For all those with friends and family and Israel...hope your safe

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For those that have friends and family in Israel just a quick message to hope all is OK at this worrying time.

It’s so sad.
And this is what people who go on so called “peaceful marches” and shout ‘globalise the intifada’ are calling for.
if you go on those marches, that’s what you’re choosing to stand alongside and the company you’re choosing to keep.
Why would anyone want to align themselves with people who want to see Jews murdered just for being Jewish??

What are you going on about? You don't have the right to just slander people like that or throw accusations blindly.

The pro Palestine marches were calling on the Israeli government to stop killing innocent Palestinians... and you take that to mean they 'want Jews murdered for being jews'? You seem to think the only reason people could possibly support Palestinian people is because they hate Jewish people? Palestinian people do not exist as an aside to Jewish people. In fact there are Jewish people who are also Palestinian. The protests are against the Israeli government, not Jewish people.

i hope you understand that Palestinians are also people with daily lives and hopes and dreams. I really wish you could see this, and think about how many innocent children have been killed in the past year. I really wish you would also use your voice and ask for the killing to stop.

The protesters do not mean harm. Please stop spreading this hateful narrative.

I hope those brave emergency workers are allowed to do their jobs safely and manage to get home to their families... unlike the emergency workers in gaza who were murdered by Israeli forces for doing their job. The Hind Rajab story continues to haunt me

The protests are against the Israeli government, not Jewish people

Oh stop, you'll be telling us next they just have a problem with Zionists, not Jewish people.

This is not the thread for the posts that I replied to either.

Agreed, HelenHen was only pointing out that many people sympathise with Palestinians and don't hate Jewish people or want them dead, for being Jewish. That's an absolutely awful thing to say. As is saying that Muslims love their children less than they hate Israel. How dare anyone say such a thing.
Why can't we sympathise with people in the middle east without it descending into this nastiness.

Why can't we sympathise with people in the middle east without it descending into this nastiness

Says the poster who comes onto a thread like this and spells Israel as Isreal....

Take a look at yourself

I'm very sorry for my typo. I do actually know how to spell Israel. Surely we all make typos occasionally? No disrespect was intended.

Agreed. I read this thread and posted on it with the intention of showing support to any innocents caught up in this.

I cannot turn a blind eye though to those taking the opportunity to say bad things about people who just want the killing to stop.

Please just take that elsewhere and keep this thread as a means of love and support for those who need it.

You didn’t spell Israel wrong though so nothing to apologise for if this is the post being referred to.

I did on another post. It was purely a type and I didn't mean to offend anyone from Israel.

Typo! Not type. As you can see, I'm prone to typos...

Ah ok, it happens to everyone don't worry.

Pretty sure I did intifada wrong too but these things happen.

I would love nothing more than peace on this thread (and elsewhere ofc).

I mean it's a spelling I see often on these boards and I generally assume that it's done as a passive aggressive statement to suggest Israel should not be a recognised country....

But I appreciate your explanation and apology

Hi all,
Good to see some sort of reconciliation on this thread, let's keep posts civil and respectful if we can and keep ironing out any misunderstandings in good faith.

@HelenHen one minute it's policing the thread then it's what about, what about, what about.

If you have something else you wish to discuss you can always start your own thread rather than dominate this one whose thread title is quite explicit.

I have a dear friend in Israel with her three girls. It is so scary. Her and her girls are incredibly brave. I don't think I'd be as brave as she is.

Lebanon couldn't afford the air defence system Israel has regardless of what Hezbollah is or isn't up to.

Plus I am fairly sure Lebanon is not allowed an air defence system like Israel has and I think it is linked to the UN resolution 1701 which Israel is supposed to adhere to "Any crossing into Lebanon is in violation of Lebanese sovereignty and territorial integrity, and a violation of resolution 1701."

Really? I have seen pro-Israel posters spell it incorrectly too. It’s an unusual word and not everybody is good at spelling. People are more than able to write ‘anti-Israel’ comments without resorting to intentional spelling mistakes.

@Silence1 no bunkers either or safe rooms? Israel being prepared has saved thousands of lives. Seems you have chosen to ignore the countless other ways countries can protect their civilians and prioritise them?

I don't think picking over 1701 when the crux of it is that ' no armed militias are supposed to operate in the whole of Lebanon' has hardly been stuck to, is going to do any good?

Could it possibly be that they can't afford it because terrorists are stealing a whole lot of their money and spending it on weapons instead?

Plus, bomb shelters wouldn't be against any resolutions. But Hezbollah would rather start a war and then complain that Israel is deigning to fight back.

So much hate on this thread. What hope does the world have if people can't see past their differences and stop taking orders from the people in power that are telling you who to hate. No one is born hating, it's taught. A life is a life and all life is precious, I hope everyone stays safe on all sides and I know it must be a worrying time for so many people with friends and family in all the affected countries.