[crinkly]

Other side of Al Jazeera is not particularly pretty. No one reads that. One of their "journalist" reports on 7th October who was actually, well, there:

https://www.aljazeera.net/politics/2023/10/7/شهود-عيان-للجزي...

(Use translate)

The joy of killing civilians. Disgusting. My support is gone.

Edit: I can't reply. Forget your whataboutism. Hamas values the martyrdom of their civilians and the deaths of Israelis more than it cares about the Palestinians. That is the tragedy here: Hamas made them perfect victims and political capital.

To note this is not a binary decision. You don't have to support one side or the other. I don't. But holding one to account and not the other is not acceptable.

[AlecSchueler]

> But holding one to account and not the other is not acceptable.

But we only have diplomatic relations with one side and we only supply weapons to one side.

[jacooper]

What about the 60,000+ civilians killed in Gaza? Do they not matter to you? Are Israeli lives more important to you or what?

[throwaway290]

This is literally the strategy of hamas, attack Israel, hide in airconditioned electrified tunnels under hospitals and schools, leave civilian population on the surface suffer when IDF tries to get to hamas and make sure it is publicized.

It's a wonderful 4d chess move unless of course you if you actually cared about Palestinians. Apparently there is a religious justification for it too. Their bandit state makes good use of it and the world laps it up