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Right, but you know hamas believes jews should be wiped from this earth, and you know this current war began because of specific steps Hamas chose to take to attempt to make that goal a reality, you know the mistreatment they have displayed towards the hostages.
So for you to say that there is a 99% chance that Hamas is innocent of these killings, that's a specific choice you are making for conspiricism.
That's irrelevant. They're not in a position where doing so is possible, and killing their only leverage against a technologically and numerically superior force is not in their interest.
The Israeli people thinking that they did, on the other hand, is VERY much in the interest of the IDF.
Nope. Atrocious and barbaric beyond description as it was, October 7th was a political act, not a foolhardy attempt to kill all Jewish people.
Just because they're despicable terrorists doesn't mean that Hamas are stupid enough to think that the total eradication of all Israeli Jews, let alone all Jews worldwide, is something that is in any way possible.
And it's not a war. It's one of the biggest, most powerful, and most technologically advanced militaries in the history of humanity eradicating or displacing an entire people, using a tiny minority (that is nowhere near as much a threat as they pretend) as a pretense.
Talking about Hamas or Israel? Because the only significant differences with regards to hostages is that Israel has hundreds if not thousands as many that they abuse just as horribly as Hamas does theirs.
Again ignoring the qualifier, so I'm gonna make it a little more obvious:
As long as an IDF spokesperson is the ONLY source
Nope, that's a statement of how unreliable the IDF and their spokespeople have proven themselves to be. Repeatedly leaving out that part, though? THAT'S a specific choice.
No, Hamas, beliefs and actions are not irrelevant to the situation we are currently in. That is foolish.
Describing terrorists committing a terrorist act as a "political" action is incredibly forgiving of the behavior of terrorists.
An elected government invading and attacking a different country is an act of war, regardless of whether the nation they attacked is militarily superior. Hamas made a decision to go to war, and claiming they didn't is factually wrong.
I don't personally feel any need to justify the behavior of any right wing religious fundamentalist organization against their hostages. The fact that we are in a situation where two organizations fitting that description are behaving badly and you have chosen a side says something about you that it doesn't me.
Watching you go above and beyond the things you're accusing somebody else of has been entertaining.
We get it, you're down with genocide and whatever justifies it. Feel like just saying that would have been easier. 🤷♂️
I'm sure it emotionally feels better for you to pretend I am down with genocide than it is to actually confront and respond to anything I said.
Kind of seems like fox News level intellectual cowardice on your part though.
Your attempt to goad me into a conversation I've ALREADY WATCHED YOU HAVE is precisely the level of troll bullshit I expect from you right wing shit nuggets.
"OhhhHHhHHh I'm a centrist I don't trust either side (but I'm only going to attack one side and accuse one side of wrongdoing, except when I spend precisely 4 words out of 3,000 to say 'I don't trust IDF' to prove how centrist I am.)"
Every conservative accusation is a confession. Anyway, fuck you and everybody like you. Blocking you now because I don't owe troll "teehee you can't prove anything about me unless you have a signed confession in triplicate" faschies my time.
Lol I am not a conservative, but yes, block if you are unable to defend a position.