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In reply to the discussion: A friend accused me of being Anti-Semitic for my condemnation of Netanyahu and the rightwing parties in Israel [View all]Mossfern
(4,942 posts)70. Hamas is killing all those children
All they need or needed to do was to return the hostages and surrender.
They could have done that on October 8 2023. They know they can't win and you are complicit by
believing and repeating their propaganda - even when you have been shown that the death of innocents - women, children and the elderly are merely pawns (or 'martyrs') - Hell, they've openly declared that.
Yes Israel is being brutal, a brutality I do not support, but that doesn't excuse Hamas' disregard for Palestinians and
putting them in harms way.
Golda Meir was correct in her assessment:
When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.
― Golda Meir, A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography
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A friend accused me of being Anti-Semitic for my condemnation of Netanyahu and the rightwing parties in Israel [View all]
Chasstev365
Aug 2025
OP
and that is how it was created. A Jewish state and an Arab State. My question still remains, is Israel a
lostincalifornia
Aug 2025
#16
YOU need to learn some history. Israel WAS indeed created as a country in 1948. A Palestinian state was NEVER
hlthe2b
Aug 2025
#17
Excuse me. Where did I say a Palestinian state was created? I specifically said the partition was divided into
lostincalifornia
Aug 2025
#26
Do you know what Zionism is? Hint, it is NOT being against a two-state solution.
lostincalifornia
Aug 2025
#27
agreed -- saying that it is illegal to kill civilian children and bomb food lines does not make you anti-Semitic
JT45242
Aug 2025
#8
Every now and then, one needs to take inventory and re-count one's friends. Occasionally, one turns missing.
eppur_se_muova
Aug 2025
#14
Gee, where have I experienced that recently?... Just ask them how that is different from accusing an
hlthe2b
Aug 2025
#13
That's a tired insult they use since they have no substantive defense for the evil they promote
iemanja
Aug 2025
#18
Wrong - killing and injuring tens of thousands of kids is not defending yourself
womanofthehills
Aug 2025
#69
No you aren't, and why I am throughly disgusted with what seems to have become all to prevalent here, and I think it
lostincalifornia
Aug 2025
#55
The fact that she was Jewish has nothing to do with anything. What the fuck is this shit here.
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2025
#60
Netanyahu is a terrorist. He needs to be dealt with the way we used to deal with terrorists.
Initech
Aug 2025
#49
I'm sure that most people who care about Israel fear the rise of anti-semitism around the world...
AntiFascist
Aug 2025
#57