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Setting aside the sweeping generalizations and ethnocentric assumptions, I do agree with this point: projecting Western values onto Arab or Palestinian societies often leads to misunderstandings.

That’s your specialty, not engaging with arguments directly, but swapping in accusations of antisemitism where you’d normally say ‘arrogant,’ or Hamas sympathy where you’d say ‘ignorant.’ Then you pull the surprise-Pikachu face when the same tactic gets turned back on you. Instead of defending...

Ok then you can drop the bullshit. I’ve said more than once that Israel is making efforts to avoid unnecessary civilian suffering. The harmful rhetoric comes from you, when you marginalize Palestinians and act as if they’re a single monolithic group that all voted for and supported Hamas. At...

You’ve misunderstood from the start. I’ve been clear that Hamas needs to go. What I tried to do was discuss how Israel and the Palestinians ended up in this situation, but you twisted that into antisemitic rants, mistaking history for hatred of Israel. From there, it’s been one baseless attack...

I can’t speak for ‘many on the left,’ and I’m not part of ‘the left.’ What I can speak to is my own experience discussing this issue with you. I don’t have much time to hand out praise to Israel, because most of my posting time is spent defending myself from your baseless claims. As for whether...

You’re shifting the goalposts. I’ve never denied that Israel is at war, or that Hamas bears responsibility for using civilians as shields. My point is that dismissing or mocking concern for civilian lives doesn’t help Israel, it fuels Hamas propaganda. Israel itself acknowledges civilian deaths...

You’re right that by for-profit standards it’s not odd at all, it’s exactly what you’d expect when chasing money above everything else. But it is odd from a civic or ethical standpoint, where you’d hope institutions shaping public opinion would show at least some consistency or responsibility...

A punctuation mark can make the world of difference: Great Britain’s Queen is dead. Great! Britain’s Queen is dead.

Acknowledging the suffering of Palestinian civilians does not equal siding with Hamas. It simply means recognizing that innocent lives are being lost. Hamas bears responsibility for putting civilians in harm’s way, and Israel bears responsibility for how it conducts its operations. Both...

I'd like to add that recognizing the loss of civilian lives does not mean supporting that side. It also doesn’t absolve anyone. One party puts civilians in harm’s way, while the other tries to avoid civilian casualties but cannot prevent them entirely. Acknowledging that innocent people died...

When you empty your vacuum cleaner, you become the vacuum cleaner.

You and O’Shea Jackson Sr. have something in common.

So you’re denying that Hamas benefits when concern for Palestinian civilians is dismissed, or worse, treated with hostility? Yes, Hamas uses civilians as shields. Yes, Hamas bears responsibility for many of those deaths. But to suggest that only Hamas supporters would care about those civilians...

Correct, and I’ve never said otherwise. You keep inventing things about me that I’ve never claimed. What is that makes you spin these fantasies?

Israel holds itself responsible for civilian deaths. What are you even talking about?

If the school itself had been the target, arson or vandalism might have made sense. But that wasn’t the case, the shooter wasn’t attacking a building, they were attacking the people inside. Even if someone had an issue with the institution, the act was indiscriminate: the students and staff are...

For the bolded part, could you at least consult your crystal ball and show us a screenshot of the ‘evidence’? Every time, your pulled-from-thin-air opinions derail the conversation away from actual data and into your unfounded premonitions and feel-good guesses the discussion goes nowhere.

Funny thing, Loren, if you actually read Hamas’ own strategy, they want people like you. They rely on defenders of Israel to label every critic as Hamas-aligned, because it proves their point to Palestinians that the world won’t ever care about their civilians. Every time you erase civilian...

Welp, you better hope someone’s alive and willing to collect, because if a corporation/person deliberately sells a product that costs you your life, they’ll just keep rolling along. And if the settlements end up being smaller than the profits (which they usually are, since costs just get passed...