I’m not trying to justify anything - nowhere have I stated that any action that IDF soldiers or Hamas fighters have taken are justifiable. It’s an extremely messy, complex and convoluted set of circumstances and it does no one any service to attempt to simplify and boil down what has happened and what is happening to simple, binary soundbites.
I’m just trying to inject some empathy into this discussion. I understand that not everyone has a great capacity for empathy - particularly towards those who appear to have no empathy themselves - but to allow those who we oppose to turn us into death-hungry monsters is allowing them to harm us. I won’t allow the atrocities and war crimes to turn me into someone who cheers for death.
You only hear that bullshit when talking about the oppresors of palestinians. I never heard that excuse about russian soldiers. I never saw anybody critising rhe celebration of the death of war criminals like Dick Cheney
What you hear; what I hear; what others hear is entirely dependent upon what we subscribe to and what services we use to access information. We no longer live in a world where there are three newspapers everyone gets their information from. If you didn’t hear that then that’s likely due to the bubble you’re in. What I’ve heard is due to the bubble I’m in. We all get fed content that espouses views we already hold.
You can justify hamas was crimes will the same bullshit.
Self preservation would have been to refuse to serve to choose jail over killing babies and risking your own life
I’m not trying to justify anything - nowhere have I stated that any action that IDF soldiers or Hamas fighters have taken are justifiable. It’s an extremely messy, complex and convoluted set of circumstances and it does no one any service to attempt to simplify and boil down what has happened and what is happening to simple, binary soundbites.
I’m just trying to inject some empathy into this discussion. I understand that not everyone has a great capacity for empathy - particularly towards those who appear to have no empathy themselves - but to allow those who we oppose to turn us into death-hungry monsters is allowing them to harm us. I won’t allow the atrocities and war crimes to turn me into someone who cheers for death.
You only hear that bullshit when talking about the oppresors of palestinians. I never heard that excuse about russian soldiers. I never saw anybody critising rhe celebration of the death of war criminals like Dick Cheney
What you hear; what I hear; what others hear is entirely dependent upon what we subscribe to and what services we use to access information. We no longer live in a world where there are three newspapers everyone gets their information from. If you didn’t hear that then that’s likely due to the bubble you’re in. What I’ve heard is due to the bubble I’m in. We all get fed content that espouses views we already hold.