Mildly Infuriating

Don't be crazy and cite information from over two years ago (when nobody gave a fuck whether Palestinians lived or died).

Huh - it's almost like the whole situation is kinda complicated to those of us trying to understand for decades and shouldn't be simplified by useful idiots who just tuned in and spent their energy in the streets instead of the ballot box.

There really isn’t a good solution but that’s something that people really don’t want to hear.

Actually there is a good solution, you just don't want to hear it. Free Palestine.

Israel is dropping bombs on Gaza and telling the civilians whose families are murdered that it's in the name of Jewish sovereignty. No wonder some Palestinians hate Jews. Israel is telling them to.

Stop killing their babies and their mothers, and they'll stop joining Hamas.

There's good solutions, and there's easy solutions. They just don't align. It's just those with power prefer the latter over the former, cause it helps them keep that power. Their end goal also generally isn't peace...

Which is really what this post is about. It's about the tactics used (by "both sides") to vilify their enemies and galvanize their base. To create extremists and reactionaries who think little and act a lot.

The real rub is those parties, the "good guys" and the "bad guys" (interchangeable depending on which power player we're talking about) are vastly outnumbered by the people caught in the middle. If they stopped reacting and started thinking, those power players would lose their momentum.

Hamas is a terrorist organization that’s calling for the extermination of all Jews

This is a lie on par with "Ukraine is controlled by Nazis".

Around 6,000 soldiers went into Israel and murder and tortured innocent people. Palestine is pretty innocent as far which isn’t great for them as they are getting caught in the middle.

Damn, crazy how Israeli citizens are "murdered and tortures by Hamas soldiers who went into Israel", while Palestinian citizens merely "get caught in the middle"

Fucking disgusting use of two faced rhetoric.

The Hannibal directive was used by Israel to intentionally target and kill any Israeli prisoners being taken on Oct. 7. Israel has come out and said it. The attack was horrible, but every action by Israel was about wiping Gaza off the map. They were just looking for "acceptable" ways to accomplish it. As for torturing people, many Palestinians who were not part of Hamas were held and tortured. The people who returned to Israel all seem to be saying they weren't tortured and were mostly bored sitting around waiting. It very much seems like a situation where a group was marginalized, constantly poked and proded, and then when someone responds they use it as reason to invoke further marginalization. Over and over until a "terrorist" organization was formed. Without such treatment, Hamas would have had no reason to exist. Zionism appears to have caused the entire issue.