Hey man, I’ll say there are whatever number of lights you want me to say if you give me another one of those tasty eggs.

Your shoes are like the top one only because you have small feet.

Wouldn’t surprise me. Though at the moment I’m a little more concerned about the antisemitism in my own country.

It seems that the “it’s ok to criticize Israel” doctrine just handed out free dog whistles to anti-semites. They just did a find and replace on their conspiracy theories to sub out “the Jews” for “Israel” and apparently a lot of people think it’s “ok” now. While not all criticism of Israel is anti-semitism, some of it is.

Obama is correct. People need to take a little time to stop and think. It’s not a bad thing to think before pushing insane narratives on the internet.

Terrorists consider civilian casualties to be a scorecard. Hamas benefits when there’s Israeli civilian casualties. Hamas also benefits when there’s Palestinian civilian casualties.

That’s the whole point of taking hostages isn’t it? To force Israel into a ground campaign which will cause Palestinian civilian casualties.

The military forces of civilized nations don’t consider civilian casualties to be a victory no matter which side it’s on. They have an objective and need to achieve that objective while minimizing civilian casualties. The objective of the IDF is to free the hostages. They will make an effort to minimize civilian casualties. But they must achieve that objective even while know civilian causalities are a certainty even when they make an to keep those casualties to a minimum.

This is the nature of war. And this is a war Hamas started. And remember there could be significantly fewer casualties (and a humanitarian ceasefire) if Hamas released the hostages.

But they won’t do that because their objective is to maximize the number of Palestinian casualties because many people look at those casualties and become angry and want to support them.

Netanyahu will lose power because of 1400 Israeli deaths. Both Israeli and Palestinian civilian casualties are considered to be a failure by Israelis.

Both Israeli and Palestinian civilian casualties are considered a success by Hamas. They are psychopaths that know how people react to these numbers.

To be able to indoctrinate a thousand people into being capable of the atrocities committed on October 7, you have to teach people from a very young age that the enemy is not human, but demons and that no form a violence is unacceptable to use against them. Hamas has been the government of Gaza (and therefore in control of the schools) for enough time to indoctrinate children from a very young age all the way up to adulthood.

If you’re looking for comparisons to Nazis, maybe consider applying some of those comparisons to the group whose goal is to kill Jews. Internet contrarianism is fun and all, but this has gotten out of hand.

Well there are 240 hostages that are held captive in an underground lair by some psychopaths. The PM of Israel may not want to keep those people there any longer than necessary.

Perhaps Hamas should release the hostages so there’s no longer a reason for Israel to deny calls for a ceasefire?

Odd that no one is calling on Hamas to do this, isn’t it? It’s almost like everyone knows Hamas is evil and will continue to keep those people imprisoned. But if we’re demanding Israel to do things we know they won’t do, why not also demand Hamas to do things we know they won’t do?

Hamas is all about blood and soil and killing Jews. You may want to continue pretending they’re a scrappy band of freedom fighters but that’s only because you’re stuck in an information silo. At this point people that support Hamas are anti-semitic, there’s no way to rationalize out support for an organization that purposefully murders Jewish children. It’s just pure anti-semitism, the mask is gone now.

UN Secretary General fails at basic diplomacy. His one job.

Guterres remaining as Sec Gen hurts the UN’s ability to conduct diplomacy during a serious conflict. The tankies might like what he said but the UN’s ability to do it’s job should take precedence. If the dude cares about the UN he should resign so someone more interested in serious diplomacy rather than scoring internet points can take the job he’s failed at.

Yeah this meme doesn’t work for Hamas… the person being shot isn’t a child.

This type of violence does not need to celebrated. It should be mourned as tragic. Its perpetrators condemned.

So… then how about you simply condemn the perpetrators instead of making excuses for them and blaming the victims.

People that have been conditioned to hate Israel really can’t help themselves can they? You must know how terrible it looks that you’re trying to hamasplain this shit, but you literally can’t stop yourself from doing it can you?

