I did no such thing. The Israeli settlers are just as much crazed religious lunatics as the average Hamas member.
But over and over again the Palestinians have proven to be their own worse enemies.
It is a false and self-defeating dichotomy, to think condemning the evil and injustices of others, requires throwing away your own support for justice. Committing or being complicit in symmetric crimes.
Ok, we are close to agreement.
> But over and over again the Palestinians have proven to be their own worse enemies.
That's a good way to put it. Palestinians and sympathizers who support crimes against Israeli’s, are destroying their own people’s prospects.
It is awful and depressing.
Likewise, Israeli settlers, who perpetrate violence against Palestinians, counter productively motivate radicalization against Israel.
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But things go beyond what you have acknowledged.
Israeli's leaders protect those radicals. They are not held accountable.
I am encouraged by the Israeli military's many successes against their enemies. But sad that radicals in Israel, and their crimes, are tolerated and protected by its leadership.
That’s called murder.
We are talking about families, men, women, children, brutalized. By uninvited invaders. Chased off their own property. Systematically. With complicity from authorities that are supposed to stop and rectify crimes.
Your (lack of) moral logic is this is ok because there are other Palestinians that are not innocent.
Unlike you, I won’t judge other people, or groups of people, based on you. Only you are responsible for inhumanity which you attest to.
Crimes are crimes. There are no good excuses for any of them.
How are you any different from the people you condemn?
How does your selective sense of justice not validate the people you condemn?
If you don’t stand for justice for everyone, including Palestinians, you are no different from those who approve of atrocities to innocent Israeli’s in response to the crimes of other Israelis.
Several times here I have clearly confirmed I stand with Israel against anyone harming its people. Iran, Hamas, any of them. But their crimes don’t absolve other crimes by other people.
I believe people with selective justice are doing great harm to Israel. Undermining its moral standing, and feeding its opposition, in these conflicts.