They’ve also killed an uncountable number of civilians and that makes me sad.

Yes, civilian casualties are a sad reality of war. Currently the best estimate is 1.3 civilians for every Hamas fighter, which is considerably better than the US Army achieved in Fallujah (7:1).

I’m sick of people who justify the actions of Israel because of the other guys

Well, I certainly don’t. I justify the actions of Israel because they’re achieving real military objectives in a war of survival they didn’t start while acting with the utmost restraint with regards to the civilian population of Gaza.

And causing human zoonosis for that whole time

There are wet markets all over China and have been for…ever?

Sure, and they all result in zoonotic illness.

The lab location and research done means there is a lot of potential incentive for the Chinese government, the lab and even researchers in the field to not have it be a lab leak…

They also have incentive for the origin not to be a live animal market that they very publicly had claimed to have already shut down.

It’s equally embarrassing either way, so the embarrassment proves nothing.

I mean you’ve seen people with COVID by now; did they look much different?

The IDF has killed or captured two-thirds of the al-Qassam brigades and it makes me happy

Hamas doesn’t use pagers, they use tunnels

There’s literally a dish called “Irish potatoes.”

Irish cuisine has a lot of potato dishes. Because they were cultivating potatoes.

Are all Palestinians Arabs?

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I’ve heard of it. It happened in the 1800’s on another continent. Can you explain what it has to do with eating potatoes?

You haven’t read anything that contradicts it.

Other than the IPCC and ICJ and basically the entire world and even members of the Biden admin so disgusted by whats going on that they resigned in protest, sure!

When would they have previously seen social media from intense urban warfare? Soldiers in the second Iraq war didn’t have phones.

But simply being shocked by the reality of warfare is not evidence of war crimes. It’s evidence that war is shocking.

We all know the best way to get your hostages back is to blow up buildings they might be in with a fucking tank cannon at point blank, because the hannibal doctrine of killing hostages that are too difficult to extract is more expedient

That’s not an IDF doctrine, though. The Hannibal doctrine is merely to prevent, if possible, the enemies of Israel from taking hostages. How does that differ from any other nation? The US doesn’t allow hostage-taking, either. Neither do they where you live.

Everyone_ other than Israel themselves has been claiming and reporting on Israel is _saying_ they are allowing food in when they _actually are not._

No they haven’t. How can it be a lie? Everyone can see the food going in, the warehouses filling up, the chow lines distributing it to Gazans.

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When certain groups of people actually do, repeatedly act in certain ways more often than others do

But they don’t, and in any case that’s not “psychology.” That’s just you being a bigoted fucking asshole.

when its so commonplace to them that other people have to point out that they are behaving that way because they do not even realize it

Isn’t that literally the described experience of being autistic? Having your behavior pointed out to you and you didn’t even realize you were doing it? Constantly?

How about the people that actually do that regularly?

Is that something you think is true about neurotypical people? That we’re constantly “assaulting and murdering”?

How is this not you just being a giant gaping asshole? You can wrap it up in therapy terms if you want but surely you have to see how offensive this is?

The source is well-known history. Open any book on the topic: British Mandate wasn’t just given to the Jews. The State of Israel was created for the Jews, and the Kingdom of Transjordan (now Jordan) was created for the Arabs. When they say “river to the sea” what river did you think they meant?

Jordan is the nation that Palestinians already have. They don’t want another one; they want the Jews to not have one at all.

Hummus is not particularly unique to Israel.

Potatoes aren’t even native to Ireland.