Re:‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF a...
by Nevermark on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @12:09PM
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As you say, neither side is close to clean.
A strong rich country tacitly/actively allowing and protecting illegal settlements and Israeli citizen's violence, land theft, and worse against the Palestinians they encroached on, doesn't leave them a moral high ground. It puts them on par with Hamas vile crimes against Israeli civilians.
Which makes the genocidal starvation of an entire country's population of civilians even less acceptable. (If that is even possible).
The primary difference between them is that the side which openly shouts for genocide doesn't have the means that the side that at least doesn't openly shout for genocide has. (By openly I mean the majority of the people, not select extreme individuals. Some of whom are in positions of power.)
I'm not going the route that it's okay to want to genocide a peoples because of things that were done to them by another group of people. Because if that's your way of viewing this conflict, then Israel has more than enough to point at to 'justify' their genocide.
And I'm not going to excuse calls for genocide with "well, they don't have the power to, so who cares". Because all these routes lead straight to hell. You can't even begin to resolve the conflicts between these peoples.
This conflict isn't nearly as cut-and-dry as say Russia-Ukraine, and it benefits no one to pretend it is. Ukraine never invaded Russia, nor did it commit any terrorism against them. This isn't the case between Israel and the Palestinians.
Between 1968-2023 over 3500 acts of terrorism were committed by the Palestinians against Israel. Of which the vast majority (Between 70-78% depending on if you count purely civilian targets), targeted civilians.
You can argue for a long time which side committed the most heinous acts, but neither side is anywhere close to "clean".