Quote Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter View Post
At this point, I'm not convinced there are any "innocent" people in Gaza. They have been fostering the anti-Israeli hate for decades, spouting "From the River to the Sea" gibberish and supporting the PA, PLO, etc. from the start.

Israel is retaliating right now for an unprovoked heinous attack on civilians. They are taking great pains to try to minimize collateral damage -- they have done this imperfectly but so has anyone who has ever engaged in military action.

The college kids protesting for the self-styled Palestinians (nearly all of whose ancestors were located in Egypt, Lebanon, or the other side of the Jordan River when the Romans referred to that area as Palestine) or against Israel are the same useful idiots the Soviets employed to protest for a nuclear freeze or anything else that stymied American foreign policy or national security during the 60s, 70s, 80s (as a group, not individuals since the specific students hadn't even been conceived then). If the college administrators and faculty weren't in bed with the very same treasonous Leftist groups, these students would all face expulsion (with some settling for retention in the student body albeit under some form of probation).
Civilians should never be intentionally targeted. Like what happened on 10/7, and before, and what is going on now. Most in the U.S. suffer from getting the information to form their views through obviously biased lenses, along with filtering that information through closely held strong opinions that we have formed since our earliest years. Then when anything challenges that perspective we cannot see or hear what is right in front of us. If Americans were able to live the experience of what Gazans do every day for a year or three they may have a different view of things, same for people like me if I had to trade places with the Israelis on the border that survived 10/7.