lissa♡

1) There is no apartheid. There are nearly 2M Arabs in Israel with citizenship and full rights. Palestinians in Gaza had their own area to control. They had their own government. They received billions in aid, which was split between corrupt theft and weapons. More aid per capita than any other place on earth and almost none of it used to benefit the people there. That was a choice that led to restrictions from both Israel AND Egypt on what they would let enter Gaza. 2) There is no genocide. Genocide is the intentional killing of a group of people with the intention of wiping them out. What Israel is doing, in providing evacuation routes, create safe corridors, limiting strikes etc. is the precise opposite of genocide. Which is especially apparent when you realize they have the capability to wipe out Gaza in hours and yet have consistently tried to minimize innocent deaths. 3) Painting Hamas as just 4 random terrorists with pistols is more gaslighting. Hamas has fired 11K+ rockets at Israeli cities and still fires daily. They have been stacking up military-grade weapons provided by Iran, building military infrastructure under civilian infrastructure to coordinate attacks and use civilians as shields for almost 2 decades. They executed one of the largest attacks in recent history on 10/7 and intentionally started a war with the knowledge that Israel would be forced to go after them in Gaza, the place they are in charge of, in response and that it would inevitably lead to extensive casualties there. There is no country on earth that would allow a massacre of their own people followed by indiscriminate rocket attacks on their cities without trying to put a stop to it. And a ceasefire doesn’t do that, it just buys Hamas time to rearm and launch their next attack. And btw Hamas actually knows Israel isn’t interested in genocide. Why do you think they put all their bases in hospitals and schools? There would be no benefit to doing so if they didn’t believe Israel would go out of its way to limit civilian casualties. It’s also why they are trying to keep Palestinian civilians from leaving those places now.