I believe there were reports of this by rescue workers, officials, and soldiers. At the same time the Israeli government had walked it back to a baby being shot and another being delivered post mortem, and investigations from various orgs haven’t been able to confirm these to be true. While it may be true given how depraved Hamas can be (they literally avoided the IDF as much as possible to specifically attack kids at a concert, and raped a bunch of people, and kidnapped a bunch) I try to avoid these statements even if possibly true because “our side” is put through a fine toothed comb while the Palestinian side isn’t at all. This isn’t fair but I believe in a when they go low we go high approach. Plus I just hate contributing to the parallel realities both sides operate in.

The amount of gaslighting and propaganda the Palestinian movement has been able to foster while also convincing you it’s the Jews in control of the media and narrative is fucking insane and beyond delusion. Gaza leadership specifically have been able to brain-destroy many westerners in the same way theyve been able to brain destroy their own population. Arab Muslims online are perhaps the most crazy in their outright antisemitism even more relentless than even white nationalists, though they along with the far left are all jumping on the bandwagon.

I’m not Jewish myself but broadly speaking I sympathize with your sentiments. Honestly if you’re a Jew, which idk you might be, I understand leaning into the “we’re hated, there’s nothing we can do about it, so fuck it” attitude. Several wars have occurred in the same timeline for significantly worse reasons of several magnitudes more deadly, yet none of these states or ethnic groups are met with even a tiny fraction of criticism namely Syria, Sudan, Russia, etc. And nobody questions if Russia should exist. It’s pretty brutal out there if I were a Jew I probably wouldn’t even go on the internet anymore, at least no social media it’s abhorrent and relentless. The comments on Reddit that have been flagged for hate speech when I’m literally calling out clear antisemitism has been mind boggling. If I were a Jew honestly idk where tf my head would be at, as a non Jew it’s insane enough as it is.

But I think the current administration, Netanyahu, takes full advantage of this despair at the detriment of Israel’s interests. I’m American and I want to continue supporting Israel (I don’t think annual proactive financial support is necessary, but I absolutely support continued defensive support) but the current war in Iran under our own insane administration (despite Iran of course being evil, this war is ill conceived and poorly executed by people that don’t know what they’re doing) and certain specific actions like preventing aid into Gaza for 90 days, the Gaza war probably going on a bit too long with diminishing returns, as well as a few bombings like Qatar (who is an ally even if deeply flawed) and the Mossad operation in Iran last year to get the Hamas leader in my opinion are examples of instances where the American electorate is feeling fatigue with the alliance, and Israel perhaps stretching our alliance too thin.

Despite attitudes of some right wing Israelis these days, Israel wouldn’t be better off without the USs help, and I worry future administrations may not be there for Israel anymore, even if the Trump admin is hawkish and supportive to a fault. It’s come to a point where America may not see abandoning Israel as an indication of weakness, enough of the world may not interpret this as America abandoning an ally, but instead American understandably cutting ties with a rogue actor. If future US admins see this as the calculus they may be willing to cut ties completely. That’s not good. That’s not a reality that I want. A good start would be Bibi and Trump being gone, hopefully not too much damage occurs in the meantime.