Comments by "Emanon" (@Emanon...) on "Sam Harris" channel.

  1. 2 minutes in and you're already absolutely, unequivocally, misrepresenting the context of the conflict: This never started with Hamas. This started with a brutal Israeli occupation and absolutely no accountability from the international community, the US in particular. Before Hamas was founded in the 80's, around 40.000 Palestinians had already been killed by Israel, many thousands more maimed by their "broken bones" policy. A million more displaced from their homes. Hamas is a symptom, not the underlying disease. And the disease is Israeli war crimes, occupation, settlements, apartheid and lack of accountability. It IS as simple as that. The brutal massacre we're seeing now is another case of allowing Israel to commit atrocities that any other nation would have been sanctioned and isolated for. Case in point: Russia. Which in a year has killed far fewer civilians than Israel has done in a month. "Human Shields" is only applicable if you believe the other side would refrain from bombing civilians. As the Israelis have never had a problem with 95-99% civilian casualties, the entire concept of Hamas using "Human Shields" is laughable. And how is it that Israeli intelligence never saw the attacks coming, but somehow know whenever a Hamas fighter is riding in an ambulance or hiding under a school, hospital or church? OR is the simple, rational answer this: The Israeli government seeks to maximise death and destruction to provoke, once again, a mass exodus of Palestinians. And they are very comfortable with using lies and propaganda to further their goals as they are never questioned or looked into.
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