Not the first government to go to "war" with civilians over a terrorist attack, sadly.
They'd never say it but it does seem to be something of a pattern.
I do feel bad for the civilians killed on October 7th. At the same time, my brain literally learned to skip one/two paragraphs every time I read an article on Israel-Palestine since it's always the same "oN oCtObEr 7th..." stuff. At this point it looks like they're trying to shove it and program it into my brain than to inform me of anything. It comes off as brainwashing at this point. No one writes a paragraph about the flour massacre or the invasion of Al-Shifa, or the countless strikes on refugee camps in every single article on Israel-Palestine.
Human suffering is bad no matter what country the humans happen to live in. IMO, this is a callous meme, OP.
Is it though? I don't think this meme is saying that the Israeli civilians didn't suffer.
All I can read into this meme is that the Palestinians have suffered more than Israelis. Which I think is true.
Any Humanist will naturally conclude that the greater pain is the most important one to stop, so even if you accept the wildest numbers of dead Israelis in the 7th of October, Palestinian pain is now at least 20x worse.
Racists, on the other hand, look at the etnicity of those in pain to determine which is the most important.
This kind of Israeli "we're the real victims here" Propaganda is aimed at racists that see Israelis as "people like us" and Palestinians as "people not like us" since anybody who is not a racist won't be sayed by an argument that boils down to "a guy punched me in the face so it's entirelly fair that I went to his home, killed the whole familiy - including children - after which I killed all his neighbours and am going to go to another town to kill the rest of the family".
You can criticize the government's disproportionate and cruel response without trivializing the many innocent lives lost in the 10/7 attack.
The people that are trivializing the tragedy on Oct 7 are the ones using it as a justification for genocide, not the people critical of genocide.
Sadly people only bring it up as an excuse for the Genocide. Nobody brings it up as a commemoration.
I get downvoted for the same sentiment often on here. Compassion for civilians should be universal.
The sad thing is, it’s the same people that believe they “shouldn’t be blamed for Trump if they didn’t vote for him” that can’t see the hypocrisy.
