Smoke, Slingshots, and Spongebob: the Middle East crisis in photos

For real? Just about every mention of Hamas on this or the other thread has pointed out that they’re horrible. There is no love for Hamas here. But you keep arguing as if there were, because it apparently doesn’t occur to you that people could object more to an organization killing dozens of times as many civilians without being pro-Hamas.

Or hey, ISIS, you sure never see anyone condemn them! That’s not an idiotic strawman, no sir. Don’t we know there have been casualties, and even a person killed? If Israel has the restraint not to “glass” the rest of the Middle East over that - that’s usually spelled g-e-n-o-c-i-d-e, by the way - why would anyone think they deserve less than our full endorsement?

And then we can wonder how, when Israel is so nice it even gives people the chance to evacuate to who-cares-where before destroying all their infrastructure, disgusting hate-mongers like Hamas keep getting power in the first place. Sure is a mystery. Sure wouldn’t help save even Israeli lives to figure out why, and take measures that might gradually reduce rather than renew the conflict.

This isn’t a war the way WW2 is, rexdude, it is a case of two people who are stuck with each other. If you can’t see the differences that entails, and you’re too busy assuming everyone who condemns one side supports the other to understand explanations otherwise, we are done here.

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