pratik
pratik
I was reading about why the U.S. vetoed the UN Security Council vote on the Gaza ceasefire. It apparently wanted to make the ceasefire conditional on Hamas releasing the hostages. Sounds fair to me. Do opponents not want Israeli hostages released? 🗳️ In the regular scheme of things, Hamas may have not expe... microblog.pratikmhatre.com
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Denny
Denny

@pratik I haven’t yet checked out the link, but I will do so after I post this. Why do qualify oppressors with “so-called”?

Also, I think you have it backwards in your framing of violence here. Anybody that looks at the statistics on violence for the past 40 years can plainly see the vast difference in violence on the two sides in the history of a very one-sided conflict. To be clear it has been the Israeli side that has engaged in war crimes and land theft for decades.

Again, I will say that war crimes are never justified on either side and Hamas has been rightly condemned for war crimes. And yet Israel has been given a free pass for decades, why the disparity? The disparity seems to say that war crimes matter, but only when one side commits them.

So when you refer to one side losing the right to complain, it sounds a bit weird to me. It almost seems like you’re justifying Israel’s violence.

@davidmarsden @kimberley_rose

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