Haaretz - Leading Israeli Author David Grossman Calls Gaza War a 'Genocide

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29. If I were to post pictures of actual dead babies - around 1,000 of them - would you think that was atrocity propaganda?

Pictures of shredded, dismembered and burned - with names now, if not faces. Along with 17,000 other children.

At what point does October 7th ever get to be "even"?

As long as atrocity propaganda is pushed, probably never. Maybe when the last Palestinian is dead.

That to me is very alarming. As is the clear reality that there is no understanding among most of Israel's staunch supporters, that indeed October 7th did not happen in a vacuum. Hamas didn't just wake up one day and decide to murder as many Israelis as it could.

It is not "justification" to point this out. It is a plea for even-handed, truth-based, acknowledgement of historical reality and the should-be-obvious equality of Palestinians as human beings with equal rights - rights that have been stolen and disregarded, ignored for decades.

The oppressed and genocided natives, given the chance, have throughout history committed atrocities against those who are killing and oppressing them. This is a historical fact. It is also a rather messy fact and consequence of being human - as a species, we seem to need revenge as pay-back for what we have suffered. Just look at what Israel has done to Gaza - crimes and atrocities on an industrial scale.

Should there be a Palestinian exemption to that understanding, to paint them as something less than human? All the while asking for understanding of Israel's actions?

The lesson here should be to stop oppressing and killing people based on who they are, people whose lands you want, because chances are they will rise up against you and it will be horrible.