It seems that there are a lot of Israelis that believe that there are no innocents in Gaza. And one could argue that it’s possible that a significant majority of the population is hateful towards Israelis, considering the history.

If you agree with this argument, can you please explain why and elaborate? And if you don’t, how would you refute it? There is no data that shows that there isn’t a significant majority that’s hateful towards the Israelis.

DISCLAIMER: I’m not stating my opinion as I want to hear an unbiased opinion from you.

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    They are brainwashed supporters of genocide. I read about a guy who left to get his 2 newborn twins registered at the hospital and they got killed along with his wife while he was away.

    “No innocents.”? Fuck you. I wouldn’t wish this misery on my absolute most hated enemy.

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        everyone is listening to their own narrative. my israeli friends honestly think that muslims are trying to kill them, because some king in the old testament disobeyed god

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    19 days ago

    That is usually how a genocide is justified to the public. Every member of the ‘undesireabe’ group is guilty of being an undesirable, and can thus be justifyably murdered.

    Examples:

    All Jewish people are guilty of some conspiracy and/or killing Jesus

    All Muslim people are guilty of replacing white christians and/or terrorism

    All LGBTQ people are guilty of grooming kids

    All Palestinians are guilty of ‘occupying’ Israeli land.

    etc.

    Every example of this is a tool of propaganda to get the public to go along with unfair treatment up to and including genocide. The fact that they’re all easily refuted doesn’t matter. It goes hand in hand with the view that the group aren’t fully people.

    This reasoning is never ok, no matter what group of people it’s used against this time. When you recognize it, call it out for the sham it is.

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    17 days ago

    If there are no innocent ones, how can anyone be a judge of someone else

    Let the sinless one throw the first stove

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    A core principle of modern (western) legal states is that it’s preferable to let 10 guilty people walk free before wrongfully punishing one innocent. I’m aware that we often don’t manage to live up to that, but it is the ideal.

    That’s why guilt of the individual (!) has to be proven beyond reasonable doubt, it’s why certain evidence may become inadmissible if it’s been acquired illegally, it’s why suspect’s may walk free due to formal errors. We try to make absolutely sure that cutting corners doesn’t lead to wrong conclusions, even if it means that we sometimes have to let criminals go unpunished.

    Following that same principle, “it’s possible that there’s a significant majority” isn’t enough. Where’s the proof that there’s not a single inhabitant of Gaza who doesn’t support Hamas?

    Also, since when is it a crime punishable by lifelong imprisonment or death to be hateful of someone?

    And if you and your entire people were held in an open air prison for as long as you could think back, would you not grow hateful of your jailers?

    Last but not least: The logic that “there are no innocents [on the other side of the fence]” applied by Hamas towards the Israelis led to October 7th. If it was flawed then, how is it not flawed now?

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    Hard no.

    The idea that your can judge an entire group of people to be innocent or not is heavily flawed. Even if any groups cultural influence was hypothetically incredibly evil, do people deserve death for being influenced by their surroundings? How do we gauge who has true evil in their heart, and who was harbouring doubts but couldn’t say anything? We literally can’t, and that kind of thinking shouldn’t be used to decide judgement of a person, let alone who lives and who dies. In practical terms things get muddier sure, but we’re way past that point.

    At this point I feel like the conclusion of violence is made first, then the justification coming afterwards.

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    Those who say there are innocent seem to lack empathy.

    What is a child guilty of in the conflict? There are always non combatants who are stuck in this wanting no part on either side.

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      You missed a word in there.

      I don’t think it’s lack of empaty, or rather, it’s not just lack of empaty, I think it’s more an active lumping together of people and ancestry.

      So much so Zionist, and Nazi, are into their own a-priori “positive” quality, coherently, absurdly so, Palestinian children have a-priori negative qualities.

      I feel sick just typing this because I would think this is very very very clearly idiotic. But it seems to take hold of plenty of people’s worldview.

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    I don’t care if someone says that there are no innocent Israelis or no innocent Gazans. It’s despicable either way, and if it’s coming from a person of faith - Jewish, Muslim, or Christian, then they are directly violating the will of God. (Gen 18:17 ff)

    If they are a Kahanist or Hamas supporter, then they are in favor of literal terrorism.

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    It’s probably true for some definition of innocent except for small children and babies. The problem is that people making this argument don’t do so honestly otherwise they’d have to apply it to themselves and their own group as well. If nobody is innocent, it doesn’t make sense to use it as a discriminator.

