Today I am going to breakdown in the most simplistic way I can why I am pro-Palestine and anti-Israel. And when I say I am “anti-Israel” I am referring to the government/governing forces of Israel. I am in NO WAY anti-Semitic or referring to the Jewish people in any shape or form. The actions of a governing body do not speak for the entirety of a single culture. That is absurd. And if you think that, you don’t understand how the world works.

In my town, like most American cities, there are 4 Starbucks on the same street. Let’s imagine that one day a couple of robbers go into it and hold everyone there at gunpoint, demanding that they give them all the money in the register. Somehow, someway, the authorities are alerted and they show up in seconds. Instead of reasoning with these 2 people they just decide to bomb the Starbucks because it’s easier for them than investigating. Time is of the essence, and the local police are an overfunded military force. Y’know, for safety.

As the bomb sends pieces of building and dust miles into the sky, the 2 robbers and hostages in the other Starbucks down the street look out the window and wonder what the hell just happened.

The police, realizing that they have the wrong Starbucks, go to the other one and do the same thing. Turns out it wasn’t that one either.

FINALLY they show up to the right one and do the same thing, because they haven’t learned their lesson from the other two situations. So they have destroyed 3 Starbucks with all of the innocent people inside in the process. All of this destruction and death to get 2 people who tried to rob a single coffee shop.

And this doesn’t even touch on the subsequent deserved public outrage, the inevitable police cover up claiming it was a coordinated effort with multiple assailants, or that these were cops from a town over.

Lets pretend for a moment that everything we’re being told by the Israeli government is 100% true and that there is this intricate network of tunnels connecting all of the buildings that Hamas uses to carry out their terrorist attacks.

Now let’s say that about 75-80% of Gaza is not related to Hamas in any fashion at all, they’re just people trying to live their lives in this “country” smaller than the City of Los Angeles. If you’re a highly militarized nation (Israel) if their goal, as they have informed us, is to root out Hamas, one does not just willynilly bomb everything above this sprawling network of tunnels. They would send in a highly trained task force to root them out. You are supposed to be sophisticated and smarter than them, right?

This government is acting like the incompetent police force. With their lack of regard for human life all because their “goal” is to stop crime and to “keep people safe” by any means necessary.

Thank you for coming to my “Josh Talk.”