Bus shooting in Jerusalem

Have you not read any of the many threads on Palestinian civilian deaths in CITME? The same users spend hours every single day filling them with whataboutary.

Apparently, some see Palestinians as expendable, and the deaths of 28+ children a day as just ‘war.’ That’s horrifying.

You're not covering yourself in much glory. If your empathy boils down to death by numbers, it's not really a good look. Even when you're advised posters are saddened by all fatalities, you still do the whataboutery on Palestinian deaths. Do you not read what they are saying?

Well exactly.

Why?

I’ve never said I have no sympathy for innocent Israeli civilians. My point is that it’s hard to feel the same shock over eight deaths when entire classrooms of Palestinian children are being killed daily, repeatedly, for years.

Do you have sympathy for the tens of thousands of civilians killed by Israel? The civilians whose tents in so-called safe zones have repeatedly been bombed and set alight? Or is there a “but” there?

Sympathy and truth aren’t mutually exclusive. You can care deeply about civilians while still holding leaders accountable for the scale of destruction they’re causing.

At this point, with entire neighbourhoods bombed and children killed daily, it’s likely anyone left is being radicalised simply by surviving.

It's not a numbers game. My sympathy and compassion for all the victims in this conflict is limitless because I'm not blinded by bigotry.

Every single one of those threads, about the deaths of civilians, has been repeatedly full of ‘buts’.

So you have no place in your heart for innocent Israeli civilians. What an extraordinary admission.

It’s hard to sympathise with eight deaths when entire classrooms of Palestinian children are being killed daily. Hind Rajab, a five-year-old girl, shot at 355 times by an Israeli tank, left bleeding in a car for hours while begging for help, as paramedics trying to reach her were targeted and killed. Perhaps seeing the mutilated, bombed, or starved bodies of children every day on repeat for the last two years has depleted my reserves of sympathy.

Talk about it on one of the thousand other CITME threads that aren't about Israelis and Jews being murdered in terrorist attacks then?

If your sympathies are followed by a “but”, you’re not sympathetic.

HOW exactly could Hamas “stop it all”?

• November 2023: Hamas agreed to a ceasefire and released over 100 hostages, planning more, but Israel broke the ceasefire with bombings.

• February 2024: Hamas agreed to phased hostage releases; Israel rejected, demanding a permanent ceasefire.

• April 2024: Hamas proposed another deal similar to Israel’s, but Israel rejected it; US officials reported deliberate stalling.

• January 2025: Israel finally accepted a deal calling for all hostages to be released- but then launched surprise attacks, breaking their own agreement.

So, despite Israel’s narrative that this is “about the hostages,” the pattern suggests it’s being used to justify ongoing bombardment and consolidate political power. Even families of hostages say Israel is leveraging them as a political tool to extend the war- regardless of the risk to the hostages themselves.

The propaganda took hold quickly and effectively. Hamas are more successful at brainwashing than Israel are in committing genocide.

Entire classrooms of Palestinian children have been slaughtered every single day for the last two years?

…and Hamas so could easily stop it all and get started on rebuilding their destroyed homeland while saving children’s lives and providing them with a future that isn’t based around death and martyrdom and yet they don’t.

Maybe it feels like ‘incessant noise’ to you, but the reality on the ground isn’t noise- it’s the suffering of millions of civilians, half of them children. The slaughter of over 20,000 children, including at least 700+ infants under 12 months. That’s not an opinion- it’s what’s happening.

Your post I was responding to didn't say anything of the sort so that's clearly not what I'm doing. But you just carry on derailing the thread with the usual hyperbole and distorted personal accusations if you feel it achieves anything. Just make sure no-one mentions the Palestinian terrorists who shot up a bus full of innocent Israeli civilians today, killing six people and injuring twelve.

Religions being equal in the UK…like Northern Ireland??? The Troubles weren’t really a shining example of religious tolerance 🤨

You understand that Israel is a religious state? It doesn’t excuse that sort of behaviour (spitting at anyone is gross and should be treated as assault) but it goes some way to explain it. There will be more extreme religious types in Israel than in the worldwide population. Tbh, I think spitting at people is a damned sight better than Jihads or executing people who don’t practice your religion the way you think they should but maybe that’s just me…

Not this again 🙄

For "most people", read most of this board's resident guilt trippers. It's just incessant noise, now.

You can hide behind your laughing emojis and vile language all you want, but the reality of what’s happening is clear- and most people see the truth.

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Yawning while children are being killed- classy

Meanwhile, Israel is repeatedly bombing areas they’ve declared ‘safe’ zones, including babies in tents, and even setting light to the shelters.