08/11/2025
The ongoing, longstanding suffering and deaths of so many innocent Palestinians continues to haunt me.
At the same time, I continue to assert that I am in no position to criticize Israel for its response to the unspeakable evil perpetrated by Hamas and many other Palestinians on October 7, 2023—as well as the countless other terrorist attacks and existential threats to the country/people's very existence for much/all of modern and ancient history, continuing today.
With all of that in mind, for those who believe you *can* and *should* criticize Israel/Zionists/the IDF/Jews, may I ask why you are so certain that everything you see/hear about the horrors occurring in the region are exactly as being alleged by Hamas and others?
I do appreciate that many of the witnesses are doctors and others who have no obvious reason to lie, and I do appreciate that there does seem to be a lot of evidence for various atrocities and tragedies.
Nevertheless, there have also been many instances of *disproven* allegations, as well as outright lies/fakeries. So how do you know or determine which claims and claimants are to be trusted?
For example, would you believe this gentleman/expert is credible: https://youtu.be/oYmY1sllh-0?si=BcstRIRFWnDGwJjB ? If not, why? And what makes *your* chosen sources any more credible?
Lastly—and again, none of this takes away from the nightmare that is the existence for so many Palestinians—why do so many people who are anti-Israel, Zionists, IDF and/or Jew fail to consider Hamas and the UN's role in certain decisions made, such as restriction/distribution of food and other resources? That is, there is unequivocal *proof* that Hamas steal the (vast) majority of those essential supplies for themselves and also for sale to the people they are ostensibly representing at reprehensibly high prices. Why should Israel continue to allow the incompetent and/or corrupt UN reps to facilitate such crimes for the benefit of *Hamas*?
Why have I seen/heard fewer supposed supporters of Palestinians call out the evil that is Hamas than brave Palestinians themselves have done?
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