😂This is a masterfully passive-aggressive way of calling me all of these things.

If it makes you feel any better, I think most people see how evil Hamas is. Even the most virulent pro-Palestine people in my comments have been able to see that Hamas is the enemy of Israel and Palestine. It was one of those conversations that inspired this article.

And many people who don't see it only fail because they're totally ignorant. I saw an interview at a pro-Palestinan protest recently where two young women, who were there protesting mind, you, with a little sign and everything, were completely unaware that Hamas had attacked Israel on Oct 7th.

You said in an earlier reply that you were "intense" about getting to the truth. But that's not true. You're intense about defending Israel. I see no intensity about getting to the truth of Israel's misdeeds. In fact, you haven't really even acknowledged they exist. I think the closest we got was, "Israel can be as evil as other governments." This is exactly the same pattern I see on the other side of this issue.

You can't prove the things you want to prove because you‘re mistaking what you want to be true with what is true. You don't know how many people have died in Gaza. You don't know whether they were mostly terrorists. You don't know how careful or otherwise Israel has been. Vanishingly few people have this information. And nobody on Earth has all of it. So what most people do, and what you're doing, is uncritically (or very lightly critically) believe information that supports their preferred narrative, and develop unbreakable powers of skepticism when presented with information that contradicts it.

And because I am interested in getting to the truth, I do my best to avoid that. Which is why I'm accused of being an antisemite by people on one side and a Zionist by people on the other. And a keyboard warrior (and, to be fair, far worse) by others. 😉

There's an awful lot of bias and emotion on this issue, which is why this war has waged so long and cost so many innocent lives. But I'm not on Israel or Palestine's side. I'm on the side of all the innocent people being killed in this conflict for things they have nothing to do with. No, my life isn't at stake. Neither is yours. But theirs are. And whether or not you believe it, I care very much about that.

Anyway, thanks for the discussion. I don't think it was pointless. The fact that it won't change the world doesn't mean it was pointless.