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I don't think Tlaib is disconnected. It's true she is a lone voice in congress pleading for relief for the Palestinian people, but worldwide, demonstrations against the unjust collective punishment of the Palestinians are unprecedented, including 160,000 in Tel Aviv.
If you argue that Israel has the right to self-defense, a dubious description of the current military action, then why do the Palestinian's not have the same right to self-defense. There is no difference to my view between the actions of Hamas in October or the IDF currently, except that the IDF casualties are an order of magnitude greater already and climbing. Death by knife or AK47 is no more grisly than death by burning or being buried alive in rubble. Dead is dead. Imagine the damaged children with third degree burns and no pain relief. Imagine ruined faces and bodies; undergoing amputations without anesthesia. These are life altering injuries from which there is no recovery. The Hamas atrocities are in response to prior Israeli atrocities all the way back to the Nakba in 1948. Tit for tat, violence begets violence.
How can anyone believe that the current action by the IDF will eradicate Hamas? Was the US military able to similarly eradicate the Viet Cong, or ISIS, or the Taliban. Fruitless endeavor. This looks to me more like a program designed to drive all the residents of Gaza south, claiming North Gaza for Israel. After all, It the same playbook used in the West Bank currently, and for the foundation of Israel in 1948.
Can we agree that Palestinians are human beings worthy of human rights, and not human animals as described by the Israeli defense minister?
And who would treat even animals so poorly?
Please direct your replies, if any, to the points raised. Cat calls of antisemitism will be roundly ignored. Zionism is not equivalent to the Jewish faith.
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