Israel's actions have never been genocidal. I'm glad that you now recognize that Hamas' actions have been. Accusing Israel of genocide has always been a baseless slur intended to obscure the Arab agenda of wiping out Israel.
Wrong. With Israel now teaming up with Trump to wipe out or expatriate the entire Palestinian population of Gaza, Israel has now demonstrated the intent aspect of genocide. Hamas is also intent on genocide-- they just don't have the military power to pull it off.
Israel has long had the capability to commit genocide in Gaza. Instead of doing so, they supplied the Gazans with food, water and power. They continued to do so even after the Gazans murdered innocent Israelis and took them hostage. The Gazans could end this war tomorrow by releasing the rest of the living hostages and returning the bodies of the murder victims.
Why are the moslems so keen on Jerusalem and the area around there? Mecca, Medina, Qom etc etc etc are all much more important to Islam than Jerusalem, that wasn't even conquered by moslem armies until after Mohammad's death! Sure, they built a big mosque there, desecrating the jewish holy place they built it on top of (as moslems have done in many other places, such as the Great Omari Mosque built over a Byzantine christian church or the Babri Mosque built by the Mughal overlords of India), but really, for the moslems to demand Jerusalem when it's so unimportant to their faith and so important to others' faiths?The Arabs / “moslems” knew what they were / know what they are financing when they fund Hamas, etc:
The deadly gambit of funding terrorism by the Arab / Muslim states / nationals was / is to expel any and all non-Arabs / Muslims (or influence) from the region for two reasons / purposes:
1: Establishing an ideologically homogenous region in the heart of the Middle East for security & stability. (That hasn’t worked out too well so far - and evangelical "Christians" have a similar agenda involving America that is destined to fail as well.)
2: Control of “The Holy Land” (Israel / Jerusalem, etc) due to its value as a religious tourism destination . (A second Mecca is the dream of the Arabs / Muslims in the region - and I also have zero doubts that SOME Israelis would love to monopolize ALL of “The Holy Land” for “reason / purpose #2.)
It is what it is.
I understand it, but I don’t have to like it - and I certainly will NOT help facilitate it.
Can't you read? Here, I'll repeat what I wrote earlier:If you pat yourself any harder on the back, I'm certain you'll strain something. Speaking of 'straining', your initial response strained credibility, and claiming your 'made your position clear' is obfuscation at best. I asked you if you personally felt that protesting against the Israeli 'kill them all!' campaign in Gaza should be considered 'criminal' anti-Semitism.
Ah yes, "tricksy tricksy two-faced moslems (sic), the root cause of all problems...
Ah the old "outside influencer" trope. I noticed you conveniently left out the fact that the Israeli navy has blockaded virtually all imports (food, medicine, construction supplies) to the Gazan people for over 15 years now. Israel has a chokehold around the neck of the people of Gaza, content to slowly but surely strangle them. And yet they are shocked....shocked I tell you!....when the 'prisoners' revolt. (Spare us the rote 'but but they voted for Hamas in 2007!' reply...that dog don't hunt).
And your crass appeal to emotion about the 'bodies of dead Jewish toddlers' smacks of press releases from the Israeli propaganda ministry. (I'm reminded of the breathless Iraq-stealing-incubators-from-Kuwait-leaving-dead-babies stories from 1990, i.e. complete works of fiction).
In any event, the 10:1 casualty ratio of Gazan women and children to Israeli women and children stands on its own against your pearl-clutching about 'dead Jewish toddlers' who may or may not have ever even existed.
In any event, I'll give you one final opportunity to go on record with your opinion as to whether or not peaceful protests against Israel violence (let's assume that the nominal violence at some portion of the Columbia protest was 'wrong') rise to the level of "criminalized free speech and anti-Semitism".
see post #184
Addressing your deflection by repeating your deflection? How unserious.
Equating the Israel invasion terrorists as akin to the British Royal Navy and the Gazans as akin to the Nazis is blood libel. Shame.
Highly doubtful. 'murdered Jewish toddlers' reeks of AIPAC propaganda.
The freed hostages have described being held in private homes. It's impossible to distinguish Hamas from the civilian Gazans who are allied with them.
Kfir Bibas was kidnapped on October 7th. His body was recently returned as part of ceasefire deal. All of Israel had been praying that he and his brother Ariel would be returned alive, but a forensic examination revealed that they had both been strangled to death in November 2023.
Do you seriously believe the murders of Ariel and Kfir Bibas were faked?
That does not justify killing civilians who have no control over those holding the hostages. Bombing the shit out of hundreds of civilians is not an acceptable action under international law.
Israel has not "bombed the shit out of hundreds of civilians". Hamas operates out of civilian buildings and inflates its casualty numbers.
You can believe whatever narrative you want from the relative comfort of middle class USA.
I wish I didn't have to worry about antisemitism in the United States. But seeing what people have done and said here since October 7th, I don't feel safe anymore. I've seen swastika graffiti in my own neighborhood and protesters harassing Jewish students at UCLA. Particularly disappointing has been witnessing antisemitism coming from people on the left who are willing to fight for other civil rights causes. Their commitment to justice doesn't extend to the Jews.
Acts of antisemitism are not the appropriate response to Netanyahu's crimes against humanity. Netanyahu is a political leader who has gone overboard, not a religious leader of all Jews.
You do not know better than the International Criminal Court.
