Nation that always cries it is a victim. Readies its army to expand mission creep.

[EdmondDantes_]

105. You completely missed the point of my response in the context of this thread

The OP and a number of agreeing posts are using antisemitic connotations in saying that Israel and the larger Jewish population going back to well before the creation of Israel have never been the victim of violence. That's just an utterly historically illiterate perspective.

Yes the situation was and is more complicated than that, but even your own post leaves out that much of what you said about leaders not making good on their promises, applies just as much to Palestinian leaders and leaders of other middle eastern countries in their dealings with Israel as the other way around. If you're going to suggest that people shouldn't expect nobody to respond to Israel with hatred for reasons of the US and Britain making promises, well that's not blaming the root cause appropriately and kind of serves to underscore my point that in fact Israel gets blamed for things that aren't their fault (in addition to things that they are blamed for that are their fault). And given that Hamas keeps making promises and cease fires and then attacks, should Israelis believe them this time? Likewise, should Palestinians believe Israel won't keep expanding settlements this time because they keep expanding settlements.

But none of that justifies the genocide Israel is committing and it didn't justify the horrific attacks Hamas has committed. The violence started long before the Britain or the U.S. came into the picture and will continue as long as all sides are led by leaders too stubborn to work for peace because their political power benefits from generating hatred. To me it doesn't matter who started it because it's irrelevant at this point. It started centuries before I was born.

I agree with you that the situation is vastly more complicated than my previous post laid out, but strangely you directed the reply to me instead of the far more simplistic notion that Israel is whiny from the OP.