#Also just to clarify: nodoby is immune to propaganda. Not me either.

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how can you dismiss "some images of dead ppl" aka hundreds and hundreds of images and videos of adults and children sick and starving, horrifically injured, or dead as just propaganda? don't you think that's your propaganda working on you to just dismiss those?

This is like one of the only asks that seems like a genuine question, so Ill answer it.

Im not dismissing the footage of war and ppl suffering that are real. People ARE suffering. Im dismissing the tons of footage that was taken from Ukraine, Syria, etc, and claimed as gaza, to paint a picture. Or the way ppl try to defend terrorists that either attacked/murdered civilians or used them as shields as some brave freedom fighters that did no wrong. I dont remember ppl being this outraged when Hamas attacked, raped and tortured innocent civilians, paraded their dead and mangled bodies on the streets and then kidnapped another 200. I remember rather vividly how many people celebrated it, and still do, and it was completely socially acceptable for whatever reason. And instead of going after Hamas and their atrocities and realizing how little they care about their own prople to do this, y’all are sending death threats to jews online. All the aid thats been going to gaza for 20 years, can you guess where it went? There is a very simple way to stop the current situation immediately, and its giving back the remaining hostages and ending Hamas. That’s literally it. You can come and say that Israel is not accepting hostage deals and Israel has illegal settlements and Israel this and Israel that, and to some extent, some of that is true! But guess what? There is usually (not always, and Ill get to that later) reasons for that! And all those reasons come from centuries if not millennia of history, decades of this specific conflict, and lot of nuance, that I cant write even an oversimplified version of it, yet the average tumblr user suddenly considers themselves an expert on! Its easy to simply look at it from a lense of “death bad” and claim moral superiority bc guess what, yes, death bad, but so is literally everything that preceded it. Also if you think Im the one brainwashed by propaganda here… I invite you to look online, literally everywhere. When I say westerners dont understand shit about whats going on here, I mean it. People think Israel is some kind of China type government that brainwashes their people to be zionists or whatever, when people here are probably the number one critics of our own government. Nobody talks about the protests that were going on here and all the struggle to fight our stupid government for years. Do you think we like Netanyahu? Every damn day I pray he gets the Rabin treatment. Do you think we don’t criticize the IDF when it does bad shit? The IDF has sooo much to be criticized for, I promise you, but it’s usually none of whatever the anti-zionists keep crying about. Its a war. What do folks expect war will look like? Its literal hell, ofc it is. Israel didnt start this war, and yet people expect it to be the one to lay down arms? It literally started because of the October massacre. Did you tell the same to the ruzkis that attacked Ukraine? Should Ukraine also stop fighting back already bc then less ppl get killed? The only reason why Israelis are not dying in masse is bc it cares for their own, and built the means to over the years. It took decades of fighting, massacres, and wars, with the sole purpose of “survive. Because nobody else will save you out there”. That is not the case for Hamas. Hamas never cared about their own people, and I hope ppl realize this soon, and start to go after them at least half as much.