The Israeli government (led by Netanyahu) and the rising far-right in that country are no better than the terrorists of Hamas. If anything, they're worse. They're a more powerful and organized version. The far right, which has gained power recently, is everything you imagine it to be. Racist, homophobic, pro-segregation, pro-violence.
Ethnic cleansing, forced evictions and territory grabs, war crimes, violent repression of protests, arresting and physically abusing children, bombing and killing civilians. These are actions you expect of a terrorist group, not of a country simply defending itself from terrorists.
I have nothing but sympathy for the many innocent Palestinian and Israeli people caught in the middle of this.
I don't know why the "left" continues to defend Israel as somehow innocent or the victim in this.
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