• filister@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You are so wrong, I know Israelis, I worked with them and I have zero problem with them, I even have friends who are Israeli. I also have Arab friends.

    What happened on the 7th of October is wrong, and was horrible, but what Israel did after that is even worse in my eyes. I don’t support Hamas and would be more than happy if they don’t exist somehow. But you also can’t excuse the immense suffering of Palestinians with what happened on the 7th. One wrong doesn’t justify another wrong and violence is never the answer. I am against killing of any civilians and children, no matter their religion, skin colour, country of origin. I do care about human lives equally.

    I am also very carefully selecting media sources I read and stick mostly with Reuters and BBC, but occasionally I read some news from Israelian media too, who are obviously biased in this conflict. Sometimes I also read the guardian who seems to be leaning a bit on the left, to balance things. I am trying to understand all points of views in this conflict, I read Wikipedia pages about the history of the conflict. And I still can’t justify the mass punishment inflicted on regular Palestinians with what happened on the 7th. The fact that Israel blocked all food, water, electricity and fuel shipments, blocked their telecommunication network are absolutely inexcusable. I know people tend to generalise people but this is the worst way to dehumanize them. Both Israeli and Palestinians. And I do make a difference between Israeli and their government, and as stated before I don’t have problems with Israeli citizens, to some extent I understand them, but I think humanity should always prevail.

    On the other hand I have never read anything even remotely critical to how Israel is handling the war from your account. So who’s the propaganda now?