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Paul
Paul
@Paul@pauljacobson.me

Enthusiast, writer, Happiness Engineer at Automattic. I take photos too. Passionate about my wife, Gina and #proudDad.

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  • A recurring theme is how the Palestinians in Gaza are subject to "collective punishment" by Israel because Israel is attacking Hamas infrastructure embedded in civilian areas (Hamas wants civilian casualties – it looks better on the news). 💡If that is “collective punishment”, then Israelis are subject to “collective punishment” every time terrorists launch thousands of…

  • @rticks@mastodon.socialI think you're giving Likud more credit than the party deserves

  • @rticks@mastodon.socialDon't be too quick to vilify a Israeli prime ministers alone. The Palestinian leadership has refused repeated proposals to establish a Palestinian state, and they refused each time. As for Sharon, he led us out of Gaza in the hope that this would be the start of a Palestinian state and peace. That obviously didn't…

  • @rticks@mastodon.socialNetanyahu has a ridiculous cult of personality that blinds far too many Israelis to what he really is.

  • @rticks@mastodon.socialI think the issue is less Likud and more Netanyahu (although the party enables him)

  • @rticks@mastodon.socialAll I can say about that is that there's no accounting for many Israelis' taste.

  • If Israeli hostages are treated well by Hamas, then that is a positive thing. Why hope for the hostages to be tortured and otherwise treated cruelly. At the same time, this doesn't change the barbaric, vile nature of the attacks on 7 October, or Hamas' relentless attacks on Israeli civilians. They're still terrorists and should…

  • @amerikaThe group is probably a bit more diverse. That said, we've lived with this realisation for a very long time.