Israel-Palestine Conflict Debate
The cluster revolves around criticisms of Israel's military actions in Gaza and occupied territories, including accusations of genocide, war crimes, apartheid, and terrorism, alongside defenses citing bias, whataboutism, and context from other conflicts.
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Whether or not Israel's actions need excused ("exempt") is a matter of opinion. And an unbiased opinion can't be developed when we're only willing to criticize, or even look at, one facet of the issue.Or to put it another way, similar and "worse" things are happening elsewhere, but it's not PC to bring them up.
Israel is the opposite of isolated surely? It gets to enact mass killing and have other governments say that it should do it.
I suspect you assume this somehow justifies the atrocities committed by IsraelNo, and don't write things like this here.
"I don't think that everything the state of Israel is doing is 100% above reproach"there, that should get rid of this thread in a hurry
There is a strong but not unanimous consensus that Israel is committing war-crimes and enforcing an apartheid state in the territories it occupies. There is consternation over whether Israel's actions constitute genocide.That said, I think it's fair to assume that people from the US and other Israel-allied nations are disproportionately represented on Hacker News. So, we should not expect the global consensus to be reflected here.But I think think this topic both (1) is on topic
This is terrorism. Israel is not an island defending from terrorist, they are the ones spreading terror. What they did to their neighbouring countries could be happen to others. Can we stop praising this as clever and impressive attack and start holding Israel accountable!?
This is pure evil. If you do evil stuff, you invite evil stuff to be done to you. Israel has not grounds to complain here.
Bold post, considering israel is commiting another right now.
At least you're not blaming us here in Israel!
Yeah, that's just whataboutism.Edit: To elaborate, because there was another comment comparing this to Assad in Syria:I think the difference is that Assad already belonged to the "enemy" is of the West (rightly so) and was immediately hit with sanctions.What is special about Israel is that the government and, as it seems, large parts of the population, are displaying the same mentality - but unlike with Assad, no one is putting on the brakes here or threatening sanctions.