[cogman10]

I can fully grant the list as accurate and even undercounting the number of attacks that have happened.

It, frankly, pales in comparison to the number of civilians the IDF has killed and is currently killing. No amount of terrorist attacks can justify starving a population or dropping bombs on the tents of refuges.

Like, I'm sorry, but an attack in 2024 that injures 20 people and an attack in 2023 that kills 1000 is simply not comparable. There are literally 1000s dying weekly right now in gaza. The IDF is daily shooting starving children that go to the Israel's ran aid sites.

Israel does not have the right to commit genocide.

[halflife]

The OP said that Israel is not a target of terror attacks.

[albumen]

Yes, very good, OP's wrong and you're right.

Now, if you'd address the 8,000,000lb elephant in the room that would be great.

[cogman10]

Sure, I don't agree with that assessment, but I get where it comes from.

I find the "what-about"ism somewhat tiring at this point. What Israel is currently doing is unconscionable.

This is really not unlike trying to criticize the war crimes committed during the Warsaw uprising or the actions of John Brown. Were they wrong? Yes. Were they understandable? Absolutely. Bringing them up whenever someone brings up the actions of the Nazis or the slave owners is what's problematic. It tries to strip away the humanity of people that are being slaughtered in order to justify the slaughtering.

[halflife]

I pointed out the error in his post, everybody else is “what-about”ing at me in response.

[cogman10]

K.

Did you need to point out that error? You can see why we'd read your response as running cover for a state actively committing genocide, right?

[halflife]

Yeah I did. I have friends that lost family from these terror attacks. Twice while on a date with my wife at our local bar we had to flee because of a Palestinian started shooting random people in the street. I had the luck to have a birthday party cancelled at this location on this date https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphinarium_discotheque_bom...

So having a random person on the internet explicitly lying about these experiences and having other people upvoting him kind of grinds my gears.

[cogman10]

Understandable.

Now, do you condemn the genocide? Because the problem here is that even though you've experienced a traumatic event, 1000s of Palestinians who never shot at or bombed your family are being shot at, bombed, and starved.

Do you acknowledge the Palestinian right to exist?

[zapataband2]

There's no error in my post. "terrorism" is a political racist term mainly used to benefit white colonial powers and label freedom movements as below their oppressors.

I don't think brown people trying to save themselves from a concentration camp are terrorists, therefore the terrorist state of israel is not the target of a terrorist group. In fact how could they be when it is them that are invading Gaza for 40+ years.

I know you're not this stupid, you're just racist.

[halflife]

But you said that Israel is a terrorist state, so that isn’t political? Which is it?