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Hamas attacked Israel first

Israel has the right to defend itself, and we should give them unconditional support in their war against Hamas.

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 @9S3FT82Socialist from Ohio  commented…2yrs2Y

Netanyahu provided Hamas with lots of money to empower their terrorism. He is the biggest wager of genocide since Hitler

 @9ZKV443  from Alabama  disagreed…2yrs2Y

#8 Engaged Foreign policy

Are you kidding me! How can you compare a JEWISH leader to Hitler?! Hitler was a power hungry bloodthirsty tyrant who killed 6 million innocent Jewish people because they were not of his so call”master race”. Israel has never wanted anything but peace. Israel has removed troops from territories (1978) and given up land (Gaza, 1994) to pursue peace with their Muslim neighbors. They did not start this war, Hamas did. They are the ones who started this war by killing innocent civilians, yet they are not being held accountable. This utterly outrageous.

 @B2YBXWD from Indiana  disagreed…1yr1Y

It's astonishing how wrong you are in every aspect of your comment.

Focusing on the discussion's context, israel literally made hamas.

The violence is completely asymmetrical, with israelis terroristically killing thousands more Palestinians than israeli casualties, and israel was founded on the extremely violent expulsion of the Palestinians living in the territory. Palestine is basically an open air prison that israeli is actively starving, shelling, i.e. waging a genocide against.

Ultimately, though, israel should not be getting any support from us (the United States). They are a black eye for our foreign policy, they do not share our values, they do not treat out people well, they are not a good ally, they are totally parasitic in nature.

 @B8VLR6H from Texas  disagreed…7mos7MO

Engaged Israel #4 Engaged Foreign policy

genocide is genocide. israel does the same thing to palestinians and nazis did jews. The last election in gaza was in 2007 when 75% of the current population were not of legal voting age. To call it a war is doing injustice to the 80k killed, 170k injured. Israel has raped and pillaged the gaza strip with nobody to hold them accountable.

 @B98FWJM from Texas  disagreed…5mos5MO

#5 Informed Israel

If they truly wanted peace, they wouldn't establish a state on stolen land in the first place.

  @Renaldo-MoonGreen  from Pennsylvania  commented…2yrs2Y

Hes honestly starting to pass Hitler at this point...

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington  commented…2yrs2Y

He's made mistakes but he's not even close to as bad as Hitler

  @Renaldo-MoonGreen  from Pennsylvania  commented…2yrs2Y

He's started a genocide and got Israel to invade surrounding countries...

Hitter started a genocide and invaded surrounding countries...

The difference is...what?

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington  commented…2yrs2Y

(1) There is no genocide in Gaza. Yes, some civilians are dying, but it is not a deliberate mass-extermination of people for racial reasons

(2) The surrounding countries to Israel he is invading have terrorists that hate Israel and repeatedly attack it

(3) Hitler killed 7 million people

And on the list goes.

I do not support aid for Israel, because I oppose ALL foreign aid period. But I acknowledge that Israel was brutally attacked on October 7 and has a right to defend itself. I disagree with some of what it does, but Israel is not an evil empire.

 @9PZ3WW2 from Georgia  commented…2yrs2Y

Any country has a right to defend itself if attacked, and I can personally disagree with Israel's method of defending itself while you can personally agree with their method of defending themselves, but the U.S. doesn't give billions of dollars of military aid to any country in the world that is attacked, and we shouldn't. Why are we wasting billions on aid to a foreign country?

 @9SY839JIndependent from New York  commented…2yrs2Y

Palestine has the right to defend itself and they have had that right to defend themselves since the illegal occupation of their land that started in 1948

 @B7MVG7J from Maryland  disagreed…9mos9MO

#7 Informed Israel

Who occupied Gaza in 1948? Hint: Not Israel. So why didn't an independent Palestine get created in 1948? Because the Arab states never created one when the controlled Gaza and the "West Bank".

 @9V8RCRSDemocrat from Pennsylvania  disagreed…2yrs2Y

Countries have the right to defend themselves. But they do not have the right to do so by committing war crimes.

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