[BiteCode_dev]

The problem with this rhetoric is that bad people have a strong incentives to let others think they have strong support. Unless you are living in the area and can talk to citizens directly, it's going to be damn hard to make any informed decision about that fact.

E.G:

In the link you cite, the numbers come from "the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research". Researching how reliable this source is is a huge and hard work I'm assuming most HN users have neither the resources nor the skill to do. Medias outlet and politicians from all sides have demonstrated little benevolence or competence so trusting them to do that is also a stretch.

Even in France, I'm distrusting statistics from INSEE (!) now because it's so hard to verify neutrality. Condemning people to death based on those information is unwise.

Even if the data is true, where does that lead you? American have elected Bush which lied about WMD and went to war with Irak against the vote of the UN, killing thousands of civilians.

Do Americans deserve to die?

In which case which people from which country would be absolved from that judgement?

[crabbone]

Dude. I lived in Ashkelon for two years. In this time I worked with people from Gaza too. There's no nuance there. Whoever talks about it has no clue. Antisemitism for these people is not a curse word. It's a society that similarly thinks about women as lesser, less deserving beings for example, without any reservations.

To them Jewish lives aren't important. And the fact that Jews are allowed to tell them what to do generates explosive righteous indignation.

Imagine yourself being ruled by chimpanzees. It wouldn't matter to you how benevolent they are, whether you have food or roof above your head. You'd feel like it's absurd, and whoever drove you into the situation where an ape tells you what to do must be brought to justice. This is how the average Gazan feels.

[BiteCode_dev]

That's a more interesting comment than most things I've heard or read on the topic. But again, given I have no experience and I've never been there, it's almost impossible for me to be confident in forming a decent opinion.