• Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m an ardent supporter of Israel and their right to defend themselves in these extreme times. This isn’t that.>

    Honest question: after this, will you still continue to be? Because they’re not done.

    • S_204@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m a supporter of Israel, not its government.

      Sadly, they’re not going to stop until Hamas does or they’re destroyed. Just today I was watching an interview where Hamas’ second in command was saying they’re going to continue to do 10/7 type attacks until Israel doesn’t exist anymore. If you expect Israel’s current government to sit back and let that happen, you’re seriously mistaken. No country on earth would allow a neighbor to fire rockets randomly at civilians and call for their people to continue to murder Jews.

      Hamas has made clear they are an existential threat to Israel and sadly, the Israeli government is taking the approach of meeting Hamas on their terms of engagement. It’s getting harder to blame them but I do hope they would be better than the savages who are calling for the death of an entire ethnic group.