There are those within Israel who have warned and criticised about policy .
Right, but that still doesn't explain why you are qualifying everything. For you, it's like Palestinians bear no responsibility for what they inflict upon themselves.
They don't have to choose to do any jihad, but they do.
I pointed out that Israel helped to create Hamas not that it created the organisation. There is a difference.
Helped how? To what degree and for how long?
An interesting article in
The Conversation a few days after the atrocity of 7 October 2023:
Deprived of viable political alternatives, Gaza residents have increasingly looked to violence as their only salvation from an open air prison.
theconversation.com
The scale of Hamas’ attack on Israel on 7 and 8 October is unprecedented and the failure of the Israeli army and secret services, astonishing. Yet for observers such as former Israeli ambassador to France, Elie Barnavi, the events that have unfolded in the region over the past days were “surprising but predictable”.
On the ground, from which I have just returned, there is a clear sense of growing despair and latent violence among the Palestinian population. No one is talking about “peace” any more, but rather “the end of the occupation”, as young people evoke “resistance, by all means”.
This is the context in which Hamas carried out its attack. And the militant organisation used this despair to legitimise itself and win the support of a section of Palestinian public opinion.
So indulging the delusion that genocide is "resistance" excuses Palestinians for committing war crimes.
And Gaza wasn't occupied on 10/7.
Israel left in 2006. So by "occupation", they mean Israel
itself is occupied land. That's how they lie to themselves to justify all the atrocities and war crimes they commit.
Gaza, an open-air prison
In Gaza, where Hamas operates, 2.3 million Palestinians are crammed into 365 km2, making the Gaza Strip one of the world’s most densely populated territories. More than two thirds of the population live below the poverty line and, according to the Israeli NGO B’Tselem, the unemployment rate is 75% among people under 29.
Since 2007, this territory has also been subject to an Israeli blockade by sea, air and land, which almost entirely deprives it of contact with the outside world.
Gazans are regularly cut off from water and electricity, and depend mainly on international aid. Entry into and exit from Gaza depend on permits given by Israeli forces and are extremely rare, earning it the nickname of “open-air prison”.
So funny. What prison do you know of that allows the prisoners to have cars, concrete, steel, glass, electronics, perfume, communications, television stations, radio stations, internet access, sugar, fuel, rebar, construction equipment, pipes, free travel outside of Gaza (except to Israel, of course because of the terrorism), cafes, auto dealerships, mansions, freakin' ice cream shops?
Please, show me a prison that accommodates the prisoners. Go ahead. Just one.
Concerns were also being raised some time before that atrocity with comparisons being made between the West Bank and Nazi Germany:
Ex-IDF general likens military control of West Bank to Nazi Germany
That's a favorite tactic, to accuse Israel of being Nazis because you know that Nazis killed Jews so you try to invert that and exaggerate what is happening to Palestinians. The Jews killed by the Nazis were killed for simply existing. Palestinians die because they are used as human shields...which is a war crime.
it is a war crime to use human shields, and that is what Palestinians do every single day. They commit war crimes
every single day.
Is recruiting child soldiers "resistance"? Is using civilian infrastructure to launch attacks "resistance"? Is not wearing uniforms as an organized force "resistance"? Is using human shields "resistance"? No. Those are all
war crimes.
Nazis commit war crimes. That was Nuremberg. Nazis being held to account for their war crimes. So when are
you going to hold Palestinians accountable for theirs?
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