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Gefen Bar-On Santor's avatar

War is inherently dehumanizing. I hate war and fear war. Children are among the most helpless, and I feel terrible about any innocent person who dies in war--children and adults. In order to do what we can for wars to hopefully become a thing of the past, there is another litmus test that we have to pass: are we playing into the hands and stepping into the traps of those who want war? Unfortunately, when it comes to Israel and Hamas, this article's generality (stating facts that any person with a conscience can agree on) and its lack of specific discussion of what leads to children being killed and how this can be prevented plays into the hands of what the Hamas is expecting from the West. Israel did not create the facts of October 7--the murder, rape, torture and kidnapping of civilians that was unprecedented in the history of Israel. These facts were created by Hamas, and if they did not happen there would not be bombs falling on Gaza right now. Unfortunately, Hamas is able to count on another empirical reality: they know that they can do whatever they want and within a very short period of time the world will start to criticize Israel or talk in general about how terrible war is (which indeed it is terrible). It is important to talk about the innocent victims of war and the inherently dehumanizing nature of war, but this cannot stand separately from an analysis that points out who wants and causes their victimization, so that hopefully those who love war can be weakened. Therefore, in my opinion, in the context of Israel and Hamas, the best thing that people who hate war can do is to condemn the Hamas without unintentionally giving them the gifts that they are counting on. The Hamas want as many Palestinian children as possible to die. Statements about the fact that the death of children is wrong without an analysis of the of the nature of the Hamas play into the hands of the Hamas, who are relying on the world to develop false moral equivalents. I am in a very difficult emotional position: I was educated to hate and fear war ever since I can remember myself. However, I am not willing to step into the trap of the Hamas by forgetting who wants as many Israeli and Palestinian children to die--the Hamas.

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Linda E.'s avatar

We don't want War. It is the psychopath globalists who are fomenting this. Their grand puba Albert Pike told them they needed a world war lll. These are satanists and they need to disappear permanently, and then there wouldn't be all this death and trauma.

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