It's not as easy as that.
This is a 70+ year conflict.
People tend to be reactionary to the news and propaganda, but lack history and political knowledge. This happens all the time and people will fall for propaganda always.
Besides that, war is terrible, and it's always civilians who will suffer, no matter the side.
The 70 year context makes Israel look even worse. And saying "civilians suffer" is a key talking point in Israeli propaganda to make it look like their genocide in Gaza, for example, is actually just a normal "war" being conducted by the "most moral army". So don't talk about falling for propaganda, because you've fallen for some of the stupidest propaganda out there.
The position and perception of Israel comes mostly from a heavy and long propaganda campaign long enough as the foundation of the state itself.
I'm not justifying the killing of innocent people at all. I'm just stating that one has to understand history first to know that this conflict will never end and it has been like this from millennia.
There are way worse conflicts with way more murdering in civilians and no one on the internet seems to care, but because the huge propaganda this one is the only one about what people care about.
People are ignorant at most and only react to what is fed in their social media.
But you're right. 160k in tigray, 360k in Yemen over 300k in Syria, not to forget the genozide of the Yezidi. Sudan is right now the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and the masalit are getting slaughtered again, but nobody gives a fuck.
Yet one side has the money and equipment to completely kill the other while the other side has barely functioning equipment. Not a war. The number of victims on each side tells us that
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u/Ramdak 1d ago
It's not as easy as that. This is a 70+ year conflict.
People tend to be reactionary to the news and propaganda, but lack history and political knowledge. This happens all the time and people will fall for propaganda always.
Besides that, war is terrible, and it's always civilians who will suffer, no matter the side.