@freemo
I am guessing you deleted yout toot because of too much trouble with people hungry for blood, not a differentiated view?
Responding in private:
> Sure, but considering for 100 years Israel has effectively done the same by crowding them into small ghettos, cut off their water and electricity, and let them fester in their own feces in their own land... Every day for a palestinian is another act of terror from Israel... where was the call to action then, where were the people sending tanks to palestine? We sent all the tanks to Israel, and none to palestine,l a terrorist country committing genocide, now all of a sudden we should be acting to enable Israel? Thats very contradictory
I think you took aim and then narrowly missed it.
The question is not what happened before, but what is there now.
As you rightly said: "neither has the right to continue commiting war crimes simply because the other side commited some".
This means for me that defending against hamas is right, but only against hamas. So they are amongst innocent civilians, using them as shields. There is no excuse for not doing everything possible to stop them with as few civilian casualties as possible, just as they have lost every claim of a right to their actions when they accepted innocent civilian casualties.