What have I distorted?

You can go into the history, that's important, sure. But regarding current events. Don't make it a numbers game. One side intensionally made innocent people suffer atrociously, while the other, in reaction, is only harming innocents because it has not choice.

Also, there are a lot of "propaganda/fake" claims flying around, but there's nothing easier than calling what you disagree with fake. You have to do your due diligence. You are a serious person and I trust that that is exactly what you will do.

Finally someone here is willing to admit their ignorance. You probably know more than most low-info voters commenting here.

1) Sure, what a trivial claim to make.

2) Israel has not been occupying Gaza since 2005. Guess who they elected: Hamas.

3) Gazans protested "peacefully" last year near the border and the army let them. It seems now that it was cover to prepare for the Oct 7 attack.

4) Israel *provides* energy, because Hamas was too busy with their holy war and couldn't care less how well their people fared! And there were tons of Gazans working in Israel before Oct 7, e.g. in construction. Contrary to whatever propaganda you are being fed, most Israelis do not think that Gazans are inherently evil and deserve their misfortune. But there is no way to attack only Hamas, because they insist on actively putting their population at risk, and put no effort into protecting them. The body count serves their propaganda, convincing useful idiots in western countries.

5) Yes, this is true. You realize that Gaza and the West Bank are different places though, right? As much as settler aggression is awful, it does not satisfy atrocities. Justifying Oct 7 in this way is just crazy. You must really not know, or choose to not believe, what happened that day. There are videos, by the way.

6) Most Israelis are not even of European descent. Most are African/Persian/Yemenite...

7) Israel has been attacked multiple times, and won. The occupation of some of the aggressors was the result. I am for a two-state solution, but I don't pretend that Arabs/Palestinians are not to blame for their situation.

8) Resistance, as in rape, beheading, painfully killing on purpose, including children? Many of the people that were gruesomely attacked that day are pro-peace, who had friends in Gaza. What an awful irony. Only monsters like Hamas are capable of this. Again, their actions were so horrific that I understand why it's difficult to believe they actually did this. But there is *tons* of evidence. I also personally know someone who was there, but you probably wouldn't take the word of some anon.

You deny that Hamas are using hospitals as humanitarian shields. Will any amount of evidence convince you that you are wrong?

Anti-semitism is a concept, you are not supposed to take its etymology as its meaning. That would be like objecting to the word "fingernail" because it is not made of metal.

The fact that you are bringing Covid into this is telling. Classic virtue signalling.

If you think "it's pretty straightforward" then you don't really understand what is going on there. For one, Gaza hasn't been occupied for almost two decades.

Does "standing up for themselves" include torturing and raping civilians? Burning children? You can say about anything that it is "propaganda" and just believe whatever makes you sleep well at night. That's cheap. I hope you don't look up the videos from Oct 7 for your own sanity.

Hamas is not a resistance group. They are terrorists. Hamas doesn't care about the people of Gaza, or any people, it only cares about its holy war and the afterlife. They don't even hide it. Over the years, Hamas, as the elected government in Gaza, used its aid money to build tunnels and arm their hospitals and mosques, instead of caring for its people.

Israel can trivially kill over a million people in Gaza if it wanted to. There are people in Israel who would be happy to see people in Gaza die, but they are a minority, and not part of the army's higher ranks or pilots. Instead, the IDF let the civilians evacuate, at the risk of terrorists evacuating too. Of course there will be a lot of casualties if you are determined to destroy a group that uses a populous as its shield. Welcome to war, there is a reason why everybody hates it.

Israel is not free of blame. If anything, it should have been more heavy-handed with Hamas. It should also cooperative more with the leadership in the West Bank, and not enable settler aggressions. But there are no settlers in Gaza! Did you even know that Gaza and the West Bank are two separate places that do not even share a border, or leadership? I bet this is news to you.