My issue with posts like this is that I could dig up similar quotes from politicians in the UK, the US, or pretty much any country - we've all had our share of awful, inflammatory figures. Yes, Israel has its fair share of appalling politicians. But let’s be honest: if your country had endured what Israel has - thousands of rocket attacks, massacres, and neighbours openly calling for your destruction - what do you think our own politicians would sound like?
My honest view? Israel attracts right wing support because the left side with Hamas. And I have seen that time and time again. Jewish people seem to culturally be fairly chill and they protest their gov a lot and have newspapers and groups that rabidly criticise them, and many of them were working hard for peace with Palestine, including giving them free legal help, medical care etc. but ultimately nobody cares about that.
Those people are erased and the biggest crackpot people can find is wheeled out to portray Israelis as evil. which then justifies Israelis being treated like shit around the world - I mean, I have seen them banned from hotels, restaurants, people demanding they were kicked out of sports tournaments and so on. I don't understand it at all. They cannot ever do enough to meet what people demand from them,
More importantly, this kind of one-sided criticism ignores what the other side is saying - and doing. Hamas and similar groups aren’t just talking tough. Their genocidal language is written into their charters, shouted in public, taught in schools, and acted on in cold blood. They don’t say “we want to negotiate.” They say, “we want to kill every Jew,” and then they try to do it - targeting civilians, babies, grandmothers.
So here's my question: what do people actually think should happen? If Israel replaced every hardline politician with a peace-loving moderate, do you genuinely believe Hamas and its allies would lay down their weapons and stop trying to kill them?
They wouldn’t.
Israel has tried peace talks. It has withdrawn from territory. It’s released thousands of prisoners. It left Gaza entirely - and got war in return. There is nothing Israel can do in the eyes of groups like Hamas - and whether people like it or not these groups are the representatives of Palestine - that can solve anything.
So why don't people instead share the quotes of Hamas? Why don't people focus on holding them to account? Why don't people ever expend even 5% of the energy doing that? Because maybe every time they denigrate Israel and ignore the elephant in the room they are empowering the very people who keep the conflict alive.
I recall spending so many years hating Bibi because he encapsulates everything I hated about Egypt and the middle east - I was soft and fuzzy and wanted everyone to have everything and because my mind worked that way I genuinely believed on 6th October 2023 that we were a few years away from peace and the blockade being removed.
Bibi believed, even resigned from government, that if Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and it would become a terror enclave that threatened Israel and I thought he was nuts at the time. But he was right, and they are openly saying he was right. So do I get why Israeli people vote for this? Yes, because they probably don't want to get killed. And I honestly believe when the threat is removed everything else will fall into place. So what I want to know isn't what some dick head said, but what is being done to save Palestinians from the eternal loop of trying to destroy Israel? Because whatever people here think, honestly that is never going to happen. The only question is how many more people die to prove it.