incidental civilian harm in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated. In the conduct of hostilities, causing incidental harm to civilians and civilian objects is often unavoidable." – Hamas leadership has planned and is planning attacks on Israeli civilians and destroying the Hamas leadership and militants is of a concrete and direct military advantage.

You should seek out palestinian voices that are interested in peace and life, not a death cult. To call the Hamas leadership "legitimate resistance to occupation" is just sick. They are bathing in luxury while Gazans die. They do not let the population to use their tunnels as bomb shelters. They sell the free humanitarian aid to extremely poor people, forcing the family members to sacrifice life and go join hamas, cause obviously that’s the only source of cash in the strip. You must be hating gazans even more than you hate jews, actually.


What do you mean by "Hamas"? In zionist parlance it is usually a euphemism for palestinians or arabs generally.

Do you get payed for hasbara or do you volunteer for some other reason?

Only a few countries consider Hamas to be a terrorist organisation. It's unlikely Bibi does, since he got Qatar to give him money in suitcases to drive into the Gaza strip, because banks didn't want to touch it due to the risk of sanctions. At the time he didn't think he could get away with genocide, but he likely does now.

There is nothing the armed wings of Hamas, PIJ, PFLP and so on has done or could do in the short to medium term that comes even close to what Israel is doing and has been doing for a very long time. You do not care about international humanitarian law or human life.

I've been looking at footage of maimed small children more or less daily for more than a year. Of course I feel hatred, as would any sane person. The difference between you and me is that I would like to see justice, I would like the perpetrators to be brought to the Hague and given due process, while you spread misinformation in the service of heinous crimes to help facilitate genocide and apartheid.


USA, Canada, the EU, the UK, Japan, New Zealand and Israel – all the countries that matter to me. I don’t care what Russia or Iran or other non-democratic, tyrant led countries designate the terrorists as. Especially the ones doing weapon deals with them.

It is a tragic situation where on both sides people lost families and feeling of safety, yet your concentration on hate doesn’t let you see the complexity and the fact that there are two sides to this conflict. You know nothing about me and what I would like to see.

As I said, there is a big difference between labeling the whole nation genocidal, especially ones who protect their families and criticizing government, specific IDF conduct – you are making hateful generalizations that aren’t going to bring any justice to anyone. You are only fueling hate based on lies.

I disengage. You are lying and your hatred has consumed you.


What "nation"? This is about the state of Israel.




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