Israel (now broader Mid East discussion)

Also, I think one of the points I've tried to make all along which I haven't really heard any good retort to (thus far) is:

Even if Hamas tunnels exist, does that justify destroying all homes of all Palestinian people in Gaza?
Even if some Hamas members use civilians as human shields, does that justify slaughtering Palestinian civilians at will?

A simple thought experiment is..answer the questions above, then replace 'Hamas' above with 'IDF' and 'Palestinian' with 'Israeli' see if you're able to give the same answer.

If you aren't, I believe there's a big problem.

Hopefully we can all agree on basic history, at least? In order to see that there is evidence that the US has supported genocidal campaigns in other countries before, so there'd be reason to be suspicious...

I mean, shoot...the US government supported the Khmer Rouge in their genocide of millions of Cambodian people in the 70's.

I'm sure big wigs disparaged the student protestors in the 70's as they do now.