I genuinely do not know who the bad guys are. S lot of my leftist friends are against Israel, but from what I know Israel was attacked and is responding and trying to get their hostages back.

Enlighten me. Am I wrong? Why am I wrong?

And dumb it down for me, because apparently I’m an idiot.

  • Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.worldOP
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    Why does Hamas get to say they want to eradicate Israel as a state and have Arab-majority control over the region, but Israel doesn’t get to say they want to control the entire region? What makes who correct to say that in either case?

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      17 days ago

      but Israel doesn’t get to say they want to control the entire region?

      What do you mean Israel doesn’t “get” to say that?

      Israel does say that, and Israel does control the entire region, and almost every Western power allows them to.

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        I guess I meant to ask why is it morally okay for Palestinians to want to do that, but not morally ok for Israelis to want to do that. Is it because Israel is an apartheid, ethnostate?

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          Palestinians want the right to return from where they were ethnically cleansed, Israel wants to maintain a Jewish majority state.

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      Israel is saying they want to destroy Hamas which is the government of Gaza.

      And they are saying they want to control the region. They call it Greater Israel.