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

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107. The exact opposite is true.

Throughout this ordeal, your side has always presented Israel's actions in Gaza as understandable and justifiable. Every illegal or cruel act, war crime and atrocity was defended as being perfectly reasonable and understandable. Because Hamas blah blah. Everything was justified.

Whereas if anyone ever DARED to mention what happened prior to October 7th, we were shot down in flames as Hamas-lovers, Islamists, Jew-haters, terrorist supporters. We were required to condemn Hamas - but it wasn't just Hamas, really, the conflation with Palestinians was just under the surface though it bubbled over sometimes - "regardless of any preceding event" like a 58-year brutal occupation, the theft of Palestinian lands and the ethnic cleansing of a million people, the denial of self-determination, the daily killings of Palestinians...

You can't deny all of that is true.

And, btw, the real uncomfortable truth about the Arab nations attacking in 1948 is what happened starting in 1947 - many months before the Arab armies showed up and a reason for why they showed up. And why do you think they wanted to eliminate Israel from the Middle Eastern lands they'd considered Muslim holy land for centuries and which they never agreed to relinquish to European immigrants and refugees of a different faith? What's missing from your statement - a very popular talking point I've noticed - is any recognition or awareness of the Arab/Muslim POV and that they had a legitimate grievance - from their perspective. Just as Palestinians had legitimate grievances before October 7th and they were ignored too.

It seems only Israel can have prior grievances and "preceding events" and Palestinians are just to be condemned as if they were born terrorists and no "preceding event" ever happened to them.