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In reply to the discussion: Names and ages of killed people in the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza [View all]Violet_Crumble
(35,961 posts)I notice that in yr first post in this thread you equate Jews with Israelis in a very clumsy attempt to paint the person daring to mention that there's a lot of dead Palestinians as being motivated by antisemtism. Here's a bit of obvious information for you. Antisemites tend to conflate the two terms so they can come out with lines like 'The Jews are oppressing the Palestinians' which is about the Jewish people rather than about Israel. The reality is that there's a lot of Israelis who aren't Jewish and a lot of Jews who aren't Israeli.
What's happening in Gaza is big news around the world because innocent people are yet again dying. There's no requirement that people must talk about every other death everywhere else in the world before they can talk about what;s happening in Gaza and southern Israel.
Hamas is legally elected, isn't it? Chosen by the people of Gaza?
Blaming the people of Gaza for somehow bringing this upon themselves is sickening.
Also, listing the dead in Gaza isn't proclaiming that only Israel has blood on its hands, no more than it means people don't care about dead kids elsewhere. What comes through loud and clear is an inability on yr part to display the slightest bit of empathy and care for the civilians being killed when those civilians are Palestinian...