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angrychair

(11,778 posts)
21. Ok, we are just going to have to disagree
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 05:09 PM
Jun 2025

And thats ok. Neither of us were there and I don't 100% believe either account of the incident, much less how it's portrayed in the press.

With respect to the Gaza issue, t the end of the day, I find any justification for bombing innocent people, especially women and children, abhorrent.
The refugees in Gaza did not choose their government. Few living in Gaza today were old enough to vote for Hamas 18 years ago.
You don't counter terrorism with terrorism of your own. The people of Gaza have been held in an open air prison, some for their whole lives, by someone that can cut off water or electricity or food at will and have done so in the past.
Not to mention how Palestinians are treated in the West Bank.

I just find it disturbing that a group of people that were forced into ghettos and then harassed and attacked and treated so horribly and then systemically murdered, would be so comfortable treating people like they have treated the innocent people in Gaza (not all people in Gaza are innocent but the majority are). These are women and children, desperately poor people, trapped in a fight not of their own making being made to suffer out of misplaced sense of revenge.
What Hamas did was evil. What the innocent people of Gaza and the West Bank are enduring is no better.
That's all I have to say.

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She's lucky claudette Jun 2025 #1
The word performative comes to mind. NoRethugFriends Jun 2025 #2
Does it? Orrex Jun 2025 #3
When angrychair Jun 2025 #10
Oh Please. Hieronymus Phact Jun 2025 #4
Oh yes, those savage Palestinians might have had her for lunch. AloeVera Jun 2025 #5
your presumptions say tell us everything about you Hieronymus Phact Jun 2025 #6
Your response to the other poster told me everything I needed to know. AloeVera Jun 2025 #7
Post removed Post removed Jun 2025 #11
LOL claudette Jun 2025 #8
What are you talking about? angrychair Jun 2025 #9
Maybe they wanted to avoid another fiasco? Hieronymus Phact Jun 2025 #12
"They murdered the crew of the last ship that tried to get aid to Gaza." Not quite how that went down EX500rider Jun 2025 #16
In my OP angrychair Jun 2025 #17
Hardly "heavily armed" for Spec Ops EX500rider Jun 2025 #18
Oh, ok angrychair Jun 2025 #19
Actually they tried to board by boat first EX500rider Jun 2025 #20
Ok, we are just going to have to disagree angrychair Jun 2025 #21
Since she's 22 years old, the IDF probably finds her not young enough to kill nt Rob H. Jun 2025 #14
👍 claudette Jun 2025 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author BannonsLiver Jun 2025 #13
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