You a re being very reductive in order to make your point, but thats fair enough, I don't entirely disagree.
But I would like to point out that the situation is significantly less symmetrical than the picture you paint:
Yes, lots of Israelis treat the other side as second class citizens (apartheid analogies make a valid point).
BUT if you flipped the power distribution, and gave the Palestinian side a fully functional modern army, then we would no longer need to be arguing about the semantics of "genocide", because practically every single jew in the region would be killed within weeks. There is significant restraint on the Israeli side that they deserve quite some credit for, in my opinion.
I believe it is very important (and right!) to keep the ruling side (Israelis) "honest", and to speak out in favor of the "underdogs", but the "both sides" argument feels dishonest and misplaced here to me, and IMO "the West" fully supporting the Palestinian side would have been genocidal from the start, and escalated into an unmitigated disaster basically immediately (my position is that the current situation is still a barely "mitigated disaster", and de-escalation instead of October 7and its lead-up would have been an actual possibility with some effort from all sides).
But I would like to point out that the situation is significantly less symmetrical than the picture you paint:
Yes, lots of Israelis treat the other side as second class citizens (apartheid analogies make a valid point).
BUT if you flipped the power distribution, and gave the Palestinian side a fully functional modern army, then we would no longer need to be arguing about the semantics of "genocide", because practically every single jew in the region would be killed within weeks. There is significant restraint on the Israeli side that they deserve quite some credit for, in my opinion.
I believe it is very important (and right!) to keep the ruling side (Israelis) "honest", and to speak out in favor of the "underdogs", but the "both sides" argument feels dishonest and misplaced here to me, and IMO "the West" fully supporting the Palestinian side would have been genocidal from the start, and escalated into an unmitigated disaster basically immediately (my position is that the current situation is still a barely "mitigated disaster", and de-escalation instead of October 7and its lead-up would have been an actual possibility with some effort from all sides).