Israel-Gaza war

[Damocles]

Making this about religion and painting some false dichotomy between Judaism and Islam is not only intellectually dishonest, it's just plain wrong. Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived together in late Ottoman-era Palestine in relative peace.

What we're seeing now is the result of competing nationalisms coming to a head, underlined by disputes over land and property and competing promises made to different groups by colonial authorities. This isn't about "My god is better than your god," or, "Your people are swine and mine are some sort of heavenly demigods."

The posters here advocating for the wholesale deportation and/or slaughter of the Gazan Arabs ought to be ashamed of themselves. The same is true of those who deny the legitimacy of the state of Israel and also deny the brutality of the Holocaust.

Stop exploiting the suffering and pain of deprivation of millions to advance your disgusting fantasies of shooting up random Muslims with absolute impunity. Stop advocating for rocket attacks against schools and hospitals as a legitimate alternative to solving actual political issues.

Good grief.

[Damocles]

Ironic that those posters here who advocate for a “Final Solution” to the “Palestinian question” do so in the context of that particular state and society, and in that particular part of the world. Shameful!

[Damocles]

Well I hope, every single one of those Palestinians in that hypothetical scenario of yours resist till their dying breath being forced to leave their home to fulfill your deranged genocidal desires

“Wait, why do I hear Julia Boutros in the background?”

[Damocles]

Then there’s the people on Discord who say things like, “Israel should have a larger artillery park than both Koreas combined and have it trained on Gaza and the West Bank on quick-reaction alert 24/7, just in case…”

To be clear, they’re advocating Israel having enough artillery to completely level every building in Gaza and in the West Bank several times over. Oh, and Israel is not a party to various international conventions banning the use of biological or chemical weapons, has large stocks of napalm and other incendiary weapons, and refuses to ban either cluster munitions or land mines, so…

[Damocles]

I don’t see how this ends in anything other than a Sack of Carthage situation.