You mean, other than every time we bring up Israel doing war crimes you said we should blame Hamas and the one time you very explicitly stated that Israel bombing civilians is justified?
See? You can't do it. On the one hand you say it'l may not be justified, then you turn around and say that...
Boom! That's all you need to acknowledge. You don't need to side with Hamas. You just need to acknowledge the simple idea that just because Hamas did something bad doesn't necessarily justify the response that followed. Now that you have acknowledged that it MAY NOT BE JUSTIFIED regardless of...
You asked "who attacked the Gaza strip on October 7th", not "Israel/the Gaza strip" by "late 2023".
On October 7th, Hamas attacked Israel.
By the end of 2023, Israel had attacked the Gaza strip.
Shows what you know.
I know. What a silly and absurd position.
Nope. Not something either me or Rev have implied or said.
Why do you feel the need to make stuff up if your position is so sound?
Much better to believe collective punishment is fine and developed states have no responsibility...
Then I want you to say it. "Just because Hamas are evil/genocidal/whatever, it doesn't justify Israel committing war crimes".
You've repeatedly said it's justified to bomb civilians and refuse to acknowledge Israel's blame for war crimes.
And in what way does committing war crimes on civilians...
Firstly, they're already in control of the Gaza strip.
Secondly, since the Gaza strip is effectively controlled by Israel, this means basically nothing.
Thirdly, the Gaza strip right now is basically just a massive grave. Not a great strategic resource.
Oh yeah, absolutely. That's why...
You realize you're describing Israel there too, right? Israel also don't seem to care if there are innocent people in the way of their bombs. In fact, they don't even seem to care if they ONLY kill civilians.
Tell Israel to stop bombing civilians.
Eh, some bad optics. But some obvious exaggerations in there. It gives a couple of examples of isolated incidents, then suddenly and rapidly descends into individual students, individual accounts, and things that were just "stated" at the protest that have no reasonable human would assume were...
I'm not. I make no excuses for anti-Semitism. But I also need a lot more to dismiss thousands of students than a few scant reports of very little veracity and some clearly very bad faith interpreting of them. Again, a lot of the protesters are Jewish, and the majority of reports of violence at...
It's like that famous quote.
"If you want peace, you must prepare for war. And then, like, start wars by recklessly invading your neighbours all the time and do war crimes and stuff too, I guess."
Israel are the ones currently dropping bombs on them. You're arguing that's justified.
And by Israel dropping bombs on them.
Neither does Israel, apparently.
Depends. If you're taking about pure rhetoric, you're right. But if you want to talk about actual harm being done, Israel are doing...
I have repeatedly asked how it is justified to drop bombs on civilians. Earlier I asked:
Post 544:
"The question is: how does that (i.e: Hamas using human shields) justify dropping bombs on those citizens?"
And you answered:
Post 548:
"No what justifies it is Israel has a right to defend...
Such as?
I acknowledged that earlier, and said there was very little evidence of it.
Could you provide links to reports or recordings of these chants?
More to the point, can you provide any examples of worse things that just chants? It's one thing to say "Hey, protesters, maybe choose your...
I think this letter comes off as kind of as kind of holier than thou, and some of the rhetoric she uses is obviously very deliberately manipulative. For example:
"Make no mistake; I have no problem with the keffiyehs you wear or the Palestinian flags you wave. But why is nationalist...