"If I came at you with a hundred men, to kill your extended family, and we killed 10, then retreated, your family would be wise to pursue us and either get our surrender or kill us all, thus ensuring that we could never do it again"
Of course! I couldn't agree more! But that's not quite what's happening here is it?
"If I came at you with a hundred men, to kill your extended family, and we killed 10, then retreated, your family would be wise to pursue us and either get our surrender or kill us all, thus ensuring that we could never do it again"
Of course! I couldn't agree more! But that's not quite what's happening here is it?
To improve your analogy, this is like 30 men coming from the next town over and killing ten members of my family, and me responding by indiscriminately killing three hundred of the people in that town, maiming around seven hundred more, destroying countless homes, cutting off access to food, water, medicine and power, and making videos on TikTok mocking them while 150 of their children starve and die.
But it gets better!
The people in that town? I've trapped them in there! I blockaded them there by land, air and sea for 17 years, subjected them to oppressive, international law-breaking military rule, and have killed tens of times more members of their family over the past 75 years than they've killed of mine.
And let's not forget their extended family in the nearby town of "West Bankia." Since the attack, I've killed 400 of them too! Why? No reason, they weren't involved, but I've been systematically stealing land from them for decades too, killing them as needs be, and this seems like a good excuse to crack down on them.
*That's* what Israel is doing.
I have no problem with Israel destroying Hamas. I have a problem with tens of thousands of innocent people who *aren’t* Hamas being wilfully slaughtered. And I have a problem with people acting as if the history of this conflict started on Oct 7th. The goal for any sane person here is a lasting peace. I wish both Israelis and Palestinians every success in this. But you can't demand peace while your foot is on somebody's neck.
p.s. Seems like you didn't understand the point being made in the introduction. But hey, anybody can read articles on Substack.
"If I came at you with a hundred men, to kill your extended family, and we killed 10, then retreated, your family would be wise to pursue us and either get our surrender or kill us all, thus ensuring that we could never do it again"
Of course! I couldn't agree more! But that's not quite what's happening here is it?
To improve your analogy, this is like 30 men coming from the next town over and killing ten members of my family, and me responding by indiscriminately killing three hundred of the people in that town, maiming around seven hundred more, destroying countless homes, cutting off access to food, water, medicine and power, and making videos on TikTok mocking them while 150 of their children starve and die.
But it gets better!
The people in that town? I've trapped them in there! I blockaded them there by land, air and sea for 17 years, subjected them to oppressive, international law-breaking military rule, and have killed tens of times more members of their family over the past 75 years than they've killed of mine.
And let's not forget their extended family in the nearby town of "West Bankia." Since the attack, I've killed 400 of them too! Why? No reason, they weren't involved, but I've been systematically stealing land from them for decades too, killing them as needs be, and this seems like a good excuse to crack down on them.
*That's* what Israel is doing.
I have no problem with Israel destroying Hamas. I have a problem with tens of thousands of innocent people who *aren’t* Hamas being wilfully slaughtered. And I have a problem with people acting as if the history of this conflict started on Oct 7th. The goal for any sane person here is a lasting peace. I wish both Israelis and Palestinians every success in this. But you can't demand peace while your foot is on somebody's neck.
p.s. Seems like you didn't understand the point being made in the introduction. But hey, anybody can read articles on Substack.