Posted on 11/02/2023 5:24:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The best way of understanding it is that Israelis are Jews and the ancient plague of anti-Semitism is again sweeping the globe.
There is something surreal, even sick about the current Gazan war.
Throughout European and American cities and campuses, tens of thousands of Middle East immigrants and students, and radical leftists chant nonstop “Free Palestinian from the River to the Sea.”
More recently, they are also yelling, “Israel, you can’t hide, we caught you in genocide.”
Consider the hypocrisy of that dual messaging.
Hamas and its supporters are openly and eagerly calling for the genocidal end of Israel by wiping it out from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Yet at the same time they also claim it is Israel that is committing genocide—the very current self-described agenda of Hamas and its expatriate community of devotees!
The war has become crazier still.
Hamas and its megaphones abroad also blast Israel daily for retaliating for the October butchery of some 1,300 Israeli infants, children, women, and the elderly.
They further demand Israel must be selective in its airborne targeting of the Hamas killers, who burrow beneath hospitals, mosques, and hospitals and use civilians as shields.
Hamas takes for granted that a supposedly heartless Israel nevertheless will be reluctant to strike the Hamas terrorists when and if they are surrounded by civilians.
Indeed, Gazans are put in more danger by Hamas than they would otherwise be by the Israel Defense Forces.
Yet the world accepts that Israel itself would never employ such a ruse of using civilians to shield its cities from indiscriminately fired Hamas missiles.
The world further knows that if Israel ever employed such a barbaric tactic, Israeli civilian shields would attract—not deter—Hamas rockets.
Hamas’s apologists insist that Israel warn in advance civilians to keep clear...
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Back in Gaza crowds reviled and tried to harm Israeli captives bound as hostages to trade for jailed terrorists in Israel.
In sum, the population that once elected Hamas into power, and cheered on its bloodletting—as long as there was yet no Israeli response—now claims to have no connection at all with Hamas. Yet the world assumes correctly that the people of Israel are inseparable from its military.
The surreal paradoxes of this war still do not end there.
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How can skin tone effect a person's ability to reason?
Your religious beliefs are yours and no one has any rational reason to argue with you about them {unless your religion tells you to kill me, and you believe and act on it}.
The entire 'hate the Jews' from the beginning is nothing more than petty jealousy that has grown into an industry.
The mooselimb arabs call the Jews "Killers of Christ". WTF?
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Why are they complaining, then?
Keep making them happy.
Don’t you know? Block is white. Boys are girls. Good is evil. I’m not committing genocide, you are, if only I say so.
“Black i white” i meant to say.
When a solution doesn’t solve a problem it’s not a solution .... which is why a political “solution” to a religious conflict is not a solution at all.
Hamas’s apologists insist that Israel warn in advance civilians to keep clear.
They did only a fool didn’t see it coming.
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