The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #172755 Message #4192098
Posted By: Steve Shaw
23-Oct-23 - 04:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hamas attacks Israel
Subject: RE: BS: Hamas attacks Israel
Well yes, Lighter, but (at risk of being accused of whataboutery), there are 4000 "political prisoners" in Israel, including hundreds of women and children and at least 1000 who are being held without charge. So no good guys in this, eh?
As for Hamas hiding in tunnels, etc., some of you talk as if somehow that "isn't fair." Well they are not an army. They are up against one of the world's most powerful armies. Like all insurgents and guerrilla groups, they resort to tactics that those powerful armies have no need to resort to. That's a statement of the way things are and always have been, and is totally disconnected as to whether we should support one side of the other. Hamas thinks they're right, Israel thinks they're right. Hamas's actions were thoroughly disgusting. Israel has killed 5000-plus civilians, half of them children and women. Recoil from that but remember the history.