Sure, both sides deserve scrutiny, but the contrast is stark.
There are more than two sides. Eyewitnesses are the only side in which I am interested.
One openly calls for genocide,
Israel, specifically the Likud Party.
(tends to damage credibility, don't you think?)
Quite the understatement. When the IDF mows down innocent men, women and children just because they are Arab, and then says "Oh, we aren't responsible!" ... there isn't much credibility there.
starting with Jews but targeting all infidels (all of Western Civilization) as well, driven by an evil radical ideology.
Let's say, hypothetically, that someone were to claim that Gaza's administrators were of this opinion, is there any evidence to back this up? Obviously the evidence for the IDF's genocidal position is overwhelming, i.e. the active genocide itself.
Israel, whatever its flaws,
Too funny! Let's try it this way: The Nazis, whatever their flaws were,
doesn’t advocate wiping out every Arab
They don't advocate it. They do it. By the looks of it, they're just getting started. Israel has broken every cease-fire. Israel sabotages all peace talks. Israel will not stop slaughtering Arabs by the thousands ... Arabs who never attacked Israel and who never had anyone "hiding behind" them.
(can we be accurate, Palestinians are Arabs, not a distinct people).
I don't recognize those who self-identify as Palestinian as being Palestinian because there is no Palestine. I don't recognize vampires and
trans-women either.
My instincts flare when radicals execute women for showing their faces,
Do your insticts flare when Zionist terrorists blow up apartment buildings, shopping centers, schools and hospitals just because they are full of Arabs? Do you totally fall for it when the terrorists thereafter pretend that they somehow took out a "Hamas military base" or something equally absurd.
Thanks for reminding me. Murders of gays in Israel has been increasing for years.
and rule through fear and brutal punishment.
Thanks for reminding me. Israelis oppress Arabs like they are slaves. Any IDF commander can raze any Arab's home for morale and amusement purposes, and arrest him without any sort of warrant or court order. After said Arab has sat in jail for a few weeks and is released because there never was any evidence of any crime, they don't rebuild his home. Israel rules through fear and brutal punishment.
Credibility crumbles for those who strap bombs on their own people,
Oh, were you going to bring Iran's proxies into this as well? I totally agree that the IDF, Hezbollah, Al Qassam, and Islamic Jihad are the planet's most active and horrific terrorist organizations in that order. I wouldn't believe any propaganda coming from any of them.
slaughter innocents at music festivals, overrun villages, rape, mutilate, and behead infants while filming it on iPhones
Don't forget "violate conventions by committing hundreds of egregious war crimes daily," "perpetrate genocide for a spike in popularity polls in Israel," "slaughter aid workers who try to help the targets of the terrorism," etc...
Compare that to media outlets peddling “Baghdad Bob” propaganda.
... but you are supposed to be commenting on the specific eyewitnesses. What reasons do you have for dismissing their testimony?
There’s a chasm between an American testifying freely in court and someone cowering under lifelong oppression.
We are talking about the credibility of eyewitnesses. Are they credible or not? Are American eyewitnesses credible but Arab eyewitnesses not?
Hamas wouldn't think twice about killing and mutilating children
Hamas have never killed or mutilated children. Are you conflating Hamas with Al Qassam, i.e. the militant terrorist organization that attacked Israel? Surely you aren't accusing Gaza's civilian administrators of killing and mutilating children, are you?
just to take pictures and claim the Jews did it.
Speaking of pictures, would you do me a quick favor and post a few images of Hamas fighters who are not Al Qassam fighters?
Are you not aware of the countless cases of using the weak, elderly, and children to shield themselves and their weapons from harm
Are you not aware that that is an absurd quip that the gullible are told to regurgitate? Have you not thought through how absurd the concept is? There can be no such thing as "human shields" when the IDF are out to kill all Arabs. Any Arab who is trying to survive being waxed by IDF terrorists doesn't stand any better chance of surviving by throwing another Arab in front of himself and hiding behind him. He has only guaranteed that both will be slaughtered. The idea of "human shield" requires the attacking force to respect the "shield" and not attack for fear of harming the shield. The IDF are looking to lay waste to all shields as well as all other Arabs. There can be no such thing as any human shields where the IDF are concerned.
And I should point out, If thugs from a place like [Iran] did Oct 7th in an American town, that place would be a smoldering crater by now and CNN would be there siding with the terrorist as usual.
FTFY. I don't disagree. Also, if peaceful, defenseless Arabs from a place like Gaza simply wish to live their lives, Israel would nonetheless flatten that place into a smoking husk, where dead children by the tens of thousands need to fished out of rubble, and American Christians and Jews will all be high-fiving each other in celebration.
So, admit it, be a man and be honest, you're hate for the Jews was complete long before Oct 7th.
So, admit it, be a man and be honest, you're hate for Arabs had consumed you long before Israel began their genocide in Gaza.
I'd be happy to be wrong,
Nope. Admitting that you are on the very wrong side of this issue would be too painful for you, hence I don't foresee it ever happening.
and this is just a case of you buying into the propaganda,
Observations are not propaganda. Your denial of observations is the worst kind of dishonesty.
the pictures, the 'eyewitnesses speaking without coercion or fear', but I'm not quite that stupid as many here think.
You haven't answered the question. Are eyewitnesses credible? What about Arab eyewitnesses?
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