Israel is the greatest military power in the Middle East, and it can't shut down it's home-grown secessionist terrorist problem even with all our tax dollars.
I say, we cut it's foreign aid if they're just going to use it to make weapons to kill civilians. That's a war crime, no matter how my brother or anybody else tries to slice it as "anti-terrorism". Even worse, this diverts the government's attentions from the problems like poverty with a poverty rate of 20%
In addition, it's clear that Israel makes our early 2000s America look horrendous. For instance, 1000 Palestinians were killed on the grounds of "500 of them were militants".
Unacceptable for a democratic state, much less a explicit ally of the United States.
You make it sound as if Israel is deliberately targeting innocent people. While the deaths of innocent Palestinians are undoubtedly tragic, it's hardly an industrial-scale My Lai. Besides, Hamas must shoulder some of the blame because of their cowardly tactics.
Not as cowardly as holding somebody incommunicado before trying them before a military court, is it?
Or using human shields.
Or targeted killings.
Since when does the IDF use human shields? That's a tactic Hamas uses.
It's a documented fact, by HRW, AI, and the UN.
And it was banned by Israel's High Court of Justice. Besides, Hamas got that ball rolling.
And Israel's military is still doing it.
Ironbite-because they don't care as long as a single Palestinian lives
Oh please. You talk as if Israel is committing outright genocide.
Probably because they are?
Oh, fuck off. Yes, there are wingnuts calling for the genocide of Palestinians. Yes, what Israel does is questionable. But it's not genocide. Are Palestinians being worked to death, or shot on sight, or herded into gas chambers? No, they're not. That kind of exaggerated, dangerous, irresponsible rhetoric only hurts your case and the Palestinian cause.
You want a real genocide? Look at Rwanda. Look at Yugoslavia. Look at Darfur. If Israel
was committing genocide, would they have withdrawn from Gaza? Would they have recognized the PLO as the voice of the Palestinian people? Would they have arrested the men who killed Mohammed Abu Khdeir? Would they have hesitated to fire on Palestinian civilians (as they have done repeatedly)? No, they wouldn't.
You know who
is genocidal? Hamas. They who cheer on the deaths of innocent people just because they were Jewish. They who teach
The Protocols of Zion as if it were true. They spread stories about the blood libel, deny the Holocaust, and consider the only good Jew to be a dead Jew. It's clear as crystal who the real genocidal maniacs are.