I don't disagree, but don't pretend you haven't effectively set up the equal and opposite thing here. No mods will ban anyone but other than that every comment section is an implicit competition for best pro-Palestinian talking point, even when decency demands otherwise. We don't talk about Oct 7, and if we do it was friendly fire, and if it wasn't it was a natural consequence of Israeli policy in Gaza and that is the real issue. Yeah fine we admit the attack was not a hundred percent morally sound if you insist so much, but we don't assign a moral weight to it or linger on it because hey when you make innocents suffer, you sow the wind and eventually reap the whirlwind, oh sure Hamas' response was ugly but what can you do, you know, be a bastard and it comes around. Now it is our moral duty to call loud and clear for a ceasefire -- the cycle of violence must stop.

I know what you're thinking: that's not fair! That's not my opinion! Yeah, the circlejerk doesn't care about your private opinion. You know better than to contradict any of the above around here in writing, and that's enough. I'm sure a lot of people privately think "oh... tbh that last IDF strike was unconscionable" before posting on /r/worldnews the part of their opinion they know the crowd will like better.