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    Children are not born with hatred in their heart.

    And as others have pointed out, hatred =/= not innocent. Nobody deserves to die just for hating someone. Even if you could justify killing someone just cause they allegedly hate you, I have a very very difficult time believing that all Palestinians hate Israelis and vice versa. Again, people are not born with hatred in their heart and the actions of a government don’t always reflect the feelings of their citizens.

    Also just being pedantic about your disclaimer: opinions are biased. You can’t ask for an unbiased opinion. You can make an unbiased (to an extent) statement, but not an opinion.

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      Its like with Nazi germany. Sure not literally ALL germans supported hitler but they also just didnt do enough to stop him. When your children are killed by people with israeli flags, its hard not to hate the whole country.

      That doesnt make them guilty of anything other than hatred however. The amount of people in gaza actively involved in killing israeli civilians is close to zero. Killing soldiers occupying your land is not great but arguably not morally bad.

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        There were literally thousands of Hamas fighters who entered Israel by land, sea, and air on Oct 7, 2023. They captured and held territory, killed 1200 people, kidnapped hundreds more, and committed war crimes. Hamas claims that they have/had 10s of thousands more fighters. The scale of these numbers is undisputed.

        How is that “close to zero?”

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          They killed ~800 civilians according to Israel, but Israel has refused any independent investigation into these numbers and their causes of death. Likely the number was much lower and a lot were killed by Israel fire in the confusion or under hannibal directive.

          The number of Hamas fighters that actually had civilian blood on their hands was at the time of the attack surely not in the thousands, because how can multiple people kill a single person.

          After 16 months of bombing, arrests and starvation the number of hamas fighters alive that have actually killed any Israeli civilians is bound to have dwindled to a fraction of the initial number. All that is left are military forces engaged in war with other military forces.

          All the while tens of thousands probably more than 100k univolved gazans have been killed by bombing, gunfire or starvation.

          In terms of hatred im sure most gazans would be happy if Israel crumbled, but people are to be judged for actions not thoughts.

          A whole different topic of discussion is whether settlers occupying and partying on internationally disputed territory should be considered civilians.

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            A whole different topic of discussion is whether settlers occupying and partying on internationally disputed territory should be considered civilians.

            That answers your opinion the “no innocent Israelis” question.

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          Thousands compared to a population of over a million is very negligible. Even if every single one of them actively targeted civilians. ‘A negligibly small percentage’ is sometimes colloquially referred to as ‘practically zero’.

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            It’s about 1.4%

            Israel lists about 160000 active duty IDF. That’s about 1.6% - practically zero according to you?

            USA active duty is about 0.6%

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    It is most definitely used the other way around.

    Personally I disagree with it. Hamas, however needs to be held accountable to October 7th.

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      19 days ago

      And the IDF needs to be held accountable for their war crimes. Thing is, they’re not targeting Hamas, they’re targeting innocent bystanders.

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        And Hamas admit using Gaza’s civilians as human shields and have done going back around 20 years.

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            “decided to turn that which is most dear to us — the bodies of our women and children — into a dam blocking the collapse in Arab reality.” Yahya Sinwa, 2016

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              He very obviously doesn’t mean taking them as human shields (which, by the way, Israel has never been able to provide evidence for).

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                  The kids bedroom one looks legit, and if so is really fucked up, fair enough. However, Al-Shifa hospital is and has always been bogus. This is where they found a “Hamas guard shift list” that turned out to be calendar, if you remember that. More generally,

                  Even Al Jazeera admits that there were terror tunnels inside residential buildings.

                  That’s fair. However, if that’s your definition of human shields then… Okay? I’m not sure where else you expect them to put tunnel entrances. It remains a fact that claims by Israel of Hamas using civilian infrastructure for military uses (putting a door somewhere isn’t a military use) in a way that makes them valid military targets are almost all (not all, as the kids bedroom example shows) false.

                  In November 2024 the UN reported that in most instances Israel does not provide substantial evidence for its human shields allegations in Gaza nor could they independently verify these allegations.

                  -Wikipedia.

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    Ask those people if there are any innocents in Israel. All of that society contributed to a genocide. We could ask the same thingabout the US. I didn’t get thrown in jail from repeated protesting, so I’m just as much to blame.