Thread: Zionist Influence on American Foreign Policy

The IDF has certainly killed more Palestinian civilians than Hamas has killed Israeli civilians (or civilians and soldiers combined); the IDF has also caused far more damage to Palestinian residential areas, infrastructure, etc. than Hamas has caused to the same things in Israel. Israel also continues settlement in the occupied territories, which is a violation of Article 49 of the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of warfare (population transfer into occupied territories). Their control of the flow of goods into Gaza also causes massive human suffering, certainly much more than anything caused in Israel by the actions of Hamas.

I'm not pro-Hamas--just the opposite really--nor would I describe myself as anti-Israel (I just think they need to act differently in many ways). I'm not saying that Israel is "more evil" than Hamas or anything like that. But Israeli political power over Palestinians, as well as their technological/military superiority over the Palestinians, has allowed them to inflict far more destruction and suffering on the Palestinians (much of which could be called war crimes) than the Palestinians have ever inflicted on them.