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Parrhizzia's avatar

This is correct - history started on Oct 7, and nothing happened before Oct 7.

There is absolutely no justification for any of Israel's enemies to attack Israel ever, but every atrocity that Israel ever committed for 75 years before Oct 7, or since Oct 7, is fully justified by what happened on Oct 7.

Israel is the only victim, the perfect victim, the forever victim.

If you find error in this post-hoc logic, you are an antisemite, and want to kill all Jews everywhere.

I could write for the Atlantic.

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Mike B's avatar

Similar to Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah both publicly stated their support for the destruction of Israel. Prior to October 7th, I thought Hamas opposed negotiating with Israel on a two state solution. Just going by what I've read from multiple news sources and heard their leaders and members say in videos/news stories.

And Israel has citizens who, with govt. support, have moved onto and seized land owned by Palestinians. This is wrong. Israel has now killed thousands of civilians in their desire to eliminate Hamas (the group that wants to destroy Israel).

Primarily targeting and killing non-combatants, like Hamas on October 7th, makes people hate you more. Killing non-combatants in search of your enemy, like Israel, also makes people hate you more.

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