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Originally Posted by O-tacular
Maybe he understands that innocent children and civilians are also Palestinian and deserve freedom and not to be carpet bombed out of existence.
Why is it so easy for some to see the suffering of Ukrainians but not Palestinians.
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Well, Russia chose to start the war with Ukraine while this latest conflict began with Hamas, not Israel.
I don't actually think the objection that Hamas throws gay people off of rooftops is that relevant but the Palestinian protest movement seems to have a lot of problems and pretty low informational content. You have the "river to the sea" people, the general disregard for suffering on the Israeli side, and too much credulity around people accepting whatever comes from Hamas. For example the death numbers in Gaza come from Hamas and they have an incentive to exaggerate. We don't really know what is happening there.
The narrative around genocide of Palestinians also doesn't fit in with their rapidly growing population. It would be valid to blame Israel for not working hard enough to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza but so many people just say Israel shouldn't be allowed to retaliate at all and needs to live with Hamas next door working on destroying them. The October attacks proved beyond all doubt how untenable that is.
I think the anti-Semitism and low information bandwagon effect behind these protests probably encourages Israel. They know that most of these people complaining about Israel either hate them no matter what or will be onto the next issue of the day soon, and anyway these people mostly don't offer any useful alternatives. Hate-on for Israel aside, what do we expect them to do? I am not sure leaving Hamas alone is even best for Gaza as eventually they will run Gaza into the ground more and more while provoking Israel into greater and greater responses.