General Discussion

Zionist militias like the Hagenah, with the aid of the new IDF, had not herded like cattle into a newly-downsized Gaza (Strip) 250,000 Palestinians native to what is now the "Gaza Envelope of Israel" in 1948-50 - then declared they could never return. Those that resisted their ethnic cleansing were killed. Those that tried to escape their imprisonment and dispossession and return home were shot.

Gaza was much bigger pre-1948 than it is today, did you know that? It wasn't just a "Strip". It was orders of magnitude larger. All of it was to be part of the new Palestinian State, per the UN Partition.

Guess who took by force those vast fertile lands of Gaza, populated with cities like Beersheba and Sderot (built on top of the Palestinian town)? These were fertile lands stretching towards the Negev and the farmland and market that provided much of its sustenance and economy. It's called the "Gaza Envelope" of Israel today.

They were the same lands that the October 7th attacks happened on.

Think about that.

It really should not be hard to understand cause and effect.

Anything that happened after that stems from that one original crime, never acknowledged and never made right.

Right and wrong, humanity vs inhumanity is melodrama?

Next thing you know, calling Gaza a genocide will be "melodrama" too. Oh wait...

20,000 dead kids and I'm the problem? Those kids and 50,000++ others are dead because of the manufactured consent for the genocide with the aid of talking points that tried to defend the indefensible and provide "context" and "perspective". I well remember the arguments over the "human shields" excuse for indiscriminate bombing and murder.

Now the UN has found Israel committed genocide by, among other things, deliberately targeting children. What were you saying about dead Israeli kids? BTW those deaths from a kidnapping-gone-wrong was thoroughly avenged by the BURNING ALIVE of a Palestinian child. Later of course to be followed by the BURNING ALIVE of thousands of Palestinian kids in Gaza.

Every child death or the death of an innocent is a tragedy. If it is deliberate, whether of the 3 Israeli boys, or the tens of thousands of Palestinian kids is a crime against our own humanity.

But let's not gloss over root causes and pretend they never happened or don't play a role. And let's not make excuses for it by playing up false equivalencies and prioritizing the suffering of one side over the greater suffering of the other in a genocide. That's too tribal for my liking. ymmv

And please let's not call the person saying these things and appealing to shared humanity and decency for over two years of a genocide the "problem".
Peace.