Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: I don't understand why people are just blind to Israeli terrorism and instead focus on just Muslim terrorism. [View all]AloeVera
(4,398 posts)You must condemn. At the very least.
You seem to see but you don't "see".
..current Israeli government's approach, which appears to be to eradicate everybody currently living in the Gaza Strip and West Bank and replace them with Jewish settlers."
That IS GENOCIDE.
But you then backtrack and call into question what your own words have just described.
Israel does not have a constitution. Respected Holocaust historian and genocide scholar Omer Bartov sees that as the problem. A constitution may have allowed Israel to become a "normal state" that provides equality to all its citizens, define its borders and acknowledge and redress the Nakba. But instead of remedying its foundational violence, modern Israel has become increasingly militaristic, expansionist, racist, and now genocidal. Gideon Levy, a thorn in the side of Netanyahu, goes even further.
You have seen this but others may find it enlightening.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/15/omer_bartov_gideon_levy_israel_zionism
We could argue all day about whether Hamas is genocidal or not, it's purely theoretical (and flimsily based on one quote from the Koran, which was omitted in its revised charter as you know), unlike the real-life genocide. I find it very odd that the latter can be met with indifference while the former is brandished as some sort of justification for it.
Your last paragraph is especially heartbreaking. Such is the power of sustained, relentless propaganda on behalf of Israel, that the existence of the propaganda itself is denied.
It makes me want to cry. I truly feel a deep sadness. We are allies in everything else, and yet even now, with all the evidence before your eyes, you will not "see".