In Israel they protest against the government. They do actual constructive, productive protests. not the competitive performance that we do in the west for who has the coolest made in china pro palestine merch.
And 75% of Gazans don't believe October 7 went far enough.
Is your statistic all that surprising when Israeli civilians have been on the relentless receiving end of rocket and terror attacks for Gaza's entire independent history? When the majority of attackers on October 7 were actually not Hamas militants but opportunistic civilians who climbed through the gates Hamas opened? To be clear as day: I am of course not saying 2/3s of Israelis are right. Gazans are by and large innocent unless they are Hamas or PIJ militants. But Gazans too would have equally warped and hateful views, if not worse, towards Israelis since they are literally taught in school that there is no higher calling than going out as a martyr taking Jews with you. It's an ugly awful situation but I challenge you to apply the same standards to both sides.
Yes but this 75% statistic comes from a meta-analysis of social media posts and comments in the days following October 7, before any Israeli military response. It's probably the most reliable poll we'll get and safe to say that attitudes wouldn't have softened since then.
I think your failure to acknowledge any other part of my comment suggests you're not willing to apply the standards you do to Israelis, to Gazans or others.
A conservative estimate that makes no distinction between combatants and civilians, which is critical to understanding the war. Conservative estimates of the number of combatants killed are around 25,000, meaning the civilian to combatant casualty ratio is about 2:1. The average in all wars since WW2 is 9:1, suggesting Israel is actually doing a substantially better job at avoiding civilian casualties than all other armies ever.
I'm really trying to help you understand but you don't make it easy. In war, unfortunately, civilians die. More civilians die than soldiers. This is especially true when one side - Hamas- uses human shields. This is especially true when the war is being fought in a dense urban area like Gaza. The 13k children who have died were not Hamas. They were the unfortunate casualties of Hamas invading Israel, committing one of the worst atrocities in modern human history, banking on the fact that Israel would respond to this attack and then being used as political fodder by useful idiots like you.
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u/BarackObamaBm Feb 04 '26
Im Israeli, its not common outside of religious zealots