Jewish Group

I am angry and outraged by what the Netanyahu government is doing. That being said, I see no reason to pull out cheerleader pompoms and start rooting for Hamas. They’re a sectarian authoritarian state and they made life hell for their own people before October 7th.

And so what do they do? They attack Israel and then go hide themselves and their hostages behind human meat-shields, using their own people as bullet sponges.

And we’re supposed to be rooting for them?

I won’t.

As for Israel’s neighbors…if it had been the Assad doing unto their own people or the Lebanese, I doubt we’d be hearing this discussion. They’re as bad as Netanyahu or even worse.

As for Israel. Whatever may be said of the Palestinians, it is no secret that the Palestinians’ dear friends and allies helped co-create the Palestinians’ plight. Whatever sins may be laid at the feet of colonialist governments, it is the Arabs who drove out the Jews and Christians in their countries and made them Juden-frei (or nearly so). Examples: Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen.

Small wonder that the Israeli right is so brutal to the Palestinians—many of them are the people the Arabs drove into the sea, a fact that a lot of callow and well-meaning wanna-be progressives ignore.