Criticism of the israeli state is not antisemitic. That is the first point.
Secondary, the attack by Hamas on israel was a retaliation for decades of oppression, and the vast majority of the victims were soldiers, as in israel the military are embedded into the population.
Thirdly. Hamas, Hezbollah have fired a lot of missiles, but the vast majority, by which I expect 99% have caused no casualties, whereas israel is indiscriminately putting top drawer missiles into family homes killing and maiming tens of thousands of completely innocent people.
A way to quantify that is . Do you live an a terraced house, a multi-story flat etc ?. So in other words you have neighbours.
Do you know what all of your immediate neighbours do ?. Maybe as a job you know one or two, but not everyone.
But say for example one of your neighbours had an affiliation with a banned group.
Do you think the government, would be justified to bombing the entire housing area, killing not only that neighbour and his family, but also your entire family and the families of your other neighbours.
Because that is exactly what israel is doing. You are not only arguing for that concept, but blaming the deaths of the innocent neighbours on those neighbours themselves.
Some strange logic, and dubious "facts" here.
Where do you get the idea that the vast majority of the victims of the Hezbollah attack were military?
Most sources seem to agree that the actual figure is somewhere between 3 and 4 hundred, out of over 1100, hardly the overwhelming majority.
So some sources for your opinion would be interesting.
Rockets. You appear to be saying that as most are intercepted that is ok?
Why do you think Hamas and Hezbollah go to the considerable effort and expense of launching them, to give the Israeli air defences some target practice?
The intention is to kill Israelis. They use mainly unguided weapons, so have no idea what they are going to hit, and they don't care. These are people who believe that the only good jew is a dead one. Men, women, children, military or civilian they don't care.
The multiple salvos of hundreds of missiles are presumably in the hope that they might overwhelm the defence system, much as this would appear to have been Iran's intention recently.
To argue that it doesn't matter because they get shot down beggars belief. The Nazi's fired thousands of V1 bombs at London during the war. Something like 90% were shot down, so was that a "no foul"?
Why are you not critical of the use of these weapons by Hamas and Hezbollah? Their intent is indiscriminate killing of the Israeli population, the fact that Israel's defences render them largely ineffective is completely irrelevant.
Hamas hiding within civilian infrastructure is in itself a war crime, you can understand why they do it, because in the past it guaranteed them a degree of immunity.
No civilised person would consider it acceptable to level an entire apartment block to kill a handful of people who lived in one flat, or to bomb a hospital because their enemies had set up under it.
Until relatively recently Israel would have shield away from such things, but not anymore.
It is quite clear now that they are quite prepared to accept huge collateral damage in pursuit of their objectives. This is of course quite wrong, and should be unequivocally condemned.
So as I have said many times before they are as bad as each other.
The very partisan views on either side, whether that Israel are entirely evil and Hamas Hezbollah merely oppressed freedom fighters, or that Hezbollah and Hamas are "getting what's coming to them" and Israel should be supported come what may, I find sickening.
I lay a major part of the blame at the feet of Donald Trump, and his hissy fit decision to scupper the deal with Iran.
He was of course quite right that it wasn't a very good deal, but that entirely missed the point. Given the historic relationship between Iran and the west ANY deal was a big step forward.
Had the various participants found it to their liking then it could have been built upon incrementally, to the benefit of all concerned. Had it continued then we would be unlikely to see Iran backing Hezbollah to the degree they are, or supplying weapons to the Russians for use in Ukraine.
Hamas might have been far less likely to have launched their attack had they know they would be alone to suffer the inevitable retaliation.
Conspiracy theorists would have us believe that Putin dictated the whole thing. Personally I think the explanation is much simpler.
Trump is a moron, who behaves like a bull in a china shop. He is simply too stupid to comprehend the subtleties of this sort of thing, or the potential long term consequences, in this case to have driven Iran from the beginnings of a working relationship with the west, straight into the arms of Putin.
