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Originally Posted by Leondros
I was initially quite supportive of Israel responding in a military sense. What changed quite quickly was two main factors:
1) The staunch resistance to allowing humanitarian aid, food, water, medicine, etc. into Gaza
2) The messaging associated with evacuations, and then immediately bombing the same areas (ie. being completely unreasonable towards to the general population in terms of realistic time frames to move) or bombing the areas in which they told people to move to.
That's at least for me, and it was early on where I lost the sympathy.
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Pretty much the same for me. To go in aggressively after Hamas was understandable. Early on it was clear that their definition of "aggressive" was more like what I would call "ruthless and cruel".