Maybe not here, but when I was trying to find video elsewhere from normal Palestinians and/or Israelis all I could find was people gleefully mocking pictures of clearly traumatized civilians, of people framing the video of terrified people videoing armed men on the streets as "resistance fighters liberating Sderot"
I think a lot of people, like myself, think it's more productive to come here and talk about it than to involve ourselves on those posts on other websites.
Why does that mean I should view video of random civilians being held at gunpoint and loaded onto a truck as a good thing?
It doesn't end conflicts. All it does it forment it another generation. The 12 year old who's never lived outside of Israel in their entire life doesn't deserve "whatever they get".
This is something that's lost on people. When Israel strikes Gaza, they do so knowing it's one of the densest places on Earth and it'll be be nigh-impossible to avoid hitting civilians.
That said, putting aside the conflict up to this point, while a gazan rocket is less precise than Israeli missiles, you don't accidentally take Israeli civilians hostage in their own homes outside of Gaza.
Regardless of your opinion of Israel, I don't think it's right to say literal children aren't people. You can oppose Israeli apartheid without dehumanizing people.
I wish i had saved that graph going around right now that shows how uneven it always is. Gaza strikes a few buildings, knocks out a few windows and injures 6 Israelis and kills 1? Israeli takes out an apartment block in retaliation.
This only scales so I can only imagine the sort of genocide that might be about to happen if Israel goes ahead launches a land operation into Gaza
An Israeli invasion and occupation of Gaza would be a disaster
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
Uprising? I'm sorry, but the civilians in Gaza aren't doing any glorious uprising they're hiding from the barrage of Israeli rockets being launched that are leveling their city.
An uprising is not a coordinated military effort, and while I am on the side of the oppressed, i am not going to use a bunch of justifications to dismiss the trauma being inflicted on civilians because they had the gall to be born to parents who decided to move to occupied Palestine.
Sometimes I really wonder how many of you actually care about human life and how many of you care about evening the score.
I think it's a political calculation in preparation for an election but it's still historically not what the Oval Office has done during active pickets from major unions, including his own, which does bode well for the striking workers and their chances of successful bargaining at the table.
I think Netanyahu has already said they will need to "cleanse" Gaza ๐ณ