Hamas attack on Israel

[Pretty Boy]

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Not wrong at all, but that's not what people are saying or seemingly supporting. "Death to the IDF" or "I want them to disappear" is not that same as "I still want the IDF but a nicer kinder and gentler version of them" I did give that as an option though.

'Disband the RUC' was a popular rallying call among Republicans during the troubles in Northern Ireland. I never took that to mean that the north of Ireland shouldn't have a police force at all but rather that the one they had was unfit for purpose. Collusion with Loyalist paramilitaries, sectarian prejudices and misuse of emergency powers all made it an obvious target for protest.

Death to the IDF is a more extreme version of that and I do think the wording is a bit unfortunate but I don't take it as an out and out call for Israel to have no armed forces. Israel has the right to defend itself; what it doesn't have is the right to slaughter people collecting humanitarian aid or sing their own songs of joy about destroying villages and schools before going on to do exactly that.

The IDF is an obvious target in the same way the RUC was because they are openly abusing their position of power in a comparable way.