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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the pro-Hamas posters' comment boil down to:

Israel holds Palestinian prisoners who engaged in terror.
Israel kills Palestinians who plot and engage in terror.
The so-called "nakba" 75 years ago justifies any and all atrocities perpetuated by Palestinians born decades later.  
Israeli actions to suppress Hamas are always unjustified and always result in harm to women and children; terrorists are never to be discussed, and their casualty rates are undisclosed.
Hostages?  Who cares about hostages?
Oct 7?  That justifies nothing, Israel had it coming (see "Nakba, above).

We get it.

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It’s very, very difficult to see how people who think like you could possibly find yourself wound up in never lending conflict wherever you go.

The accountability and empathy meters are so maxed out, what more could you possibly do to get along with others?[/quote]

Easy, Hamas surrenders and releases the hostages.  Casualties which follw that would be tragic instead of predictable and justified.  [/quote]

And what are Israel's responsibilities? How about releasing the detainees, some of whom have been held for years without being charged. How about paying compensation for stolen property per UN Resolution 194? How about preventing its crazies from stealing Palestinian lives, livelihoods, homes, and land in the West Bank? How about ceasing to assassinate journalists who reveal the racist nature of the Israeli regime? How about taking responsibility for past atrocities?

This selfish idea that only Israeli lives matter just doesn't cut it.[/quote]

The current conflict is about Oct. 7, not about anything else.  It is indisputable that if Hamas surrenders and releases the hostages the current conflict would end.  Earlier conflicts were all instigated by the Arabs and and won by Israel; this is no different.  In each case, over 75 years, the fighting stopped only when the Arabs were defeated.  In the present situation the Palestinians can bring an end to the fighting and to their losses, they choose not to by continuing to harbor and support Hamas.   Why they think their intransigence and conduct can be anything but self-destructive is baffling.  Over 75 years, no lessons learned whatsoever.

Israel doesn't provide room and board to Palestinian prisoners out of charity, but to keep them from engaging in terror.  No terror = no prisoners.  Same concept as no Oct 7, no hostages =no civilian casualties in Gaza.

There is no potential for peaceful resolutions of other grievances as long as terror is used as a bargaining chip.  It brings only retaliation and a worsening of the Palestinian condition.

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