The lies are in quotes. Truth follows.
“Israel is committing genocide and ethnic cleansing”. — Baby beheading defenders
This is a farcical, absurd claim.
Genocide and ethnic cleansing mean either (1) an ethnic group’s numbers go down by large percentages, and/or (2) the area of land the ethnic group inhabits is lowered by offensive conquest from an aggressor.
Neither of these conditions even remotely fits how Israel responds to constant aggression from extremist Muslim Arabs.
The populations of Gaza and the West Bank are going up, and a few thousand dying in Gaza out of a population of two million Gazans is hardly going to put a dent in that. The population of Muslim Arab Israeli citizens is going up faster than the population of Jewish Israeli citizens, and those Muslim Arab Israeli citizens want nothing to do with their extremist brethren in Gaza and the West Bank.
(In fact, Egyptians, Jordanians, and Lebanese want nothing to do with extremist Muslim Arab Palestinians either, which is why Egypt refuses to take control over Gaza like it had pre-1967 and like Israel has offered to Egypt more recently, and why Jordan refuses to take control over West Bank either, and why Lebanese keep Palestinians in refugee/prison camps.)
Furthermore, Israel does not want more Palestinian land. Israel dismantled its Gaza settlements in 2005 and withdrew ground forces in a gesture of goodwill. And when it comes to the West Bank, “In every round of talks with the Palestinians, Israel has acknowledged that many settlements [such as those within the wall around the West Bank] will be dismantled under a future agreement”.
Literally nothing Israel is doing matches any part of the definitions of genocide or ethnic cleansing. Those accusations are absurd lies.
However, does anyone doubt that extremist Palestinians would completely destroy the nation of Israel if they could? Clearly they have genocidal intent.
“Israel intends to drive Palestinians out.” — Baby baking defenders
As already noted, it is absurd to claim that Israel is trying to take more Palestinian land after Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005 and has repeatedly offered for decades to give up over 90% of the West Bank.
So, if Palestinians agree to turn over the 10% of the West Bank that is outside the wall that Israel has built around the West Bank, Israel will definitely agree to that since Israel has proposed this deal multiple times in the past.
How can Israel be intending to drive Palestinians completely out when Israel withdrew ground forces from Gaza in 2005 and Israel built a wall around the West Bank? Makes no sense.
“Israel is ‘indiscriminately’ killing civilians”. — Baby beheading defenders
Israel’s military is so humanitarian that it has invented new ways to try to avoid civilian casualties, like roof knocking. Can baby beheading defenders point to even just one tactic that extremist Muslim Arabs have created to try to avoid civilian Jewish casualties? No, they cannot, because extremist Muslim Arabs deliberately target enemy civilians and deliberately use their own civilians as human shields.
On the other hand, extremist Muslim Arabs have been deliberately targeting civilians for decades with suicide bombs in cafes, indiscriminate rocket attacks into Israel, and most recently murder teams sent into Israel to bake and behead babies and lock civilians into rooms with grenades.
Hamas constantly lies, especially about civilian deaths, as Western media had to re-learn after being so willing to believe what the babykillers claimed about Israel supposedly targeting a hospital in October 2023 only to learn that it was a Hamas rocket that malfunctioned and hit the hospital parking lot.
Critics of Israel are not able to describe how Israel can wage legitimate defensive war against Hamas in a more humanitarian fashion. Because no one in human history done a better job innovating new ways to avoid civilian casualties in war than Israel has.
Israel’s commitment to wage war in as humanitarian a way as possible goes all the way back to 1948 when extremist Muslim Arabs started a war and attacked first. In that war, 2,400 out of roughly 6,400 Jews whom extremist Muslim Arabs killed were Jewish civilians (about 37%). On the other hand, out of the at least 6,700 Muslim Arabs whom Israel killed in 1948, only about 800 were Muslim Arab civilians. (Morris, around page 405)
In other words, in 1948 Jews killed Arab civilians at one third the rate that extremist Muslim Arabs killed Jewish civilians.
And it’s been the same ever since.
“Palestinians lack a state or a government”. — Baby beheading supporters
It is frankly very weird how apologists for the baby murderers of Hamas seem to think that a government/state does not exist unless Israel recognizes it. On the contrary, no matter how much Israel does not formally recognize a Palestinian state/government with an exchange of ambassadors, the Palestinians do in reality on the ground de facto have an organization that fits the definition of state/government.
As mentioned before, Israel dismantled its Gaza settlements in 2005 and pulled out its ground forces. Hamas has had a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force in Gaza since then.
On the other hand, it is true that Israel has divided the West Bank into multiple enclaves and made it difficult for Palestinians to travel between those enclaves, as recorded by this B’Tselem Jewish Israeli organization that protests Israel’s actions in the West Bank. On the other hand, those Palestinian enclaves are still bigger than than the multiple enclaves on the Belgium-Netherlands border that they maintain with each other in peace.
Within each one of its West Bank enclaves, Palestinians under Fatah have just as much monopoly on the use of legitimate force as Belgium-Netherlands do within their city enclaves.
“Gazans suffer water, energy and food shortages.” — Baby baking supporters
Hamas has chosen to construct tunnels and rockets rather than to construct water, energy, or food systems. In fact, whenever Hamas receives aid shipments of infrastructure to build water, energy, or food systems, Hamas does its best to repurpose those into weapons like rockets!
In 2005 when Israel dismantled its Gaza settlements and withdrew ground forces in a gesture of goodwill, Gazans destroyed the ginormous export-scale greenhouses that Israel left behind. Rather than reciprocate Israel’s goodwill gesture withdrawing from Gaza in 2005, Hamas did the opposite. Hamas ramped up attacks. It is only right and just that Israel ramped up its blockade of Gaza in response.
What if Hamas were to devote its resources to building water systems instead of to building tunnels and rockets? What if Hamas were to stop destroying its own water, energy & food systems in order to turn them into weapons? Not only would Hamas be doing its job right, but Israel would lift the blockade, and Hamas could make Gaza as prosperous as Malta (to take a relevant example, because the Maltese language is a descendent from Arabic).
a generative AI-produced image describing how Gaza could look like Singapore
The degree to which Gazans lack water, energy and food is the degree to which Gaza’s leaders have chosen to prioritize attacking Israel with rockets and tunnels rather than prioritize the wellbeing of the people of Gaza. Israel is not responsible for the poor choices of Gaza’s leaders.
Already, the only water and energy Gaza gets, Israel provides free of charge. True, it is not much, but apparently Hamas has higher priorities like beheading Jewish babies.
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