• GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Poll results were also hawkish when it came to the use of force in Gaza: 57.5% of Israeli Jews said that they believed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were using too little firepower in Gaza, 36.6% said the IDF was using an appropriate amount of firepower, while just 1.8% said they believed the IDF was using too much fire power, while 4.2% said they weren’t sure whether it was using too much or too little firepower.

    Source:

    https://time.com/6333781/israel-hamas-poll-palestine/

    • astreusEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Well goddamn! That’s insane! Thanks for the source.

      However, I’d still argue collective punishment of the (up to) 6% is still wrong. And the idea that they 94% are somehow too far gone to be changed is defeatist in the extreme!

      I’d also argue that no one is inherently fascist or unsavable. Brain washing can be broken. Calling for the deaths of roughly 9m people (as some of the others in this chain have done) is inherently wrong and plays into the reactionists hands (“they’d do it to us if they could so we need to do it to them”).

      EDIT: On top of that, I want to highlight the date: November 10, 2023. The poll was conducted a month after Oct 7th. I would be interested to see what the polls say now.

        • astreusEnglish
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          6 months ago

          none of these people are redeemable

          That was you.

          Which led to someone else replying:

          Statistically speaking there probably isn’t a nicer country if you were going to do a Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

          • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            6 months ago

            The second comment was a joke, and even then I didn’t call for any violence.

            Also how tf do you hear someone say a group of people are irredeemable and your first thought is that they’re calling for violence? I think Trump supporters are irredeemable too; lots of people are irredeemable that doesn’t mean violence is ok.

            The call is coming from inside the house with this; if YOU think that violence is justified when a group of people are “irredeemable” that’s your fucked up problem.