• echoplex21@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly people should watch Born in Gaza. You can see what how their lives have been affected by the constant conflicts throughout their lives.

    I’m not advocating for terrorism at all and that should be clear. But you can clearly see why many of these kids are so prone to being radicalized. Unnamed aggressors with no face bombing constantly whether it be farmland or ambulances or what have you. Hamas absolutely should be stopped but there needs to be a different approach. This cycle will just keep producing more and more fighters for them as they believe they are the resistance.

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          1 year ago

          Thousands of children are dying at the hands of an oppressive apartheid regime that is being promulgated by ethno-supremacist religious zealots who are using religious zealots in an opposing faction to justify their atrocities. That’s how it’s going.

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            1 year ago

            And what’s worse is when you’re watching , there’s nothing related to religion. There’s just death, poverty, and lack of hope at the forefront. These kids need help so so bad and the international community is throwing a blind eye towards it.

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      This cycle will just keep producing more and more fighters for them as they believe they are the resistance.

      This sentence has been repeated after every flare up there since 1948. Nobody there learns because nobody there wants to. Having a constant enemy is very useful for those in power on both sides.

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        1 year ago

        Not to forget that Likud is a far right party, that needs constant fear and an enemy to continue to thrive, and they have that in the face of Hamas.

        Also quite interesting to note is that Israelian settlers can also be quite violent and radicalized, but almost no one is talking about them or about their unprovoked act of aggression.

        So when fighting terrorism Israel should not apply double standards and treat all violence no matter the origin equally.

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      1 year ago

      What’s got me particularly worried this time around is that the Israeli response is going to make the radicalization problem so much worse than it was before… unless Israel intends to complete the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Netanyahu is undeniably evil, but I don’t think he’s stupid, so he must know this too, which can really only mean one thing – but nobody in power in the West seems to be willing to acknowledge that, let alone step in to stop it.