Terror against Israel
Nothing can excuse such intentional monstrosities as in the attack against Israel (2023-10), neither committing them nor celebrating them.
I thought I understood how much human rights are under attack when Russia attacked Ukraine. The attack on Israel hits deeper. It made it undeniably clear to me that people intentionally organize to violate human rights not “just” for power or illusions of greatness, but for hate.
The violation of human rights is then not a means to an end but part of the intention. And that is horrible.
And in the face of this largest murder of jews since the holocaust, nuances fade. There are no reasons that can justify this.
Update: Hamas intentionally murders Israeli civilians and intentionally puts Palestinian civilians in harms way. It even thwarts efforts by the Israeli army to prevent civilian casualties. If you are on the side of Palestinian civilians, you need to stand against Hamas.
I disagree with many of the things the current far right government of Israel is doing and has been doing, and I am certain that the Israelis will vote them out of power soon, because those far-right ministers have proven that their strategies are a failure.
But we must remember that while the Israeli government can be changed by voting, Hamas cannot be voted out, and the expressed goal of Hamas is a genocide against Jews (see Article 7 of their covenant).
This article is short because the horror eats my words.