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Is the side with the most casualties automatically the victim?

During WW2 there were a lot more German civilians who got killed than British or American. Does that make Germany the victim here? Or maybe Germany started to attack and therefore had to pay the price for that?

When thousands of terrorists which control a certain territory decide to slaughter innocent people, including beheading babies, burning children, raping women, killing and kidnapping more than 1,000 civilians, they know the consequences.

When terrorists hide in hospitals, schools and between "innocent" civilians, they know the consequences. And they know that people from around the world will see the results and automatically blame the other side, simply because it is bigger and stronger. They count on this propaganda. Unfortunately, they are succeeding, as your comment proves.

That doesn't change the truth. A country has the right to defend itself. Good that they are doing that.

20,000 people have died in Palestine since Israel launched their attack. Most of these are innocent - Hamas doesn't have anywhere near that number of members. Many of the people killed were children, sick, elderly and pregnant people.

There's plenty of footage out there that you can see for yourself... a bunch of kids playing on the street, then a car drives by with a suspected terrorist in it - and WHAM - the whole street is blown up, along with the kids. The killing is indiscriminate.

In your last paragraph, are you saying that because terrorists hide amongst innocent people, the innocent people deserve to die?

But that is exactly the awful outcome of the actions of Hamas. If they cared about their own civilians they would never do such horrible crimes.

Unfortunately, they didn't leave them any other choice.

The terrorists (which include more people than you think) hurt Palestinians as well as Israelis.

And as for innocent people, there are a lot of civilians in Gaza who are not officially a part of Hamas, yet they cooperate with them, as seen in October 7th. Their "Innocent" people participated in the massacre, killed, stole, kidnapped and more. In fact, some of the Israeli hostages who are still at captivity are kept in apartments of those who are not considered terrorists. So as you can see. a lot of people who we think of as innocent are actually part of the terror actions.

Is this a contest?

Every country in such a horrific event would act the same, and probably worse. History shows that.

But only because it's Israel, it is wrong and "not proportionate".

This is hypocrisy at best.

No, and also not 20,000. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. An eye for 20 eyes is just evil. Sure the US did the same after 9/11 (except they attacked the wrong country) but the majority of conflicts in modern history didn't end by simply outkilling your opponent.

Second, it seems that you are confused.

Hamas is evil. Israel's reaction is a nation trying to defend itself. The Israeli army doesn't intentionally kills children or other innocent people. That is the big difference. It kills terrorists and destroys Hamas ability to repeat their actions in the future.

I would be glad to read your ideas for a better way to react. I'm sure that you have a rich experience in the area, since you know so much about this subject.

Taiwan, on the other hand, functions as a sovereign government on its own and functions as a country. It has its own form of government, military, passport, etc. However, it is just claimed by the PRC, and Taiwan also claims the PRC's territory as well. Most countries recognize the PRC because recognizing Taiwan would lead to a boycott from the PRC, a major player in international affairs, such as politics and trade.

After the nationalist-communist civil war after WW2, the Nationalist China was defeated and retreated to the island of Taiwan, formerly called Formosa. It was considered a government in exile until 1971 when the ROC got fully kicked out of the UN and replaced with the PRC.

Also, I would not be surprised if JetPunk is banned in the PRC. Just saying!

Please enlighten me.

The numbers are not the issue here.

The issue is who tries to ensure peace in the area, which if you know your history, you're probably familiar with the enormous compromises that Israel has suggested during the last decades, and who's only goal is to demolish the right of another nation from living. Looking at numbers without knowing the history is pure, well, ignorance.

Be sure that if Palestinians had the ability they would have already kill all Israelis.

Israel, on the other hand, has the ability, and despite that, is not doing so.