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 Thing is you put the blame of Oct 7th solely on the Israeli government. "To me this suprise attack seems like a planned operation." [sic]

You may be right that there is a blame to put on the government, but your zealotry against the current government, like the rest of the leftists and, I assume, idealistic view that we can have peace with Palestinians, leaves you blind and omit yourself from also pointing fingers to the real culprits of the massacre that happened that damned day.

Hamas.

Not a single word of condemnation, even a single line. Especially when the blog was written so recently to the event. Just dry facts.

Do you see why you get the hatred? Granted you'd get it anyway from the extreme right wing people, but now you'll justifiably also get it from moderates, and hopefully moderate leftists whose dreams of actual peace have been shattered. 

Don't take this post to mean, that I don't want criticism of the government, far from it. I just want you to understand why people hurl scathing remarks at you. 
 You base your long judgemental answer about me on 1 post?? Seriously? Have you seen all my work on the topic? That is quite superficial. Go watch all the videos I made and everything I write and then see if I did not criticize hamas. In what world would I not criticize the terrorists who performed atrocities? You’re very wrong about my stand - simply cuz you’re uninformed - and quick to judge. Again, using nice silly labels such as “leftist” etc.