• TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    More like Israel != All Jews. Government obviously supports and orders the IDF around so they are as guilty as they are.

    • 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah but then you'd be looking at the Israeli government - more specifically the government of Netanjahu - not Israel. The people are pretty divided about the settlement stuff and the IDF had a hard time getting new people into their ranks recently.

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      1 year ago

      You could also argue that most Palestinians support Hamas, and most support armed conflict against Israel: "53% of Palestinians believe Hamas is 'most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people,'"

      https://apnews.com/article/hamas-middle-east-science-32095d8e1323fc1cad819c34da08fd87

      What's more, 60% of Palestinians apparently are favourable to armed conflict with Israel.

      https://www.jns.org/poll-paradigm-shift-among-palestinians-as-they-throw-support-behind-hamas/

      Whether this includes murdering babies and party-goers, the poll doesn't say.

      • TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        You understand the fact that Hamas also suppresses and silences any opposition in Gaza, right? It's like saying most average Russians support the war because the statistics say so.

        Providing such statistics as you have without this context is lying.

        Not to mention, Hamas has not been voted in since 2014. In the votes that were supposed to happen, Hamas looked to lose, so they decided not to hold the vote at all.