Lot of downvotes, but just have a look what countries around Israel are doing about Gaza. Nothing. Looking the other way after their own negative experiences with Palestinians.
Sudan. Myanmar. Columbia-Venezuela. Syria.
That was 5 minutes research. Every conflict in this list has more children killed than the total deathtoll in the Israel-Palestina conflict, even if you believe hamas' absurd figures.
Or to pull out a really dramatic figure showing just how prejudiced people are against Israel/Jews: Palestinians killed more children in the Syrian civil war than the entire deathtoll in the Israel-Palestina conflict going back to 1880.
The Palestinian-instigated Syrian civil war killed more people than ALL deaths not due to old age in Israel-Palestina, including everything from traffic accidents to those 5 idiot soldiers who managed to fire a rocket aimed at themselves on an empty training ground 3 years ago. Palestinians killed more people in Lebanon in the civil war than realistic figures of the Israel-Palestina conflict.
Which shows the usual muslim prejudices. A million victims, like in Sudan, the better part of a million victims, like in Syria, millions deported in Armenia just 2 years ago, all just doesn't matter, because whoever you blame in that conflict, they're muslim. And muslims don't care about brutally murdered victims. They only care about blaming Jews.
It's hard to help Palestinians when Israel is actively bombing you them as well, like they did with Iran. And like they did with Lebanon.
> Looking the other way after their own negative experiences with Palestinians.
They have all called out the genocide that's happening. Here are some examples: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/9/saudi-arabia-slams-n...
And the other ones are being bombed by Israel anyway (Iran and Lebanon).
Also, whatever differences the Arab states had with Palestine, only one country is actually doing a genocide to the Palestinians, and that's Israel.
Israelis themselves call it out: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/28/israel-committ...
Starving the population (war crime) https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/08/gaza-israel-...
Killing civilians looking for aid (war crime) https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/20/middleeast/israel-gaza-ai...
Bombing hospitals (war crime) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jvx3yjg3o
Killing Journalists (war crime) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgnp154eeko
So all kind of what-about-ism can't distract us from the fact that Israel is doing a genocide in Gaza.
Palestinians causing civil war in Lebanon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War
Egypt building 12km buffer zone to stop spread of militants into Egypt and smuggling of weapons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Gaza_border
So your whataboutism can't change the subject I have raised - why no local power is trying to help Palestinians much. Because they were already burned by them in the past.
What's your point? Genocide now is genocide now, you are either on the right side of history or not. You can what-about all day, Palestine did this, Palestine did that, the fact is that right NOW Israel is doing a genocide to the Palestinian population.
Are you trying to make some apologies for this specific genocide based on past events? Cause that's a slippery slope, my friendo. T
> have raised - why no local power is trying to help Palestinians much
Nah, your whataboutism can't change the subject I raised: many local powers can't help Palestine for fear for their own safety. After all, Israel started a war with two other nations in the region: Iran and Lebanon, in the last couple of months.
Calling the IDF attacks genocide does require rewriting the definition of genocide. Because the Geneva convention states very clearly - anything used for military attacks is fair game for a counterattack. And hamas uses anything and everything, from hospitals to primary schools, to attack anyone they can get their hands on, even now including civilians in Israel. That is also FAR from the only violation of the Geneva conventions hamas commits on a regular basis.
Hell the previous conflict with Israel was started by Palestinians, hamas, committing genocide on Palestinians - including in the emergency room of Al Shifa hospital. In that hamas genocide at least one 13 year old was brutally murdered, in a hospital. Along with hundreds of others.
> Israel started a war with two other nations in the region: Iran and Lebanon
Only if you consider military attacks and firing rockets at Israeli civilians as not starting a war. Both Iran and Lebanon did that. And, of course, if military attacks and firing rockets is NOT starting a war, then nothing Israel did, including in Gaza, is a war.
So what are we arguing about exactly?