Tin hat time!😁😣
The Israel/Gaza conflict is such a complex situation but the problem will never stand the remotest chance of being resolved until people stop taking just partisan sides and refuse to even consider an opposing narrative. Is it really that difficult to try and see beyond the black/white rhetoric to the grey areas?

I am not denying that the current attacks on Gaza by Israel are entirely driven by the heinous attack by Hamas on themselves, nor do I support the actions of Hamas in any way. All I am saying, is that there is a bigger picture here and surely it is worth asking why Hamas and it's hateful ideology has been able to flourish in the first place.

There is surely no argument that Hamas is a terrorist organization, has committed atrocities against Israeli and is funded by a hateful Islamic extremist ideology. But -quite aside from the fact that Hamas does not represent all Palestinians -does that mean that Israel has never behaved badly towards the Palestinian population over many years? Do people really believe that Zionist expansionism (look at a map of Israel in 1948 and compare it with one now) all happened peacefully without discrimination and the forceful dispossession of Palestinian land and property?

I take the point of the video clip posted by Soulman, and I have no doubt that many "pro-Palestinians" are quite ignorant of some of the complexities of the situation. I can by no means claim to be an expert myself, but have at least taken the opportunity to try and learn more about what is happening and why. Amnesty International, for example, clearly see Israeli policies over the years as being nothing short of apartheid. Or is AI just full of left wing wokie liberals that can be happily ignored too alongside the UN, EHRC or WHO?

I don't doubt that there have been many instances -and are still- where Jews and Arabs have, and can, live happily side by side in Israel -but this is only part of the story. Currently, Israel has perhaps it's most right wing government in its history and they are talking openly of unleashing a "second Nakba" on Palestinians.

Always fragile agreements, the Oslo accords at least offered a brief period of hope but those days seem very far away now, mostly thanks to extremists on both sides. Not all Palestinians support Hamas and not all Israeli Jews support further Zionist expansionism but it will always be the innocent who just want to get on and live their lives in peace who will suffer.