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1. Honestly that VICE article was a big old pile of yikes for me as it seems to more or less imply that Hamas violence against Jews is ALWAYS justified but Jews shouldn’t be allowed to defend themselves from terrorists, I think it’s aged VERY badly personally(plus I think the author was dead wrong about the game as a whole, Ellie’s quest for revenge makes perfect sense)

   Also don’t know if you’re aware of this or not but there was actually a ceasefire in place last year and Hamas were actually the ones that broke it on the October 7th terrorist attacks, so I honestly don’t know if another one would do much good if any, even if we do get another one(highly unlikely at this point)what’s to stop Hamas from just breaking it again. I have to say i’m legit disturbed at how many self-proclaimed progressives are spouting low-key antisemitic dogwhistles while in the same breath proclaiming “free Palestine!”. If one is truly progressive you can’t just pick and choose which group of marginalized people you think deserve more sympathy, either you sympathize with every nationality or none of them, of course that is to say Israel is most definitely not above criticism here(I want Bibi gone as much as anybody), but to act like they shouldn’t be allowed to defend themselves against terrorist attacks(which killed innocent women and children who had nothing to do with the conflict mind you, something that certain people including that Rami guy seem to have conveniently forgotten)is willfully ignorant and naive.

2. Also I think Druckman is right and “intense hatred” is a perfectly normal thing for most people to feel, I certainly feel that towards TERFs, Nazis and anyone defending those Bin Laden letters.