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I am tired of these comparisions. The Ukraine war has a clear good and a clear bad side. The same cannot be said about the Israel/Palastine war. Both parties are equally shitty. There is just one side much more powerful so more capable to commit cruelties. The only clear good people here are the civillians suffering on both sides.
Seems like both articles should be horrified about a bombed hospital but maybe that's just me.
A hospital full of civilians being bombed is bad regardless of the context. There's no point in media outlets spinning shit like this. They're just acting as propagandists for Israel by throwing softballs like this.
Palestine is far more black and white than Ukraine. I'd recommend you read up on it.
Okay, so Russia Invaded Ukraine. Russia is the Aggressor.
The Hamas attacked Israel, so Israel exterminates Palestine and claims it wants to exterminate the Hamas. The Hamas have committed Warcrimes and hides the self behind Civilians and the IDF does a whole lot of warcrimes too. Both sides are shirt,, just the IDF has done a bit more shit than the Hamas. Theres no good side in this conflict. Both sides want to exterminate each other and sacrifice the Palestinian civilians for this.
I don't know where you see a more black and white scheme in the middle east conflict than in the Ukraine war, but I'm willing to read your explanation.
You appear to forget 75 years of israel invading Palestine. And putting Palestinians in a concentration camp.
And 75 Years of the Hamas Attacking Israel. Israel has killed much more Palestinians that the other way around, but its still more complicated than The Ukraine war.
There was no nation of israel before Israel committed mass murder and near genocide on the Palestinian people. Then they shoved them into the concentration camp of Gaza. Made them.wear special green badges just like the Nazis made them wear the star of David arm bands. They make Palestinian people walk on the opposite side of the street in many places. They do not have the same rights to life liberty or property that Jews have. The Israelis were the first aggressors. And have continued almost 100 years of brutalization against the civilian people. The Israelis are no better than the Nazis that they fled from and in my opinion are not deserving of a nation of their own.
Ukraine has also been attacking russian troops since the beginning of the invasion, what's your point?
That highlights the point precisely. Ukraine is targeting Russian troops, i.e. legitimate military targets. Hamas targets civilians and uses civilians as human shields. The IDF doesnt care how many civilians they have to go through to get to Hamas.
They also started sending unmanned air vehicles with explosives to Russian infrastructure such as oil. Which I'm not against. Because they're defending themselves against an invasion. As Palestine is doing. The situation of Palestinians is much, MUCH more dire than that of Ukrainians, so it's only to be expected (not to be confused with justified) that their response is also more violent.
Sorry, but that's strictly false, and propagating that shit is heinous. I'll paste here what someone else said in the comments:
Hamas hasn't been around for 75 years.
Dude they have been fighting for the whole time and for every bad thing Isreal has done Hamas has done one back.
Ever heard of the saying "and eye for an eye and the whole world is blind". Well both sides are blind now.
The only correct take is that both sides suck and the palastenian people are the ones who suffer. To take a side in this conflict is uninformed, as both sides have way too much blood on their hands. This is very far from black and white and simple.
This is just blatantly false. You don't know anything about the history.
What was the 2018 march to return? Only one side is seeking peace. And israel only seeks destruction.
This Genocide is what israel has been doing for over 75 years.
Damn, that's disgusting. I'll rephrase it in terms that hopefully will make you understand why it's disgusting: "Ukraine has been fighting back the invasion the whole time, and for every bad thing Russia has done, Ukraine has done one back"
What are Palestinians supposed to do? Peacefully accept being relocated and murdered by the hundreds of thousands? Should Ukrainians just have given up? Is Ukraine wrong for targeting infrastructure inside Russia with explosive unmanned air vehicles now?
One side has blood on their hands because it's the invader, the other has blood on their hands because it's the invaded. This is the most stupid take I've seen.
