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Giving easy answers for complex problems is where populists always have an advantage.
"We will put conditions on weapons sales to Israel" isn't that complex, but centrists all reject it for exactly one reason.
What one reason in your opinion?
The reason is that centrists support genocide. It's the only policy they don't abandon when they encounter pressure.
I haven’t heard centrists support genocide. It’s however considered questionable if what’s happening can be considered a genocide. To many this is an awful war in a dense urban environment against deeply entrenched terrorists.
I don’t think there has ever been a genocide that the victims could end by freeing the hostages they hold captive.
Genocide apologia is disgusting and you should stop. 14 pages of dead Palestinian infants aren't "terrorists."
Civilians die in every war and of course that’s terrible.
The best numbers currently available are 40k dead total from which 15k are combatants. That’s less than 3 civilians per combatant. Urban warfare is historically much worse.
I don’t think the available information proves the war in Gaza is a genocide. It should stop regardless.
There is no proof that you will accept that the genocide in Gaza is a genocide. Do not pollute my inbox again with your apologia.
The only proof you showed is 14 dead children.
14 PAGES of dead INFANTS. Or as you call anyone who Netanyahu murders for you, "terrorists."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rashida-tlaib-gaza-children
Here's something for you to not read, like you didn't read my comment about 14 pages of dead Palestinian infants the first time, and like you didn't read how I told you to not pollute my inbox with your disgusting genocide apologia again.
Then again, your opinions weren't reached by reading, it's why you're a genocide denier.
Look up the definition of genocide. Dead civilians are not sufficient to fit the definition.
If you don’t want replies, don’t comment on a public forum.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147976
https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2024/is-israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza/
Let's not pretend that there is anything other than the complete slaughter of all Palestinians that will satisfy you. Or your definition of genocide.
I wrote that the war should end and you suggest I will only be satisfied if all Palestinians are killed. You are a deeply unserious person.
That is one way for the genocide to end.
Apparently the one you want.
I want the genocide to end now. You keep pretending it's not a genocide.
Trump supports Israel and would happily nuke Palestine. You are completely daft.
Sure you don't. Keep telling yourself that.