One can believe both parties are committing atrocities, even if the scale is clearly different between them.

I think they are hardly disciplined here.

Responding by leveling the homes of millions of civilians, holding people in an open air prison. Limiting food, water, and medicine, killing journalists, building an apartheid state, systematically using rape as a means of controlling prisoners, deploying white phosphorus on civilian populations.... these are not just or reasonable responses.

Israel's actions are truly horrifying in scale. The violence aimed at civilians, the systemic abuse of people just trying to survive on subsistence.

I'm not falling for any arguments. I'm simply observing what Israel is doing and saying, "this is truly awful. The scale of misery they are deploying against their enemies is unconscionable."

I didn't say that. I said the unintended results are the purpose of a system, not the intent.

This is objectively happening in the West Bank and Gaza.

> assaulting and raping Arabs without consequences.

This is also objectively happening. A group of IDF soldiers were filmed raping a man to death. Their punishment? Literally nothing. They are cheered by some.

You cannot possibly believe that these sorts of behaviors are helping calm things.

Some people cannot take a step back and consider other perspectives, unfortunately.

Edit: see? Their response, "I like it"? This person is deeply troubled and misanthropic.

Claiming that a system's purpose is something it consistently fails to do is absurd. Intentions don't matter, outcomes matter.

This is a pretty basic systems theorist argument, to be honest...

They can initiate a citizen's arrest, which would permit them to detain you But if they are wrong, and you've committed no felony, that guard is civilly and criminally liable for false imprisonment -- a pretty serious charge. Most store security are unwilling to risk their own personal necks to protect the company's interest in $20 of shampoo or whatever.

Instead they get a record (for nothing) and risk prison. They cannot afford to prove their innocence.

Don't look at where the ball is, look at where the ball is going.

Imagine a world where people didn't care about labeling new things "woke", and instead could all sit down and say, "we're going to make major investments in next generation infrastructure to ensure our capacity and independence."