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You're blinded by your own zeal. If 50% of a population is too young to have an opinion/respond to a poll then the maximum any response could give is 50% (assuming 100% adult agreement). |
I’m a new poster (and of Jewish descent btw). Your logic makes zero sense to me. Maybe let’s try a different angle. If not for 10/7, Israel would still be controlling water and air and land access into and out of Gaza. Thousands of Palestinians would still be held in Israeli prisons without charge (ie some might same this is the same as being held hostage). According to Gallup’s Basic Needs Vulnerability Index, which measures people’s ability to afford food and shelter and their social safety nets, prior to 10/7 two-thirds of residents in Gaza (67%) could be classified as highly or moderately vulnerable before the war. Fifteen percent were highly vulnerable, meaning they struggled to afford both food and shelter and did not have family or friends who could help them in times of need. Anger was also on the rise. In summer 2023, 44% of Palestinians in Gaza said they experienced a lot of anger the day before they were surveyed. This is the highest level of anger recorded in Gaza since 2018 (48%), when the “Great March of Return” protests began, which called for an end to the blockade on Gaza and the right of return for displaced Palestinians. Thousands of Palestinians were killed and injured in that period. With this backdrop, 10/7 (as horrible as it was) seems sadly and tragically inevitable. I simply don’t understand how Israel’s actions now are making the situation any better. If there were Palestinians that didn’t hate Jews before, I am sure they do now. |
I don’t think you have your facts entirely straight. This report is enlightening and does not paint life in Gaza as all sunshine and rainbows. https://news.stanford.edu/report/2023/12/05/palestinians-views-oct-7/ Some key points below: In early October, Arab Barometer, a central resource for quantitative research on Arab countries, completed its most recent survey in Palestine, offering unique insight into the views of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza just prior to 10/7. About 75% of people living in Gaza said they face food insecurity – nearly a 25% increase from the Arab Barometer’s 2021 survey. Only 23% of respondents said they have a great deal or quite a lot of trust in Hamas; 52% had no trust at all in Hamas. Nearly 80% believed the economic situation in Gaza and the West Bank is bad or very bad. A majority – 56% – believed the country’s economic situation will be somewhat worse or much worse in the coming years. Most Palestinians said their freedom of speech is guaranteed to either a limited or no extent at all. |
Murdering 1200 and injuring thousands is different than stealing a ring |
And murdering 30k+ and injuring tens of thousands is on a different level as well. |
Only because in your deranged mind, any one of those 1,200 lives is worth more than ALL of the other side's lives. That's the real problem underlying this conflict. |
911, same thing different country, US eliminated 3.6 million, 30k ain't much. They should give better thoughts into voting for hamas |
Also, not all 1,200 (I think it's actually 1,139) were killed by Hamas and other militants from Gaza. Many were killed by the IDF, which took incompetence and callousness to new levels. It shelled buildings and cars containing Israelis. |
The response to 9/11 was absurd, but the US probably didn't eliminate 3.6 million. The number of dead in Hamas is going to be much higher than 30K when this is all over. More people will probably die of disease, starvation, and lack of healthcare than from the bombs and tanks. Israel is going to leave a huge mess behind for someone else to clean up when it gets through its paroxysms of violence and destructions. |
Well, when are Jews going to oust Bibi and his right wing religious minions? |
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The IDF put a baby in an oven and baked it in front of it’s father.
Let that sink in. The IDF is raping women in front of their children then executing them all at Al Shifa hospital RIGHT NOW. Everything that has been debunked that they claimed was done by “hamas” they are doing to innocent Palestinians. I will NEVER, EVER support Israel. Our government hid 3 BILLION for Israel and has pledged to defund any UN agency that backs Palestine in the newest bill that was just passed. DISGUSTING. |
Stop being obtuse, stop making up bogus arguments, and READ. THE. DAMN. LINK. https://pcpsr.org/en/node/969 That's the main problem with nuts like you - you cling desperately to your stale, old, debunked arguments and opinions even in the face of information that's far more concrete and which would actually answer your "math problem" if you actually READ for a change. |
| Israel has shown they are evil. Support them if you want but make no mistake Israel does not have the moral high ground. |
Do you have citations from credible sources to back up your wild claims about the IDF baking babies in ovens or raping women in front of their children? |
The 30k amplified by the fact of Hamas hiding among civilian populations and using them as human shields, along with Hamas stealing the food, medicine, water and supplies for their own troops while leaving fellow Palestinians to starve. If Hamas wasn't such a group of violent callous, scumbags a lot of Palestinians could have been spared. That's an absolute fact that cannot be disputed or denied. Hamas is every bit, if not more complicit in those deaths as the IDF. There is no getting around that fact. |