A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

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    7 months ago

    I get that this is the other side of the conflict, but this is a whataboutism. All of that which you wrote can be true without invalidating what the previous person wrote.

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      7 months ago

      When one side is committing a genocide and intentionally killing children then maybe, just maybe, it’s important to call that out.

      What the OP did was try to justify an ongoing genocide by calling the other side terrorists.

      That is what you’re defending by calling responses to that as whataboutism. Good job.

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        7 months ago

        What the OP did was try to justify an ongoing genocide by calling the other side terrorists.

        I don’t believe that is what their comment was implying at all. Again, both things can be true. Hamas can be terrorists and Israel can be guilty of exceptionally disproportionate violence fueling an agenda of unforgivable genocide.

        Reality doesn’t exist in black and white.