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Devil_May_Cry posted...

I never said criticism of Israel is antisemitic.

"Look at these poor Israeli diplomats that have to justify their genocide to the UN because those idiots at the UN don't know what their 'Never Again' badges mean."

At every turn since the most recent eruption of open war, you've been quite clear that you believe anyone critical of Israel's actions (actions which include wholesale slaughter of civilians, destruction of critical civilian infrastructure, deliberately engineering one of the worst refugee crises in recent memory while actively impeding efforts to provide humanitarian aid, and other blatant war crimes) is doing so because they're antisemitic, not because Israel's government (which is notably very distinct from Jews as an ethnic collective) is comprised of genocidal maniacs and people don't like that. You've been handwaving atrocities and digging as hard as you can for silver linings in an apparent effort to garner sympathy for Israel (who doesn't deserve it) and Jewish people (who do deserve it, but generally already have it among the circles where you're saying these things).

If that hasn't been your intent, consider this a wake-up call that you need to re-evaluate how you've worded things and how you interpret situations in which people are critical of Israel, because that is the position you've been communicating.

Devil_May_Cry posted...

Palestinians should have the right to happiness and all but Hamas is the problem.

Hamas isn't the one forcing Palestinians to line up for hours every morning to cross checkpoints to get to work. Hamas isn't the one expropriating Palestinian's homes and inviting Jewish immigrants to come take them. Hamas isn't the one forcing babies to be delivered in the mud at the side of the road because pregnant women in labour haven't been able to get through checkpoints fast enough to reach hospitals.

Hamas is *a* problem, absolutely, but they are not the only barrier to Palestinian happiness. Brutally oppressive apartheid policies that punish innocent civilians simply for being born the wrong race ensure that's not a readily attainable goal. Those policies are, in many ways, why Hamas exists: The dogmatic nature of the conflict in the Middle East and the grossly unfair way in which Israel was created mean there will likely always be antisemitic extremists one way or another, but it would be a lot harder for those extremists to gain traction against an Israeli government that treated Palestinians as equals than against an Israeli government that gives Palestinians a legitimate reason to hate them (hatred which, in turn, victimizes innocent Israeli citizens).