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seems like the 'safe' public opinion is 'we stand behind israel' and the left opinion is palestinian support

i don't live there i don't have any particular interest or fascination with the region i don't understand any of this pls don't yell at me

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

US and UK politicians have large Israel supporting populations (whether Christian evangelists, hard right nationalists ("i-rony") or just old fashioned Zionist Jews) so they have to kiss the ring and support Israel.

Germany has a forever guilt for the Holocaust so they support Israel.

India is run by Hindu nationalists who have a psychopathic hatred of Muslims so they also support Israel.

Anyone else who has any decency or inner feeling of justice will support Palestinians for being subject to decades of occupation and apartheid and know that it's utterly hypocritical to support Ukraine for resisting Russian aggression while condemning Palestinians for doing the same.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anyone who has any decency or feeling of inner justice will support innocent civilians regardless of their country of origin, and will condemn terrorist acts and war crimes regardless of who commited them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

funny how they suddenly care about them while Palestinian civilians have brutally mistreated for decades.

this is like the teacher freaking out when the bullied kid finally fights back

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

True, but what often goes unreported is the massive scale at which Israel is killing Palestinians.

Check out this link for example: https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/16516/israeli-palestinian-casualties-by-in-gaza-and-the-west-bank/

Israel kills and injures roughly 20 Palestinians for each Israeli killed/injured by Palestine.

The current era of the conflict started in 2006, when the Hamas during a ceasefire stepped down from the government in favour of a less radical government to lead to a peace process. But then Israel bombed a residential building (they say by accident), killing 24 civilians including children and injuring many more.

That's when the Hamas took back the power and restarted their attacks on Israel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No argument there.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Anyone else who has any decency or inner feeling of justice will support Palestinians for being subject to decades of occupation and apartheid and know that it’s utterly hypocritical to support Ukraine for resisting Russian aggression while condemning Palestinians for doing the same.

This would sound a lot better if Hamas was not targeting civilians, which is not at all what the Ukrainian military is doing. Comparing these two is an insult to Ukraine.