And, once again, I need to remind you that no matter what you post or what you believe - nothing is going to change the very simple fact that most people on this planet are going to associate Israel with one of the most horrendous mass-murders in history. You can't shake death my friend. It's going to stick to the Jewish population like fucking super-glue.
Young impressionable people. People with a Islamic religious bias. And the easily emotionally manipulated. They might.
Those who know history recognise this doesn't even figure in the top 10. And that the use of the term genocide in this context is a betrayal of all those who have actually been the subject of genocide and largely ignored by the world at large. Israel goes out of its way to warn people to get out of the way. Genocides don't typically involve being given a chance to avoid being killed by the oppressing faction, they just roll in and kill you without batting an eyelid.
If anything this whole saga is going to devalue and demoralize people in the west in regards to Islam as a whole. The cracks are beginning to show, and if it weren't for political correctness and the threat of a criminal record for hate speech I imagine a
lot of the public in the West would be quite vocal on the subject. People are silently fed up with the bullshit already - it has already been mentioned in this thread as to some of the reasons why, specifically in relation to my region (UK).
The irony is of course that the initial spark, the October incursion, was actually an act of genocide. 1000+ innocent people slaughtered in the most barbaric ways, for no military objective, on the basis of some phony religious-political bullshit. That's what I'll remember from this whole saga. And the hospital "air strike", which turned out to be complete bullshit but was promoted by Hamas and then floated by the MSM.
Most sane people will equate Israel = genocide. Or maybe you can explain how they won't? Give me some plausible reason why someone might say "Hey, sure, they wiped out a ton of civilians and left them all homeless and starving for years - but it was all justified in the end. Just look at how good things are now!"
Most sane people recognise that Hamas is directly responsible for initiating this recent chain of events, by butchering 1000+ people and taking hostages.
They have taken obscene donation money from all over the world, and what have they done with it? Built a web of tunnels and a shit ton of crappy rockets designed to inflict terror and injury of innocent people. They could have spent all that money on actually doing something productive and beneficial for Gaza as a whole. But no.
Most sane people are also sick to the back teeth of 'the boy crying wolf', especially when these people turn around and inflict absolute barbarity on innocent people who don't fall under
their umbrella. Both in that region and elsewhere around the world. I have sympathy for people who are being oppressed, but not when they can't turn the other cheek and instead willingly choose to perpetuate a cycle of violence under the guide of their religious beliefs. You give these people half a chance and
they'll become the oppressors, because hate is what motivates them, not love.
The proof is in the pudding. Look at what Israel has become, on the back of desert swamp land and not much else. In turn, look at the Arab states.. without all their oil they would have
nothing. And even the states that are oil rich they still are evolving at a snails pace by comparison. It's embarrassing. These people and states could do
so much if they channelled all their energy in the right direction, it's not even funny. They are motivated well but directed poorly. It's a tragedy.
