Really? But Israel controls the West Bank and…

Oh yeah, that’s right. It’s full of illegal Israeli settlements and displaced Palestinians.

In high school, weed mulch was all we had.

Doctors Without Borders reports that well over a hundred children in Gaza are dying every day. Israel kills more children every week than total civilians died on 10/7.

Hamas’ attack was heinous, but it is not even close to being a justification for killing one in every hundred Gazans and counting. The actions of a terrorist group do not absolve Israel of responsibility in its mass slaughter of children, for which you are a despicable apologist.

Germany killed 60% of European Jews between 1933 and 1945, which is 5% per year or 1.25% every three months.

Israel has killed 1% of Gaza’s population in three months, and if they maintain current pace will be at 4% per year.

So they’re 80% as efficient if they sustain the current rate. Not a huge discrepancy.

Your math is wrong. Israel has killed 1% of the population of Gaza (23,000 out of an estimated 2.3 million) in under three months. So at the current death rate they would kill the entire population in 12.5 years, not 23.

That’s not what tax deductible means

By “reading Hamas fairy tales” do you mean reading and quoting this Vox article by Zach Beauchamp, a Jewish reporter who attends weekly services at synagogue?

Good argument.

19,000 is the total I’ve seen, but I don’t think there are good figures on civilian vs. combatant deaths. I was assuming a very conservative 2:1, which I saw reported somewhere, but I assume the civilian share is much higher, given that at least 7,000 or more of the dead from Israeli attacks were children.

In any case the point is that if killing Israeli civilians is wrong then killing dozens of times more Palestinian civilians should also be wrong. It’s a shame that most of the American political leadership doesn’t see it that way and instead wants to send Israel even more weapons with which to murder a vastly disproportionate number of civilians to the losses suffered in Israel.

And if the death of, by the latest count, 764 Israeli civilians is a Holocaust, what does that make the death of 12,000 Palestinian civilians?