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I think the most amazing part of the comments is how much the sentiment has changed over the last 2 years. Is anybody else noticing this?

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A lot of it is that Israel has stopped bothering to make a believable pitch to the rest of the world that their actions are justified.

People will latch onto even implausible justifications to avoid changing their opinion. When there's just nothing at all, it gets a bit difficult.

What shocks me is that there are still people trying to whitewash and/or defend the genocide.

They are stuck in the bubble. They too will come out.

what are you talking about? The sheer number of 10+ year old hn accounts tirading to defend, downplay and whitewash the actions of Israel in the comments in this exact thread is simply horrifying. .

I'm saying the percentage of this appears different to me

Plausible deniability dried up as the blatantly skewed results of this “conflict” became impossible to ignore.

And Israel will still get away with it. There will be delays, complaints, but 10 years from now Israel will have Gaza and at best the Palestinians, reduced in number, will live in a small ghettos. At worst somewhere else or dead

They will get away with it if we believe we are powerless to change it. Russia has been proven to be pushing defeatist propaganda similar to your sentiment, and I'm sure Israel has been as well.

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