The Israel/Palestine war is simpler than you are making it seem. Israel has killed more people, kidnapped more people, tortured more people, tortured them more thoroughly, killed more people during torture, done more terrorist attacks, and killed more people in terrorist attacks than Hamas. But that's okay because Israel didn't start the war, so the side that started the war deserved it. Oh wait, Israel did start the war by invading Palestine. Also, it's not terrorism when we do it.
Germany funds 1/3 of the war. Divide the numbers by three and Germany still comes out worse than Hamas. By the numbers, the west isn't merely "not flawless" - to reiterate, the numbers say the west is behaving worse than Hamas.
Which is probably why they don't put the numbers on the news any more.
And Germany arrests pro-Palestine protestors and shuts down pro-Palestine organizations very regularly. I live there and everyone who thinks the war is bad is scared to say it. It has happened that organizations that simply allowed their halls to be used to host a pro-Palestine lectures had their funding removed and were shut down, so organizations are afraid to do this unless they're about to be shut down anyway. Police just randomly arrest people at demonstrations - even if they can't find something to charge them with, the arrest is enough to deter them. Speaking Arabic is banned. There are some demonstrations but only a small fraction of people feel courageous enough to participate. Speech has been successfully chilled.
Germany funds 1/3 of the war. Divide the numbers by three and Germany still comes out worse than Hamas. By the numbers, the west isn't merely "not flawless" - to reiterate, the numbers say the west is behaving worse than Hamas.
Which is probably why they don't put the numbers on the news any more.
And Germany arrests pro-Palestine protestors and shuts down pro-Palestine organizations very regularly. I live there and everyone who thinks the war is bad is scared to say it. It has happened that organizations that simply allowed their halls to be used to host a pro-Palestine lectures had their funding removed and were shut down, so organizations are afraid to do this unless they're about to be shut down anyway. Police just randomly arrest people at demonstrations - even if they can't find something to charge them with, the arrest is enough to deter them. Speaking Arabic is banned. There are some demonstrations but only a small fraction of people feel courageous enough to participate. Speech has been successfully chilled.