The specific Zionists you are accusing of genocide are themselves Jews, specifically Jews who are the children and grandchildren of holocaust survivors.
The war didn’t start on October 7th though, it started when Zionist terrorists started settling in Palestine and committing atrocities against the local Palestinians and the British. If we could pick and choose when to start history, one could argue that the holocaust was justified because everything was peaceful until the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and just conveniently ignore why the Warsaw ghetto existed in the first place.
I would say the war started when Jewish settlers started purchasing farms and refused to hire anyone but Jews. It ripped any possibility of survival from the people who traditionally worked those farms. It forced their only hope to be fighting back.
For a time both Jews and Arabs lived together peacefully, and the first Kibbutz seemed to want to work together and free the workers from the oppression of the traditional landowners. Once they started only hiring Jews there was no going back. This was the end of peace, and it was started by the Jewish settlers. Oct 7th 2023 is only a small moment in a much larger conflict.
This headline was literally the day before, Zionist settlers killed a Palestinian civilian during an assault. The article goes on to describe Palestine asking for international help to stop armed settler militias, and Israel’s finance minister openly supporting further ILLEGAL settlements. Israel is our ally, but they are not the good guys in this fight. The problem is that Israel is clearly in the wrong under international law but it has toothless enforcement. That’s emboldened Israel to keep breaking the law in building further settlements on Palestinian land. Your boots on their neck is still war to them. I’m not justifying October 7th, but October 7th doesn’t justify still bombing them 5 months later or flouting international law with regards to the settlements.
The specific Zionists you are accusing of genocide are themselves Jews, specifically Jews who are the children and grandchildren of holocaust survivors.
Israel didn’t declare war on Oct. 7. Hamas did.
The war didn’t start on October 7th though, it started when Zionist terrorists started settling in Palestine and committing atrocities against the local Palestinians and the British. If we could pick and choose when to start history, one could argue that the holocaust was justified because everything was peaceful until the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and just conveniently ignore why the Warsaw ghetto existed in the first place.
No, the current war being fought literally started on Oct. 7th.
I would say the war started when Jewish settlers started purchasing farms and refused to hire anyone but Jews. It ripped any possibility of survival from the people who traditionally worked those farms. It forced their only hope to be fighting back.
For a time both Jews and Arabs lived together peacefully, and the first Kibbutz seemed to want to work together and free the workers from the oppression of the traditional landowners. Once they started only hiring Jews there was no going back. This was the end of peace, and it was started by the Jewish settlers. Oct 7th 2023 is only a small moment in a much larger conflict.
So essentially, no matter what anybody says, your argument will be framed around absolving Hamas from any culpability.
This headline was literally the day before, Zionist settlers killed a Palestinian civilian during an assault. The article goes on to describe Palestine asking for international help to stop armed settler militias, and Israel’s finance minister openly supporting further ILLEGAL settlements. Israel is our ally, but they are not the good guys in this fight. The problem is that Israel is clearly in the wrong under international law but it has toothless enforcement. That’s emboldened Israel to keep breaking the law in building further settlements on Palestinian land. Your boots on their neck is still war to them. I’m not justifying October 7th, but October 7th doesn’t justify still bombing them 5 months later or flouting international law with regards to the settlements.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-killed-during-settler-assault-west-bank-town-palestinian-officials-2023-10-06/