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In reply to the discussion: Netanyahu to US "Don't ever second guess me on Hamas again" [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... Perhaps if you replaced your words in this comment where you substitute "Palestinian" for Jew, perhaps you might understand now how THEY feel that perhaps it is the Jews have their only purpose of exterminating them? If that kind of feeling "justifies" genocide, do you see how that editorial in effect gives justification for what Israelis claim Palestinians are doing to them? If Israelis are talking openly about genociding Palestinians because they claim that Palestinians want to wipe out them, then perhaps the Palestinians have Israeli's own words defining why perhaps they might be justified in wiping out Israel too.
This BS of extrapolating "everyone on the other side" wanting to wipe you out is what is going to have you both wipe each other out. Given that Israel does have nukes, this possibility of suddenly you nuking each other with the extremists on both sides wanting to wipe each other out seems more likely each day. Too bad your neighbors will have to live with the fallout if that happen.
If only the peaceful Israelis and Palestinians that are ignored by everyone there were somehow given more of a voice and power to take charge and put the extremist murderers on both sides in prison where they belong, and start down a path of reconciliation, that will likely take at least two generations to start to realize with all of the kids that are being killed and traumatized this time around.