[ OPINION ] Gen Zers Support Hamas's Slaughter of Israelis.

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An Insane Number of Gen Zers Support Hamas's Slaughter of Innocent Israelis | Opinion
By Brad Polumbo, October 24, 2023, at 11:54 AM EDT

As the world continues to process the horrors of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli that left 1,300 dead and thousands more injured and the horrors of the ensuing war in Gaza, young Americans are coming to vastly different conclusions about the situation than... well, anyone else. A new Harvard-Harris poll asked Americans what they think about the Hamas-Israel conflict, and the results sharply diverged along generational lines.

Overall, Americans overwhelmingly support Israel over Hamas. A whopping 84 percent of respondents told pollsters they favored Israel, while just 16 percent favored Hamas. Among older Americans over 65, an astounding 95 percent supported Israel, and just 5 percent said their sympathies lie with Hamas.

But among young people age 18 to 24, things looked quite differently.  Just 52 percent of this group said they supported Israel, while 48 percent said they supported Hamas.  Yes, that's right: Nearly half of young respondents said they side with the terrorist group that just earlier this month purposefully targeted and slaughtered innocent civilians, including women, children, and infants, in a chilling and sadistic manner.

It should go without saying -- but apparently it doesn't -- that no matter how much one sympathizes with the plight of Palestinian people, it is still wrong to slaughter concert goers and burn their bodies. It is still wrong to kill entire families huddled in their bomb shelters. And it is still wrong to murder babies.

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This may get me banned, but IN MY OPINION, the terrorist group Hamas and it supporters are getting what they deserve.  Fnord

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You're in no danger of being banned. Your assessment is correct.

Ahh, but one of the first casualties of war is always the Truth.

WTF are you talking about?

"They" are HAMAS.

How are they "getting what they deserve" when they havent gotten so much as a scratch yet?

Israel hasnt launched its ground offensive yet.

The civilian population of Gaza is suffering from being cut off from supplies and being bombed. But the civilian population is not the same thing as the HAMAS organization.

HAMAS is safe in basement bunkers underneath hospitals and places of worship while Palestinian children die on the streets above.

You make it sound like you have seen photographs of the stacked up bodies of armed HAMAS fighters slain in fire fights with the IDL.

I would love to see that, but I dont see photographs of that.

Hamas receives support from the families, friends, and neighbors of its members -- the Palestinians.  Those tunnel entrances are not in the desert, but in residential areas.  At the very least, the collaborators "looked the other way" when Hamas was digging their tunnels under their homes.

In every war, collaborators are considered the Enemy.

Would they have had a choice either way?

My kids are Gen Z (94, 96, 96)
They are all anti-Hamas / Pro-Israel.
Of course they care about all citizens but they're horrified by 10/7.

(As are all people.)

Were they also horrified by 9/11?

^^^ What makes you so confident that there’s always an alternative?

Having been in situations where there wasn’t, I don’t think I can agree with you there.

Yes --

My son was in second grade.
He later dated a Jewish girl from Brooklyn who was at school in second grade when it happened.

The other two were too young to really remember it.

My dad was profoundly affected and it was a big deal for my family.

My younger son is dating a Jewish girl now, in Australia.

All of them have Muslim friends so it's not about that either.

I tolerated seven years of violence and attempted murder by making nice so I wouldn't be killed, and to protect my children. Only once did I fight back.