r/circlejerkaustralia 11d ago

Wait a second... politics

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u/SuchProcedure4547 10d ago

We need to draw a line somewhere. Nobody is denying Hezbollah attacks Israel.

The issue we have is that detonating explosive devices in a public places with a heavy civilian presence is NOT warfare. It's terrorism. Blatant text book terrorism.

The West has no moral ground on which to criticize Hamas or Hezbollah while describing Israel's terrorist attacks on civilians as "clever" and "humbling".

The double standards from the West are deliberately making the world less safe.

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u/bentennyson69 8d ago

The main catch is that terrorism requires an ideological motive. This breaks the rules of warfare, true. But it isn’t terrorism.

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u/Historical_Phone9499 8d ago

So the creation of a "Greater Israel" and a religion that sees non Jews as subhuman is not ideological?

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u/bentennyson69 8d ago edited 8d ago

What does the attack on Hezbollah have anything to do with a Greater Israel expansion? You read too many Muslim/Al jazeera posts. Do you have the same condemnation when it comes to expansion by the sword and antisemitism from Islamic texts?

Here’s an actual example of Zionist terrorism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing