Comment by rendall

I understand that genocide and especially the death of children makes it difficult not to be emotional. Genocide happens when people are emotional and convinced of the rightness of their cause.

There is a phenomena in genocides called "Accusation in a Mirror" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror The side that is committing a genocide genuinely believes, or cynically accuses, the targets of their genocide of perpetrating genocide. Right now you believe that is Israel. Right now I believe that is Hamas.

In your favor: the ratio of Palestinian civilian deaths to Israeli civilian deaths.

What I find alarming about all of this, is that there is genuine, physical and video evidence of genocide where the only explanation is genocide and its perpetrators admit that it is genocide. The world dismisses this as lying, or playing the victim.

In Israel's favor, these assertions:

"We are not targeting civilians intentionally." Dismissed as lies.

"Hamas is using civilians as human shields." Dismissed as lies.

"The high ratio of Palestinian to Israeli deaths is an artifact of Hamas policy." Dismissed as lies.

"Our women were raped." Dismissed as lies.

"Babies were burned alive." Dismissed as lies.

Every single assertion that Israel makes about its intentions are dismissed as lies no matter the evidence. The only acceptable explanation for people (such as yourself?) is that Israel wants to commit genocide and is lying to do so.

By contrast, Hamas explains to the world that they intend genocide and will try for it as long as Israel exists.

I don't know how much clearer it can be. What am I missing?