There’s this rule. The Dunning Kruger effect. Where if you know nothing about a subject you assume its very complex, if you know a little bit about a subject you assume its straightforward.
Americans will often side vociferously with Israel really without questioning the humanitarian aspect becuase they make assumptions. That the Israelis live their lives under siege, that everyone killed is the bad guy or one of the bad guys.
There is nothing more indiscriminate than a bomb. Nothing. The IDF could be more discriminate. If they wanted to be. They chose instead to rain bombs down on Palestine.
I read about a fight to rescue 41 workers stuck under a tunnel in India. All that energy and international focus reminded me of those kids trapped in the cave. But it also made me think of all the people trapped under rubble, slowly starving or suffocating under the walls of their own homes. No one is coming to dig them out. Hundreds of people. Men, women children, dying alone and slowly under a pile of immovable rubble. It’s indiscriminate and its murder. The gas chambers, while horrendous, were at least quick. History will not look kindly on this barbarism.
The situation in Palestine is straightforward for everyone who hasn’t lived it. For Jews the palestinians are fine unless they are kicking off. “I dont hate palestinians, only the violent ones” is something you will hear a lot from Israelis.
But their standard of living is so bad, and kept worse by continual monitoring, that it creates instances of frustration and suppression that lead to violence. No people can live under a government that actively hates them.
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