Currently Israel are fighting Hanas in Gaza, The Houthis in Yeman and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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One country taking on so many terrorist organisations.

Or is it so many terrorist organisations constantly attacking Israel.

So many hate filled terrorists. Why don't they ever focus on their own people and a better life for them. Are they all raving mad.

Absolutely! It is convenient, for some, to overlook the actual history, preceding 07/10. It isn't black and white. It isn't good v evil.
It is understanding the reasons why terrorists sprung up. This doesn't mean excusing their actions, far from it.
These Ben Gurion's quotes are prophetic

"IF I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"

"We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai."

"When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves — this is only half the truth. As regards our security and life we defend ourselves and our moral and physical position is not bad. We can face the gangs... and were we allowed to mobilize all our forces we would have no doubts about the outcome... But the fighting is only one aspect of the conflict which is in its essence a political one. And politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. Militarily, it is we who are on the defensive who have the upper hand but in the political sphere they are superior."

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I think they seem to be being very effective against the heads of these terrorist organisations.

But do you think it’s very bad whoever does it, and should be redressed, or do you only demand redress when you think it’s done by one nation in particular?

Have you noticed how people often shout "whataboutery!" when they don’t want to admit hypocrisy or double standards?

Clearly there is no one word answer.

Now if you wouldn't mind answering at least one of my questions - perhaps start with should Palestine exist? Or more to my point - should Western imperial powers have destroyed Palestine?

It's literally a yes or no question. 😂

But do we ignore past wrongs? Or do we just cherry pick?

After you, I’ll take a word, it’s either, or not both

There should be no homeland created for any people if that involves genocide.

You answer my question and I'll answer yours.

It’s not a genocide- I know you think a few TikTok videos saying it is makes it a fact but it doesn’t. However bravo for finally admitting you don’t think Jews matter, that only took 4 pages of antisemitism.

Of course, releasing the abducted hostages would greatly aid the chances of a ceasefire. That has been the case for nearly a year now, yet the pro-Palestinian "ceasefire now!" marchers don’t seem interested in demanding their release or even mentioning them. I wonder why.

It must have taken quite some mental gymnastics to come up with that sentence.

You say there is clearly "no one-word answer" to whether Israel should exist.

I don’t really understand why not, but if you want to give an answer containing several words I’m sure no-one would object. Go ahead.

A poster said that Hamas should agree to a ceasefire if we want the IDF to stop sniping small children, little boys and little girls in the head. That until then the IDF won't stop. I merely agreed that a ceasefire would indeed be a good thing.

I don't think that the poster who seemed very disinterested in 6 year old Palestinian children who seemingly are purposefully shot or executed and who was the one who brought up a ceasefire could be described as pro Palestinian but perhaps you could take you wee snidey rant up with her.

Israel launched the 1967 war.

My apologies, you're obviously so determined to create a straw man espousing antisemitic hatred from any comment that I should have been clearer.

There should be no homeland created for any people if that involves genocide, displacement of any other people.

Happy?

"Wee snidey rant" - nice phrase! Perhaps I can borrow it to describe your response.

You did not "merely agree that a ceasefire would indeed be a good thing", because you talked about atrocities you say have been committed by one side, but failed to mention anything done by the other side.

So what are you expecting the governments in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc to do then??

Lots of words here, saying very little - presumably because you know you'd be deleted if you said, "They can go back to Poland."

Guess no one in Europe has been displaced from all the Muslims

Not support Israel's continued expansionism and the genocide against Palestinians.

It was a conversation about execution. It seemed relevant to, you know, mention execution.

I didn't realise that mentioning the well publicised execution of little girls and boys would be controversial or that it is beholden to me to mention every atrocity. There are quite a lot of posters on this thread who are not mentioning any Israeli atrocities, are you questioning what that says about them or do you just have a problem with posters who are concerned about child execution?

Tell me.

But those countries have been created in the way you’re objecting to and you don’t seem to have a problem with them.

plus you do realise there’s archeological evidence that there have been Jews living in what is now Israel for 3000 years

why is it that you have such an issue with the world’s only Jewish state?? There’s a word for that you know…

To be fair they've also complete ignored British and French atrocious during the mandate.

Actually they've made no attempt to deny any atrocities bought on the Palestinians or Arab peoples by the Israelis or western imperial powers before them.