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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
If you must cut and paste propaganda do try and post a linked source
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Human rights violations aren't propaganda just because they unsettle your own interior narrative.
Step away from the torture porn reporting and the sad truth is this is completely cyclic in nature. Hamas buff their control with Palestinians by showing strength against Israel, and Netanyahu strengthens his control over Israel by looking strong against the Palestinians.
Both parties benefit from these periodic escalations in their own way, and so neither really do anything to try and defuse the situation. And so as with the worst of conflicts, innocent Israelis and Palestinians on both sides of the border will pay the price, but
neither political elite care about them which is why I am not going to cheerlead one over the other just because of identity politics or alignment with Western values. Israel's apartheid state has unlawfully evicted families purely on ethnic and religious grounds. They've separated families. They've systemically eroded these people's rights. They've tortured them. A lot. For a long time. It just hasn't made your front pages.
With Hamas and the apartheid state, there's only bad guys in this now. And it's true that it'll probably only end once Hamas are completely wiped out. Which could be this time. They have no chance against the IDF and less chance of getting their own land under international law back.