seems like the ‘safe’ public opinion is ‘we stand behind israel’ and the left opinion is palestinian support

i don’t live there i don’t have any particular interest or fascination with the region i don’t understand any of this pls don’t yell at me

  • radix
    91·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, that was messed up.

      • radix
        7·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know enough about wars to say there was any that was completely squeaky clean, but there’s a spectrum. Like, Britain killing Germans in WWII probably wasn’t as bad as what Japanese soldiers did in Nanjing. It was bad, but not as bad.

          • radix
            5·
            1 year ago

            I suppose so. Still, Britain could have fought fair, on the battle fronts, after evacuating civilians. They weren’t wrong for fighting WWII in the first place; they were wrong for how they went about it.

            One point I saw elsewhere in this thread is that Western military support makes it such that if Hamas were to create actual military posts to fight a fair fight like I was imagining, then Israel would just bomb those places and that would be that. No more armed struggle by Palestinian forces because there would be no more Palestinian forces. So the only way for them to have a chance is to fight dirty, hiding among civilians and such.

          • dumdum666@kbin.social
            23·
            1 year ago

            With exactly the same argument (Hiroshima/Dresden) Israel could flatten Gaza because „war“