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HHH_is_the_game posted...

For the people not understanding why this is controversial, its like after George Floyd coming out with a scathing video against BLM. Even if you have good points its going to upset people when Jewish people are hurting and feeling nervous and victimized and feeling like the world is against them. Except in this case there are both sides of the conflict who are at risk groups and the other side feels the exact same way and both sides can make a case for it. It's an incredibly messy conflict and the only thing we can all agree on (most of us, anyway) is being Anti-Hamas

I would not have chosen that analogy. And while of course it is a messy conflict, that's in no way reason to give up trying to understand or discuss it, and protecting people's feelings isn't a reason to be quiet during war crimes. John Oliver lays out a very solid and evidenced line of reasoning how Netanyahu's government takes a lot of blame here and why the US standing behind Israel's current methods is wrong. It's not an option to do some sort of agree-to-disagree thing here where everyone says "at we least all dislike Hamas" because one faction is explicitly using that as an excuse for war crimes against civilians, and they must be challenged and stopped.