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  • Quesadilla, especially of your have a glass top oven, you just slap that tortilla straight on the element and flip it a few times before adding cheese and folding it. 5 min, no mess.

  • Imagine you walked into the camps and saw the smattering of walking skeletons that were left from the multiple thousands of people who had preceded them into the gas chambers or ovens.

    I think it's hard to really imagine what level of trauma that would cause, and how shocking it would be to see those images.

    I think that is the foundation of a powerful bond between the West and Israel, and it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

    I find it extremely troubling that Netanyahu and his cronies have said that the only solution to the issues they are having is to exterminate all Palestinians (assuming that quote is accurate) and I do think that their actions are horrifying and deserve criticism, but that's the government. I have no issue with the people of Israel. I believe that in part these actions are Bibi covering his own ass for not stopping nor even anticipating a massive attack from a known enemy. I understand his desire to root out Hamas, but there has to be a way to do so with more accuracy and less civilian misery and death.

  • The Israeli government is straight up evil, maybe.

    The Israeli people have been targets of precise statements from multiple neighbors over the years telling them they would be exterminated as soon as the opportunity arose.

    Put yourself in that position and tell me you wouldn't support a right wing militant government that ran on a platform of hard borders and strong military.

    How many wars of aggression have been waged against Israel since its founding? How many terrorist attacks? If the nations surrounding them put down their weapons and accepted them, there would be peace in the region. If the Israelis put down their weapons they would be murdered en masse.

    How would you like a populace that came within a hair's breadth of systematic extermination to react when they move to an area and are immediately painted as liars by neighbors who are Holocaust deniers and express the desire to finish the job?

    Also if your argument is strong enough there's no need to add that last part. It makes you seem weak and devalues any merit in your words, of which there is plenty. Nobody wants to see people getting hurt, but to fail to differentiate between the Israeli government and the Israeli people, and to ignore the situation they are in and the precursor to the establishment of the state of Israel, is a mistake.

  • I'm definitely guilty of reductionism and offending people with my views. I don't hold tightly to them, overall. I don't like the indiscriminate murder of the innocent, but I also think that comparing this recent exchange of pleasantries between Israel and Hamas to Nazi Germany is offensive in and of itself.

    Of course, the rhetoric that both sides of this filthy conflict use serves to display the deep hatred that exists ay the core of it.

  • A craven terrorist attack caused a military response that has claimed 11,000 lives to date, with a substantial proportion of those lives being women and children. This is a horrible thing. Hamas and the Israeli government can both go fuck themselves for the misery they have caused.

    That said, AFAIK nobody is sending Israeli troops in to round up Palestinians and systematically incinerate them until all Palestinians are dead.

    6,000,000 Jews suffered that fate.

    The bombing of Dresden took 25,000 German lives. Nobody called that an attempted genocide.

    Perspective is important.