It's not that it is "only" 700, it's that we actually have no idea how many were actually killed by Hamas and not the IDF, since the source is Israel. My comments are to this point exactly.
Israel's insistence on being an ethnostate in which citizenship for non-Jews is extremely difficult if not impossible means that any attack on it will seem like an attack on Jewish people for being Jewish and not because it's an occupying power that refuses Palestinian statehood. Of course there is antisemitism, but look how muddied the waters become when this term is used to label any criticism of Israel. This is another reason why Zionism is antisemitic.
Must I really come out and say I am not in support of Hamas or that I think those killed on October 7th deserved to be mourned? This is always expected of us. But if the people mourning the killed Israelis really wanted there to be an end to bloodshed, they'd realize the Zionist project cannot continue and that so long as it continues there will be attacks on citizens. I don't think the government of Israel even cares about those citizens (it is on record that Israel has funded Hamas in the past) beyond PR optics--it's just the necessary price someone else pays so Israel can continue its settlements.
Last edited by Orwn Acra; 12-29-2023 at 10:18 PM.
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