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If that’s really true, why weren’t they protesting when the saudis were bombing the hell out of Yemen?

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So disingenuous as you know that you’d be against people protesting that too.

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So let’s say the protest works. There’s a cease fire. Good job everyone. So smart and ethically superior.

Now that you’ve all made the world a better place, what is going to happen to the innocent Israeli hostages that Hamas has?

What will happen if Hamas continue to fire rockets into Israel? Like they always have?

If you can’t answer these questions it’s not really because you can’t, it’s because you won’t. It’s a bad faith discussion.

I’m assuming you’re ok with Hamas stealing and diverting the international aid that was intended for improving the lives of Palestinians and diverting it themselves and buying rockets and launching more October 7th style attacks in the future.

I’m sure you’ve all thought this through like the smart people you are.

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I would expect them to returned, post haste.

Hamas likely will keep firing rockets, as killing thousands of children will tend to make their fathers turn pro-Hamas.

It seems to me that you think that whilst the hostages are not returned then the killing should continue, is that right?

As for the rest of your points, yes I have thought about them, no I don’t support Hamas. Someone that can put it better than me is Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish man and arguably the foremost expert on the conflict and certainly the most well read. You should check him out if you really are open to listening to a counter argument to the msm.

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21 points

You pointed at another bad thing and somehow that means that we shouldn’t care about this bad thing?

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8 points

The US doesn’t finance Saudis bombing Yemen.

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They sell them the bombs don’t they?

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I mean, does it really make a difference? I agree that more things like this should be protested. But even if you think they’re hypocrites that doesn’t mean they’re wrong now. Put it this way: if they had protested the Saudis, would this protest be totally cool with you?

And obviously the answer is because their university and government are backing and funding this one. If you can’t see the difference in relevance to the average American you have a serious problem.

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Their government and (probably) university were backing the other one as well

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But obviously not to the same extent. And I’m sure we can agree that that was a bad thing to do

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21 points

That’s a good point, we should be ending our relationship with both Israel and the Saudis! Both countries are constantly violating established human rights, according to international law.

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Thank you correct. At least you’re consistent

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56 points

Whatabout whatabout whatabout.

Jfc read a list before trying to argue with people. You’re embarrassing yourself.

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