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It’s not “both sides” to accept the reality of the situation.

This is you, 42 minutes ago:

both sides are terrorists

Anyway, I’m done. Enjoy being a stooge for genocidal powers you say you don’t support. If this were a post on my home instance I’d be a lot more rude right now; as it is, all I’ll say is that this experience, for me, is best encapsulated in this emote:

Ooo, I can play this game too: https://hexbear.net/post/251036

Why would I need to check your history? You’re both-sides-ing a settler-colonialist genocide here. Hamas’s goal is fighting off the Zionist entity, not genocide, and your acceptance of that horseshit claim makes clear that you believe anything the Western media tells you, hence your appeal to the authority of “experts” (all of whom are doubtless employed by, or at minimum enthusiastically on the side of, Western media companies or militaries) on this particular claim, rather than any independent thought.

PS: Since you’re so dependent on “experts,” here’s some that argue the opposing side: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/19/what-hit-ahli-hospital-in-gaza https://www.channel4.com/news/who-was-behind-the-gaza-hospital-blast-visual-investigation

No one who believes the (absurd and obviously false, in this case) lies of genocidal monsters is on the side of the Palestinians, full stop, especially if you think it’s wrong for Hamas to use violence against the oppressors.

PS: I love how you’re more ready to be skeptical of Palestinians claims about number of deaths than you are of Israeli claims of innocence.

lmao an R160 managed to kill 500 people when one has literally never managed to even kill 10 before? Come on. You’re not even subjecting these claims to basic common sense.

PS: It was likely an antipersonnel munition, and it burst in the air; the tiles are irrelevant, you credulous fool.

lmao kindly name the type of military hardware Hamas has that could have caused that explosion. I’ll wait.

…you should maybe have just read the page I linked rather than doubling down on this one, friend; this isn’t a good look

https://feheleyfinearts.com/whats-the-difference-between-inuit-and-eskimo/

Apparently you’re new to Lemmy. It used to run on Websockets, meaning that the page would update in real time. Meaning that every so often you’d be reading something and it would move to somewhere else, or off the page entirely. They recently ditched Websockets, so that doesn’t happen anymore.

So in other words, one has to exclude significant, heavily populated areas that are being governed by the state of Israel in order to claim that it’s a democracy. It is deeply unclear why one would want to do so, though, given that the same government has given its full endorsement to settlers moving into these same areas, and has given absolutely no indication (in recent decades, at least) of ever intending to vacate these territories.

Maybe if you only count citizens, but there’s a large oppressed population called Palestinians, maybe you’ve heard of them?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/jews-now-a-minority-in-israel-and-the-territories-demographer-says/

According to Soffer, there are 7.45 million Jews and others along with 7.53 million Arab Israelis and Palestinians living in what he termed the Land of Israel, meaning Israel plus the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Yep, very clear demonstration of the fact that Israel is an apartheid state, given that it is indeed run by Jewish people despite the fact that Jewish people are a minority of the people living there.