Incorrect. For fuck's sake, I spent several hours on Sunday sitting shiva with some jewish friends of ours (friend's elderly mother passed). THEY are critical of Israel's treatment of Palestinians, and have been since I've known them. There is PLENTY of criticism of the actions of Israel, including criticism among Israelis and jews themselves.
I'm sorry, but so long as the Palestinian cause waves a fucking "glory to martyrs" flag celebrating the purposeful and gleeful slaughter of innocents, I cannot stand with them. I can't do it.
No. It's not because of Hamas. It's because the Palestinian cause and those who support it are consistently and repeatedly SUPPORTIVE OF AND ALIGNED WITH HAMAS AND WHAT THEY DID. Glory to fucking martyrs. Glory to people who were gleefully slaughtering innocents, with full intention and purpose. Nope. Sorry. I don't care what your fucking circumstance is or was, when you gleefully slaughter innocents and glorify it because it's what you WANT to do, you lose all support and sympathy. There's a line. It is being crossed, repeatedly. Nope. Not gonna do it.
A Palestinian cause that says "we're ripshit pissed, we think Israel has fucked us, but we don't support the gleeful slaughter of innocents?" Sign me up. People keep telling me that cause exists....but it sure seems like every time we go looking for that cause, it turns into "and glory to the martyrs," or "sure, Hamas did some stuff, but have I told you about how bad the jews are?" If you wanted to put on a clinic on how to take a facially sympathetic cause and piss all sympathy away, today's supporters of the Palestinian cause should be given a professorship in that clinic.