Muslim women are attacked in the street their scarfs
ripped off. They end up in hospital. Fundamentalists
exist on both sides. Luckily most people are not
fundamentalists. Taking sides in this conflict is
inevitable. However what should be avoided is violence.

We need to condemn any kind of violence and try not to
encourage division, and fear and see to it that never
again should any abused people become the abusers.
Which ever side they may be on.

Making excuses for any kind of violence is not good enough.
Violence should not be tolerated either from Muslims of Jews.

Hi AC,

The IDF strapped explosives around an extra year old's neck? That sounds a little fanciful. Do you think it's true?

Hi Foxy,

Exactly, it is all about hatred and why it's never acceptable. Bazz might switch Judaism for Islam in his comments and have a think.

Yesterday Hamas returned the bodies of two children their brave martyrs had kidnapped a coupla years ago. Brave? Well it takes real courage to grab a 4 month old and whisk him back to your base!

As the tiny coffins were paraded through the streets, the baying mobs cheered while a cartoon version of a Jew made to look like a vampire looked on.

Also returned was the body of the baby's mother, likewise bravely adducted by the martyrs of Islam. Cheers likewise ensued at the death of another hated Jew.

One more coffin was also cheered over - that of an 83 yr old man, clearly a threat to the glory of Allah. In his retirement, this man had devoted himself to driving sick Gazans across the border so they could be treated in Israeli hospitals. Some of those he ferried used the opportunity to gather information that facilitated the 7/10 attacks.

The whole thing was so disgusting that even the Jew-hating UN was moved to tut-tut. When that happens, you just know it was truly abhorrent.

"What we saw today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah, and a sin that does not represent the followers of the Prophet, peace be upon him, or the honourable religion of Islam. The path of Islam includes respect even for non-Muslim dead. Today, the Hamas movement has stepped outside the definition of Islam."
Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti

Quick all you members of the Hamas cheer-squad, look the other way.

Hi Fester,

"The IDF strapped explosives around an extra year old's neck? That sounds a little fanciful. Do you think it's true?"

- Well I wasn't there so I can't say for sure, but I have seen a couple of images where they used Palestinians as human shields.
Strapped on the bonnets of Humvees as the IDF entered neighbourhoods in Gaza.
Given all the other things I've seen, I wouldn't doubt it
too much.

http://youtube.com/shorts/JNa2m1CsHIU

I honestly think there should be a Palestinian Genocide Museum, where all of the photos and videos of all the atrocities including all the things IDF have documented themselves are shown.

Instead of me being criticised for pointing out the wrongdoing, it would be better to let these things speak for themselves.

A lot of things I've seen are really horrible and gruesome, but often the worst things were removed from X.com after a day or so.

Remember early in the conflict when mhaze was arguing Israel didn't target the Al-Shifa hospital, well in the end, Israel targeted all the hospitals and left barely anything standing.

So many times I saw Israel not just target journalists (some 200 assassinated) but do so by targetting them and home and killing their entire families.
There was no respect for human life whatsoever, moreso a wilful determination to extinguish it, made more easily by dehumanising them.
Which Israeli leaders themselves have done for decades.
I didn't respond to your comment re Golda Meir the other day because I couldn't find a video I was looking for where she was saying her aim was to make life miserable and unliveable in a manner that no Palestinian would wish to stay. I found some other ones though.

http://x.com/QudsNen/status/1698631096576159985
http://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1697526412494749994
http://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1697715753816932438
http://x.com/simpatico771/status/1720218750669013037

If anyone says that I'm just using this war as cover for my existing antisemitism, (Rhian) that's because I've saw the atrocities happening long before Oct 7, but that said he's right in that the Israeli / Palestinian conflict is not my only reason for criticism.

You'd think that by what the world has witnessed
in both the past and the present - people would
no longer take sides in conflicts but do what they
can to prevent the violence for the sake of justice
and humanity.

Many try to do just that. But it's clear that not enough
do.

AC wrote: "Remember early in the conflict when mhaze was arguing Israel didn't target the Al-Shifa hospital"

That's straight up false. I really don't know if you've just got a bad memory, have a problem with comprehension or just enjoy making things up to suit your fantasy world.

For the record, what I said was that the bomb that dropped on the Al-Shifa hospital allegedly killing (think of a number and double it) people, was NOT an Israeli bomb. It turned out that I was right - it was a misfired Hamas rocket. Since you were PROVEN wrong, you've now decided to reimagine what was said.

Further, I never said Israel doesn't target hospitals. Quite the opposite, I've said that they do and should target them because Hamas/ UNWRA use the hospitals as shields for their warriors. This, of course, is a war crime which the Hamas cheer-squad chose to ignore