DarthJon

"I visited Israel, talked to a few people, so now I'm an expert on the longstanding and complex conflict so I'm going to write a completely one-sided diatribe against Israel."

Did I capture it?

I don't suppose you've thought about the possibility that the people he's "interviewing" are saying exactly what they know will generate a response because it's obvious he's not an actual journalist and is just looking for gotcha moments for his social media feeds.

Then of course there's the fact that he could easily have talked to hundreds of soldiers who didn't say what he wanted, and he's just cherry-picked the small number of soldiers that give him what he wants for his social media feeds.

But that would require people to think critically. Or at least just think.

Zionists don't enforce their will with the barrel of a tank. They protect their nation with the barrel of a tank. Big difference.

100,000 Jews were killed in pogroms between 1918 and 1921. And yes, the purges were absolutely about Jews. They just hid their antisemitism by focusing on Zionism as the target (sound familiar?). But it was nothing but good old antisemitism: The Jews are a threat to Communist Russia because they're greedy cosmopolitan capitalists.

No, what's happening in Gaza is nothing like the Warsaw Uprising.

Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Pulled out every single soldier and uprooted 9000 settlers. The people of Gaza responded to that act of good faith by putting Hamas in charge. Hamas violently overthrew their political rivals, murdered them all, and then began launching rockets into Israel. That's why Israel implemented a blockade and fenced the place in. And Oct 7, 2023, was a demonstration of exactly why that was necessary. That attack would have happened much earlier and on a much larger scale if there were no blockade in place.

He stays calm, I'll give him that. But repeating Palestinian propaganda is not "relentlessly taking apart Piers Morgan."

The Hannibal Directive is not, as he claims, "where Israel takes measures to kill captives." It simply gives operatives permission to fire on enemies who have taken captives even if doing so puts those captives at risk. This is a subtle but very important difference.

Second, although there is evidence that the Hannibal Directive was implemented in a very limited number of cases, there is absolutely no proof that it resulted in "hundreds" of Israeli civilian deaths as he claims. The IDF had such a small number of helicopter gunships in the area because of their delayed response that they simply couldn't have killed such a large number of civilians.

Third, it is irrelevant. Even if it were true that, say, 300 civilians died under Israeli fire, that still leaves 900 civilians murdered by Hamas. Does that make their barbaric orgy of violence less morally reprehensible? Are they somehow not evil anymore because they only butchered 900 people rather than the full 1200?

This propaganda is just one of the many, many attempts used by Palestinian activists to paint Israel and the IDF as amoral monsters that have no respect for even the lives of their own people. It's nothing but dehumanization.