• Dominik@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Idk about the public opinion but I’m not surprised that people are not publicly showing their support for Israel > if you look into the news people are getting stabbed for showing it.

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      1 year ago

      My experience is the opposite.

      I have a lot of Jewish friends and live in a place with a lot of Jewish people, and I see plenty who support Israel and have no problem being loud about their unequivocal support for Israels response. While the comments from my Jewish friends who don’t support the response have been much more muted. Except for one girl who is pretty pissed that her suffering from the attacks is being used to justify what she calls is atrocities against the civilians of Gaza. My neighbor even told me over drinks this weekend that he keeps his mouth shut about it because he fears the retaliation (primarily social) from his Jewish community about the fact that he strongly disagrees with Israel’s response.

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        1 year ago

        Hmm interesting, my take is fuck the Hamas, fuck the Israeli government both have done horrible things (and no I won’t support one over the other because A is a tiny bit less horrible the B), I want the civilians on both sides to be able to live a peaceful life.

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      1 year ago

      That’s not the reason.

      The reason is because Israel decided to squander any good-will they had by launching a massively disproportionate attack. Public sympathy was with them for while.

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        1 year ago

        The reason is because Israel decided to squander any good-will

        There’s a very big difference between “good will” and “luxuriously-funded propaganda” - every measure Israel has taken against Palestinians in the last seventy years has been “massively disproportionate.”

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        1 year ago

        You are getting downvoted but you are objectively correct. It only took a few days for Israel to squander any goodwill they had after the attack. And they’ve been squandering good will for decades. I grew up in a Jewish community and it’s amazing to see how fast they destroy sympathy for their cause, if I didn’t know any better I would think it’s self sabotage.