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I genuinely do not know who the bad guys are. S lot of my leftist friends are against Israel, but from what I know Israel was attacked and is responding and trying to get their hostages back.

Enlighten me. Am I wrong? Why am I wrong?

And dumb it down for me, because apparently I'm an idiot.

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[โ€“] rtxn@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The Middle East has been cooking for so long, it's impossible to point at a faction that is the "Good Guys". But right now, one faction is hell-bent on exterminating another nation's people, both military and civilian, so it should be pretty fucking obvious who the worst "Bad Guys" are. There are no good guys, only victims.

You should read Ramzi Yousef's statement at his 1998 trial. Terrorist factions like Hezbollah and Hamas exist only because Israel is consistently refusing to make peace through diplomacy.

[โ€“] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

How about not calling the municipal governments of populations targeted with genocide 'terrorists' unless you're one of the nazis trying to use that as an excuse to exterminate them?