I have just watched this documentary and it broke my heart.
Hamas are revolting monsters, I can't call them animals because animals wouldn't even do that.
I do wonder how the younger, very outspoken generation would:
- Feel if that was a festival they went to and watched their friends get slaughtered
- Have said if there were social media at the time of WW2
Would we have been viewed in the same way Israel has been? The causalities of war were far greater.
I do not support the way in which Benjamin Netanyahu is going about this war at all but I 100% agree with Israel's right to defend itself.
They seem to be the only war I can think of where a country being attacked from all sides, from countries who do want mass extermination of Jewish people (do the younger generation still get taught about the holocaust anymore) who are repeatedly being told to stand down by the west.
To remind the younger generation of previous war casualties (for anyone with the argument that this war is completely out of proportion):
WW1
- UK - 885,000 deaths
- Germany - over 2 million deaths
WW2 - is this proportionate?
- 1.5 - 3 million deaths in Germany
- 210,000 dead - Nuclear bombs into Japan
- 70,000 innocent dead - England
Iraq War
- 179 English soldiers
- 4,492 US soldiers
- 186 - 210,000 Iraqi civilians
No civilian should ever be harmed in war, it is evil however it is inevitable.
How many Jewish people should be killed for Israel to be supported in defending themselves.
So the "the death toll is completely out of proportion" argument doesn't stand.
Yes, we can go back to the time before the bible and argue who has the right to the land. But this current war was started by Hamas and Hezbollah the following day.
However, please don't try to say they want mass extermination of Jewish people just because of the land.
People spitting on a naked woman's dead body when brought back into Gaza, footage filmed by Hamas.
Lets call this what it is pure racism, just like the Nazi's, who killed 6 million Jewish people.