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Thank you for criticizing Hamas as that position never seems to be considered among the anti-Israel crowd.

Despite some of your legitimate criticisms of Israel during this war, I wonder if you would concede none of these war crimes would be taking place if Hamas didn't attack Israel on October 7th.

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October 7 is the catalyst for the current round of violence. Previous rounds of violence are the catalyst for October 7.

Both sides have down the wind of war, and are now reaping the whirlwind of perpetual war.

https://blog.petersproverbs.us/p/we-have-sown-the-wind-now-we-shall

There will be no peace in Israel until both the Palestinian Arabs and the Israelis come together in mercy and forgiveness to seek peace.

It is simply no longer meaningful debating who drew first blood.

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I’ve said it before, Mr. Kust - you would have made a great jurist!

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High praise indeed! Thank you.

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People like you would insist the Warsaw Ghetto rebels be prosecuted for war crimes if they ambushed Nazis.

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Ad hominems are never an argument.

Ad hominems involving historically illiterate analogies are merely insipid--and in this instance arguably anti-Semitic--virtue signaling.

There is zero comparison to be made between the terrorists of Hamas and the Polish Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during WW2.

The Polish Jews never targeted innocent women and children. Hamas prefers targeting innocent women and children.

The Polish Jews did not make non-combatants into human shields. Hamas routinely hides behind the skirts of Palestinian Arab women

Moreover, had you taken the care to actually read the article, you would have known that the bulk of Hamas' war crimes are against the Palestinian Arabs, not the Israelis. Hamas is a far greater threat to the Palestinian Arabs than the IDF has ever been.

You stand corrected.

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They are very comparable both Nazi Germany and Zionist Israel are expansionist ethnonationalist states who held and currently hold people they consider to be inferior in open air concentration camps. I just corrected your excuses for gross violations of international law, you’re welcome. Welcome to my block list!

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Your ignorance is pathetic.

Israel has a 21% Arab population, which is represented in the Knesset, who have the same legal rights and standing as Jews, and members of which serve with distinction in the IDF.

These indisputable facts are incompatible with ethnonationalism, and stand in stark contrast to the Nuremberg Laws, by which the Third Reich stripped German Jews of their citizenship and legal rights.

To assert that Israel is ethnonationalist is simply an argument from ignorance and from hatred. It is rejected.

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Truth is the first casualty of war..

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