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In reply to the discussion: No, pro Palestinian leftists, Israel is not committing genocide [View all]elias7
(4,210 posts)The lengths the IDF has gone to avoid civilian casualties is lauded in military circles as unprecedented in urban warfare. They have become so targeted that only 10,000 deaths (which does not distinguish between Hamas combatants and civilians - probably because you cant tell the difference) in the past 6 months. The problem is that anti-Israelis dont acknowledge:
1- Israel has a right to exist and defend herself
2- Israel is at war with an enemy that doesnt acknowledge her right to exist
Just look at the pager incident with Hezbollah. Can you get more targeted than that? Yet most anti-Israelis condemn that act. Do they appreciate that they have acted with utter restraint while Hezbollah has been bombing Israel daily for almost a year, since 10/8, weeks before Israel started bombing in Gaza (Israel waited weeks to allow innocents to move out of announced target areas). But when Israel finally attacks Hezbollah targets, including one of their billionaire leaders, news outlets neglect to report WHY Israel attacked. Hezbollah is a terrorist nation within the nation of Lebanon, funded by Iran, and dedicated to the destruction of the Jews (its in their charter).
In the end, Israel doesnt care what the anti-Israelis think. She is surrounded by a mass of Arab countries who have never accepted the international decision (first, the League of Nations, then the UN) to grant the Jews - refugees from 60 countries around the world and welcome nowhere right to a sovereign state in their ancient homeland. Jews who have always been willing to share the space peacefully, despite what TikTok says, but willing and able to defend herself to attacks for the past 75 years, because she has no choice, nowhere else to go. And contrary to the broken records we hear from anti-Israelis, the skillful ubiquitous disinformation spread by the Islamist machine (theyre even getting college kids to question 9/11) does not change the fact that Israel is fundamentally moral in her choices and actions and has chosen to mostly ignore social media.