It's pretty disgusting how many people are minimizing murder, torture, rape, and kidnapping.

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72. You would have to ask the conflators what their motivation is.

Many times in my life (not speaking about DU and much of this happened in the US whilst I was attending uni there, although some of it happened in London and elsewhere as well, including here in Stockholm) I have run into people who try to deny that the West Bank settlements are illegal, that is was anti semitic to say they were illegal, and that basically 100% (or damn close) of any evil action in the greater Israel area was all done or caused by the Palestinians, that the Israelis did little to nothing wrong, and even if the Israelis did do something that many outsiders said was wrong, that they (the Israelis) had the right to do basically anything if they said it was self-defence and/or was in order to fulfil extreme interpretations of Zionist manifest destiny.

You will find that type of thought (and even more extreme manifestations of it) amongst many parts of the Netanyahu coalition in Israel and the overall Jewish diaspora, but it is not strictly limited to just the Likudniks and their allies.