Palestinian death toll rises to 1500.

This in a few days of bombs and missiles into civilian areas. This is before the ground offensive starts and before or the health system collapses. Two things that are about to happen.

This is likely to result in tens of thousands of deaths and many more due to starvation and disease. This is before we get to life changing injuries, which will be tens of thousands again.

I'm not shedding a tear for the Hama's fighters who targeted civilians but I am for everyone else. If a whole population must be made collectively responsible for the actions of their government then, well I deserve to die. By logical extension, I must be responsible for the Iraq war, Brexit and all the poverty caused by Tory austerity policies.

Do we value all lives equally? If we do, then we should be all be condemning the actions of the Israeli state.

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HannahSky · F

Not getting into condemning Israel. Most people are concerned about civilians. If you're not, something is wrong with your thinking.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@HannahSky I don't know about "most people", my impression is that almost everyone fell to binary thinking and oversimplification, and picked a side as if this was a football match, and couldn't care less about the civilian casualties so long as it's not their team "losing".

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@HannahSky A number of the people on this page express support for killing Palestinian civilians.

HannahSky · F

@Burnley123 @Elessar like I said, something is wrong with your thinking if you're not concerned about civilians. Not to mention that military service is mandatory in Israel. It's not a volunteer military.

HannahSky · F

@Elessar I have to agree, it's not a sport to pick sides on. Most people don't seem to be able to fathom what war is.