They're already defending the self defense mass arrests with no charges, the self defense tear gassing of people praying in mosques, the self defense punishing Palestinians for killing a lunatic who killed 20 of them while they were praying, and many other products of self defense™.
I haven't even gotten to the acts that are getting excused by the 7th of October attack. So yes; I wouldn't be surprised if I woke up tomorrow and found the self defense rapes looking me in the face.
The whataboutism is valid, because most of the "anti Hamas" crowd would excuse these acts as self defense if they were done by the other Terrorist organization.
At 0:16 he says "وَدّعْ" sounds like "wad-di' " it means "say goodbye". The hostages haven't even entered the vehicle yet, and the militant helping them to get in starts waving. I slowed it down to 0.5, but I still cannot hear what's said at 0:17.
Here's one, I have boosted some of those posts as a way of saving them, but it seems that at least one was removed.
I have found videos of IDF personnel humiliating blind folded prisoners, and others of prisoners in the West bank being released some blind folded and most with tags on their ankles.
I will try to post the links when I find them later.
This article is pretty shit; clearly biased and doesn't provide any evidence.
The video shows Hamas members saying "bye bye" repeatedly while waving, and there's no evidence for what the article claims. So you're expected to take the word of the publishers for it. The website has the Israeli rag in it's logo. It's up to you to decide if you do or do not blindly trust it.
Keep in mind that the hostages Hamas releases are consistently shown to be in good condition, while Palestinian prisoners who have been imprisoned for no reason (practically hostages) are more often than not subject to torture. One group is acting as a terrorist organization would, and thinks it's "gross" to show how much better the actual terrorist organization is.
The thousands killed and all of the destruction caused will ensure that Gazans will never accept peace. The raids, displacement and murders that were committed in the West bank while the world was distracted by Gaza, will ensure that the Palestinians of the West bank won't be very happy with their government that wants peace with the oppressors.
There you go, peace is harder to achieve. Victory.
suprise raid in which civilians and children were the only targets and people were raped abducted and tortured.
The stupid lie that civilians were the primary target is still a lie, and is still stupid. Hamas has taken videos of it's members destroying tanks and other armored units, and stealing some of them during the raid. Before the raid Hamas got Gazans who were willing to fight to go with them too, and those radicals most likely are the ones who targeted civilians, Hamas militants may have targeted civilians too, but civilians weren't the primary target.
Still, I see a difference in a military bombardement, where civilians were warned to leave the area beforehand and a suprise raid in which civilians and children were the only targets and people were raped abducted and tortured.
So you think that this one raid is worst than the many that are carried out routinely against Palestinians? Or are we gonna just ignore those for now?
The difference is that the IDF can do these stupid things to save face, while Hamas cannot. The difference between typical terrorist groups and the IDF/whole "Israeli" government has always been their capabilities.
The intention is the same, the justification is different. You'd need to be blind to not see that.
It's not like they weren't murdering people on the ground before the raid took place. They are still doing it right now, but you'd rather not acknowledge that.
If they actually wanted it to be destroyed they'd have just not intervened. With Hafez as president of Syria and Gamal as president of Egypt, it would have been turned into a bridge between the two states of the UAR along with Lebanon.
They're already defending the self defense mass arrests with no charges, the self defense tear gassing of people praying in mosques, the self defense punishing Palestinians for killing a lunatic who killed 20 of them while they were praying, and many other products of self defense™.
I haven't even gotten to the acts that are getting excused by the 7th of October attack. So yes; I wouldn't be surprised if I woke up tomorrow and found the self defense rapes looking me in the face.