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Yeah it would help the image of Palestinians have they could take a pause from hating Israel and condemn Hamas for these acts. But unfortunately I don’t see that happening. I just see people attempting to justify the actions of Hamas by mindlessly saying “Israel Bad” over and over again.

I get that y’all are conditioned to say “Israel bad” anytime it’s mentioned (and sometimes when it isn’t). But you’re not exactly helping your cause by doing this immediately after terrorists commit horrific acts against Israelis. Kind makes you seem sympathetic to the terrorists.

What I’d like to see is Palestinians condemning Hamas and distancing themselves from the group. Just doesn’t seem to be happening though. What conclusion do you think people are going to draw from the fact this doesn’t seem to be happening? I’m seeing people so blinded by their hatred of Israel that they’re incapable of any kind of empathy for the victims of a terrorist attack.

It shouldn’t be all that hard to simply denounce a terrorist group that rapes and murders.

But many people (who claim to be on the left) are reacting to this this in the exact same way that the alt-right reacts to a mass shooting. “It’s the media’s fault! It’s complicated, you just don’t understand!” Everything except denouncing the act and those behind it.

It seems people are struggling to accept they were supporting some very horrible people and were wrong to do so.

Yes it is. If everyone shares this dream then it’s a reality. But people like Hamas prevent it from being a reality.

Israel is unleashing holy hell on Gaza right now. Because paradox of tolerance states that while we tolerate many things, the evil intolerance of Hamas cannot be tolerated.

You can go ahead and use words wrong and continue using words wrong and I’ll continue to think you’re an idiot.

Do you have a special word for brutally murdering an innocent woman, stripping down her corpse, parading her dead body through the streets? What word can you come up with that will make this action acceptable?

Look at the video again. These are the guys you’re carrying water for. Do you want these things to continue? Is that why you support these barbarians? Why can’t you simply condemn Hamas as the evil fascist monsters they are?

From your logic, nothing is fascism. The Nazis were the Nationalist Socialist party, therefore communist therefore not fascist! If the Nazis called themselves the Christian Nationalist Socialist Party would that make them a theocratic movement? Do you think North Korea is a democracy because they call themselves the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? Do you always believe all authoritarians everywhere all the time?

Fascists lie. I mean they’re willing to murder people in the millions, why would you think lying would be a bridge too far for them?

You don’t know a fascist by what they claim to be. You know them from their actions and the emotional manipulations they use. These guys are all blood and soil in their own manifesto.

When you’re the king you don’t have to call yourself the king. When you’re a religious movement you don’t have to demand people to consider you to be a religious movement. Hamas declaring that their blood and soil narrative is a religious conflict gives away the game. They wouldn’t need to make such demands if their politcal intentions were implicitly religious.

Totally circular reasoning!

Circular reasoning is when I ask for a reasonable plan for Hamas’ future that wasn’t propaganda and you provide me with propaganda directly from Hamas. I point out that fascist narrative even in their own propaganda documents and you declare it circular reasoning because I’m repeating the fact that fascists lie. Even your “proof” that Hamas isn’t fascist is dripping with well worn fascist narratives.

And so we’re back to the point of the circle where you’re again just saying “YOU’RE WRONG WHY DON’T YOU JUST ADMIT IT!”

Didn’t know I had a fan monitoring my posts.

We are literally in a thread about people parading the corpse of an innocent woman through the streets as if it’s a trophy.

You’re talking about comparable logic bullshit to rationalize out why some racism is ok or whatever.

Which of us has lost the context?

You missed the part where he’s trying to distract everyone from the horrible actions of these barbarians by bringing up other non related actions done in the past as if that makes the things done today are acceptable?

I have a friend that has Thai writing tattooed on his leg that translates to “I love chicken soup.”

I think when he was drunk he went into a tattoo parlor thinking it was a restaurant.