And helping Hamas get into power in order to
If you want to see what happens when Palestinians cooperate with Israel, look at the West Bank:
https://apnews.com/a-look-at-how-settlements-have-grown-in-the-west-bank-over-the-years-0000019079d8d0f6a3da79dcbd0a0000
75 years of Genocide makes it pretty black and white to me.
You're kinda downplaying the word genocide with your comment. Not a very efficient genocide if it's been going on for 75 years.
This is not an opinion of mine, it's what I read from your comment.
Nothing about middle east conflicts is close to black and white. I'd recommend you read up on it.
Imagine saying a literal Nazi style Genocide is not black and white.
Are you going to say Hitler actually had a point next?
Godwin's Law strikes again. The sure sign that someone has run out of logic for an argument
Are you denying israel is committing Genocide?
Just stop. This conflict has been going on for ages and is so complex, people have to actually study this shit to even remotely understand it.
Russia just fucked Ukraine.
All of this aside, the comparison of the two headlines is just dumb. The left side was from 2023, right after it happened. This was the official statement back then. What should they have written instead? They even used quotation marks. Fucking hell.
Spoken like a true racist, grouping up "middle east conflicts" as if it was a single entity.
Pretty easy actually, Palestinians were there living their lives and having a sense of nationality as Palestinians since the latter years of the Ottoman Empire. Zionists decided they didn't care about that, decided they deserved their ancestral homeland, and western countries helped them militarily to relocate hundreds of thousands of people and murder tens of thousands on top. It's almost quite literally that easy.
I'm Iranian, and there's no hope of going home any time soon. It's perfectly acceptable to lump the middle east in that statement. Show me one conflict in that region that's not black and white.
I assume you mean the opposite. I'll bring you one about your own country.
In the Mosaddegh era, a democratically elected, secular, progressive, leftist leader was well on the way of successful policy for Iranians through the nationalization of the oil industry which, up until then, as you probably know better than I do, was extracted by the British Petroleum with the knowledge and approval of the Shah (thanks to some juicy "contributions" to his personal fortune paid by the British), leaving almost no profit from the Iranian oil to the Iranian people. The British blockaded Iran militarily, and through MI6, with help of CIA, staged false-flag attacks on private businesses through paid actors who pretended to be communists (the party was in Mosaddegh's coalition). They literally bribed local mafias and gave them loudspeakers to pretend they were popular protests to prime people. And the poverty induced by the military economical blockade, summed up with all this shit and much more, made it so that the Mosaddegh government was deposed and the status-quo was more or less restored, and British Petroleum was happy.
Tell me how that's not black and white.
That isn't how racism works.....is racist turning into the left version of "woke"? His comment wasn't even out of ignorance, that is what that area is referred to, and nothing about conflicts in that area (including the topic at hand) is black and white...
Care to explain it if it's so simple? You have no idea what your talking about..
Simple:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
The whole "so difficult conflict which goes so far back that it's impossible to know who's guilty at this point", starts in the late 40s with the invasion of Palestinian land by Zionist settlers, and the violent displacement of 750.000+ locals.
Israel = Nazis.
It's literally that simple.
Here's a good recent article have fun informing yourself.
Holdup! The Israilies are trying to create the aryan race and kill all Jews? Man..it really IS complicated!
I know you're getting down voted to hell but I agree. People are losing sight of just how shitty Hamas is. This is exactly what they wanted, they care even less about their own peoples lives, happy to use them as human shields. A hundred thousand martyrs. Fucking embarrassing to be human sometimes.
No one is losing sight of that, they're correctly making the point that there is no justification for bombing a hospital full of patients and that the justification the IDF gave has been found to be false.
It's the opposite. Israel/Palestine war has a clear evil side (Israel) and a clear victim (Palestine). Ukraine war is a complicated mess.
That is a wild and backwards take!
So the victims are the ones who openly call for the death of an entire group of people? Their founding Charter literally calls for the elimination of Jews.... and after they slaughtered the women and children in October they said they'll do it again. They're the victim to you? Interesting.
It's funny, because I've seen so many white nationalists assert the exact opposite.