Yes let’s go back a thousand years, no that’s silly, maybe just a hundred then when none of us were alive, maybe 50 years when most on here weren‘t alive, or maybe 20, 10, 5.….up until 7th October there hadn’t been killing on this scale for a few years, so let’s not pretend that the Hamas atrocities played no part in what is now happening….
And that's why we're at where we're at. That the narrative counts suffering of Israelis only. If you keep flicking a dog on the nose at one point it's going to bite you.
For decades the Palestinians have been treated as 2nd class or less by the consecutive, and worsening, Israeli state (democratic) governments*
They have had every scrap of dignity removed as well as their homes, their culture and ultimately their hopes for themselves and their children. Constantly.
And while looking to the world for help, agencies like the UN have been ignored by western politicians and their aggressors funded by the very people from whom they seek help.
People haven't been protesting their support for the Palestinian cause for less than a month. They've been doing it as long as I've been aware, and I'm in the same age bracket as you.
So yes, let's go back, and measure in deaths how far we should go, which seems to be the method used by those who won't accept the suffering constantly for 70+ years of the Palestinians. We can highlight 'atrocities' if you like, but we will always reach that point that will show the Israeli state's end game is genocide and the eradication of the Palestinian peoples.
*the democratic element used to promote Israel as having values is the same argument used by the US & UK etc to justify using depleted uranium on the people of Iraq, or the flattening of Afghanistan or anywhere else western (economic) democracy has invaded.
