Oh, give it a frigging rest, Monty.
1. there is no 'murder' on the part of the IDF, in connection with this new Gaza War
2. Hamas is to blame for embedding war-assets amongst it civilian population
3. nobody in America has been brainwashed in connection with Israel and Palestine
4. it is not racist to seek the extermination of a terrorist organization nor its members
5. Americans with common sense can see right through your propaganda efforts
1. Of course it's murder. ...
Incorrect.
If Hamas moved its war-assets away from heavily populated civilian residential areas, and if Hamas would stop using schools and mosques and hospitals and civilian bomb shelters, as storage caches for weapons and munitions, and as command posts and firing-points and gun and launcher emplacements and troop shelters, then there would be far fewer Gazan civilian casualties. Hamas is infamous around the world for their widespread use of their own women and children as human shields, and there is enough documentation on this subject to choke a horse.
Again, incorrect. And repeating it over and over does not render it thus.
If you have substantive evidence of large-scale intentional targeting of civilians, from credible and objective neutral sources, then, by all means, present it here, for the edification of the entire audience.
If not, then, your claim of murder must be set aside with prejudice; to be revisited only at such time as you manage to satisfy preliminary evidence requirements along those lines.
There isn't an ounce of Orwellian double-talk in either this particular refutation nor my post immediately preceding this one, in this sequence. You are welcome to serve-up any such text along with your rationale for labeling it thus, but, until then...
Who is doing this brainwashing, pray tell?
We can safely write-off that portion of the world within the domain of Islam as possessing an embedded and permanent hatred for the Jews and Israel.
Europe is a mixed bag... with Germany and France containing the highest percentages of anti-Muslim / pro-Israeli citizens... and with the UK oscillating between the two at the popular level and towards Israel on the official level.
That accounts for the lion's share of European countries worth considering in this context.
The pragmatic Russians and Chinese blow hot and cold depending upon the day and what side of the bed they got up on that morning.
Most of the rest of the world doesn't much care on either an official nor popular level, to any extent sufficient to be taken into account in this context.
And, push comes to shove, beyond the realm of Islam, in any Final Showdown between Israel and the Palestinians (especially Hamas), under circumstances where it cannot be stopped and one must choose sides, most will choose Israel in a heartbeat.
I do not share your perspective on world opinion directed at Israel, not its impact nor prospects.
If it looks like a duck and smells like a duck and waddles like a duck and shits like a duck and quacks like a duck, there's a decent chance that it's a duck.
If it looks like a terrorist and smells like a terrorist...
Or so says the US Department of State, the EU, et al . I'll keep my own counsel, and side with them, in the matter of whom should and should not be labeled as 'terrorists'.
...Like the Muhajedin in Afghanistan who were freedom fighters when fighting the Russians and became terrorists when fighting NATO...
When guerrilla warfare or asymmetric warfare organizations cease their guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare operations and switch to generalized terror operations, they cease being freedom (or any other kind of) fighters, and become terrorists.
This idea of change of status or modus operandi and revisions to labeling is not a difficult one to grasp.
...5. I have seen through the propaganda, it is and your type that have bought the propaganda.
How nice for you.
Feel free to continue believing that your distrust of government labeling of terrorists is operative in any real sense, and that everyone who opposes your viewpoint on such labeling must be enthralled by those same polities and their brainwashing.
It's a gross inaccuracy, bordering on the delusional, but if that's what gets you through the day, in this context, then who am I to burst your bubble and bring you back to Reality in such matters? Enjoy the vision.
