Israel Broadens Bombing in Gaza to Civilian Sites

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51. Then at least we have some common ground.

"Israel's not perfect, there are things I would like to see changed and maybe if there were peace in the region, things would change, but it's kind of hard to achieve peace when you have terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah whose stated mission is the destruction of Israel."

I agree with most of what you said except for the bold part, but it is a key difference. Israel can still pass laws right now. It's wrong to hold up the violent actions of a minority as an excuse to delay progress on human rights. In fact, in right wing circles, it is nothing more than a disengenious excuse. They don't want civil rights reform, regardless of violence. It's been done to death by the right wing in history. Notably Black on White violence during the civil rights movement of the United States but(more analogously) also during SA's Apartheid reform with Black rebel violence on White South Africans.