This thread really does not need to descend into tit-for-tat name calling when there is a situation so serious, with such a global reach.
I cannot grasp some people's take on events when upto 200,000 Palestinians have been killed by weapons supplied by the UK and US, yet the words 'murderous cult' are used to describe Hamas/Palestine.
As a genuine question, why would anyone (especially in the absence of Western journalists in Gaza) dismiss the findings of Human Rights Watch, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International, and the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, who all state that Israel is committing a genocide?
Are we so entrenched in our political views that such evidence is routinely dismissed?
Now, I expect that someone will ask me how I can dismiss the atrocities committed by Hamas, especially on October 7th. I don't dismiss something so appalling, and I feel for the families of all those who have been lost, but then I think to the formation of Hamas in 1987 and a conflict that began 40 years earlier, so I cannot blame Hamas for what has happened. They seem, to me, to be a symptom of the occupation, in much the same way as the IRA emerged. I also think about the gradual seizure of land by Israel, and imagine myself in a position where my home was being cuckooed by someone under the threat of force. I cannot imagine the pain of that, and the utter helplessness.
As I said earlier, it seems to me that thinking just on a human level leads to a very definite sense of right and wrong, not right versus left.
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