Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Treating the Israelis simply as settler colonialists that inherently need to genocide the people they stole their land from gives the Palestinians no agency. It ignores that Palestinians really could have had a Palestinian state but some Palestinians have repeatedly made that not possible by acts of terror.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_ppEHXs3w
192 journalists have been killed in Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5I5Fb15BVc
“Netanyahu insists that these initiatives “reward” terror. On the contrary, they make his espoused goal more likely: a regional deal in which Hamas is isolated by the Arab world, and the Palestinian Authority, which long ago agreed to the two-state solution, takes the lead in legitimizing and helping to buttress a new Gazan administration.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/08/09/gaza-palestinian-authority-west-bank-business-00492175
I Was Wrong About Israel: What I Learned on the Ground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgUzVZiint0
“Dangerous viruses that cause severe paralytic illness are thriving in Gaza, where starving children living under an Israeli blockade can’t access the food or treatments they need to recover.
For months, health officials have warned that the destruction of the Gaza Strip’s sanitation facilities by Israel could fuel the surge of infectious diseases, as seen in last year’s polio outbreak. Now, doctors are reporting a surge in cases of acute flaccid paralysis, a rare syndrome causing muscle weakness that can make it hard to breathe and swallow.
Cases in Gaza include acute flaccid myelitis, which mostly affects children, and the better-known Guillain-Barré syndrome, said Ahmed al-Farra, head of pediatrics at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/doctors-gaza-struggle-fight-rare-paralytic-illness-under-israeli-blockade-acute-flaccid-paralysis-guillain-barre/
Senior CNN reporter says American news networks are underplaying the frequent Israeli killings of journalists in Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0eOI7LfioY
Countries recognizing a Palestinian state while Hamas is in power helps cement their power because Hamas can claim that their strategy worked. Their strategy of terrorist attacks and using their people as human shields worked to get the Palestinian state recognized by more countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYQkD_vkxRE
The Israel-Hamas conflict is surrounded by so much misinformation, and people latch on to the misinformation and propaganda so unquestionably, that it makes it hard to tell what’s going on and many professionals don’t want to even touch the story. Everything is so he-said-she-said and stories always change after bad information has already spread, that it is difficult to know what the truth is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaOOi-d-bOU
Aid workers have confirmed, Gazans are starving.
Seems pretty clear that Israel can argue that their goal is regime change, not genocide. It makes sense that a country would not want to live next to a regime that actively wants to wipe them off the face of the planet. Hamas and other terrorist groups could end this at any time by surrendering and allowing the rule of a non-terrorist entity. As long as they don’t, Israel has to either fight the terrorist group, which cannot be done without civilian casualties, or just wait for the next Hamas attack. Nevertheless, Israel has committed war crimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrhBypHFYPY
“the Israeli military will also start a complete occupation of Gaza in order to stamp out Hamas, with the end goal being to surrender the territory to “Arab forces that will govern it properly without threatening us,” in Netanyahu’s words. This means the 800,000 to 1 million Palestinians who still reside there will be evacuated south, with a deadline of October 7 of this year.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/08/the-occupation/