The E wrote:No, fuck that. Israel is outright retaliating disproportionately against what is, for all intents and purposes, a goddamn prison riot!
For years, on this very forum, we had US gun nuts talk about how "the holocaust wouldn't have happened if the jews had been armed", and guess what chucklefucks: If they had been, the situation would have looked an awful fucking lot like Gaza does right now! Including people from all sides of the political spectrum suddenly finding out that yeah, what the germans are doing is very justified and surely the jews should show some good fucking will!
No, fuck
this.
It's funny that you bring up WWII, because 7/10 was a pogrom with the worst loss of Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust.
If Hamas is a prison gang, it's one which has been controlling the prison. For a decade and a half, we tried to avoid going into Gaza. We went so far as to try to buy off Hamas to keep things fairly quiet. And make no mistake, for all that Netanyahu is being exorciated now for "supporting" Hamas, the entire Western world supported that. I still remember the horror leftists expressed when Lieberman - who called for overthrowing the Hamas government - was appointed defense minister in 2017, thinking he would carry through.
In retrospect, we should have gone in back in 2007. Before Hamas had time to build up its weapons, fortify Gaza, dig its tunnels everywhere and develop its rockets so that now the entirety of Israel is in range. But we didn't. We were afraid of the casualties, both ours and the Palestinians. And now we have over 1200 dead and 240 hostages who no-one knows if they are even alive.
So once again,
fuck that. Hamas has proven that we can't live with it as Gaza's ruler. And despite all the fantasies I've seen over social media, there's no clean way to root them out.
but the aggressor in this conflict? It's not Hamas.
You know, I have a lot of respect for you. This is making me reconsider.