What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

Something that's interesting is people are very fact to say they support Palestinian and not Hamas fair enough. Yet according to the same people everyone from Israel is branded the same and should be boycotted etc

Agreed… and Israels use of white phosphorous missiles (restricted under international humanitarian law), targeting civilian populations, early in the conflict, is another example of utter inhumanity.

This post clearly shows that you know nothing about the conflict. If a terrorist takes control of a school obviously the teachers that work in the school are just as bad as the terrorist, maybe the children are terrorists just for existing.

Hamas attacked Israel not Palestine, its important to be aware of the actual basic facts before you discuss a topic. Yes Israel have every right to exist and defend itself, but they do not have a right to target locations full of children.

Why didn't the Provos just surrender to the British government?

If you don't talk to the other side, strike a deal, no matter how much it disgusts you, you're going to have a forever war.

The Provos goal was a United Ireland through armed struggle, they didn't get that. Not yet at any rate.

Point still stands. You kick a dog continuously, you shouldn’t be surprised if that dog bites you.

That's simply not true. There is a tendency for good teachers gravitate to better schools, if only for career fulfillment purposes. Also, like in any other profession, people will take jobs in good areas ahead of working somewhere dodgy.

Here's a contraversial opinion. Many schools in these areas have teaching staffs who are the dredges of the teaching profession. No real intetest in the kids, who they (wrongly) regard as having no prospects. Then throw in the odd nutcase who believes their superior to the kids because they come from a more middle class background.

In many cases the schools fail the children.

Controversial opinion. I don't really care about the whole Israel/Palestinian thing.

Both side have gone so far down the rabbit hole of hate, that a state of perpetual oppression/war/terrorism is going to be the norm.

Neither side really wants peace. Both sides seem intent on committing war crime after war crime.

The only difference between the two that I can see is Israel have more and bigger guns. Give the Palestinians the same weaponry, and they'd happily wipe each other out.

Neither side seems to care for human life. I would argue that both sides have lost a significant sense of their humanity, and and both sides have become truly hateful people. As for their leaders, whether Israeli or Hamas, they only exist to punish the other, which tells a lot about the will of their people.

I don't doubt for a second that there's a significant percentage of the population of either side that simply want to live in peace. But I also believe they'd be happy to have that if it meant the genocide of the other.

And I find it hard to feel sorry or empathize with either side because of it. If they want to be that inhumane to each other, to perpetually hold each others children accountable for past grievances and be happy to slaughter each other, then I don't see why I should care for either side.

And I don't. As much as it horrifies me seeing Israeli forces blow apart Palestinians or Palestinians kidnap and murder/torture/ launch attacks against Israeli's, at the same time I've become numb to it because I know nothing will ever change, and both sides are so full of hate that it'll be the same thing over and over until one wipes out the other.

And I care for neither side or the horrors they have inflicted on them, because they're willing to do the same. And the longer they do, the more I don't care. As inhuman as that sounds, there's simply no hope there, and personally I just fell numb to it all because of it.

It's not about opinion, it's about a poster ignoring basic facts. What if a poster says Russia are and good guys and Ukraine are the bad guys, is this perfectly ok because opinion is more important than facts?

Hamas and Palestine are not the same thing, this is a 100% fact just like the way Dublin and Ireland are not the same thing, you cannot blame children for what terrorists are doing.

Hamas are scum and I would love them to release the hostages but for them to stop Israel need to agree to a peace deal. Why should Irish people call for this solution when Israel are not willing to agree to a ceasefire or a peace agreement. The USA have been pleading with Israel to make a peace deal and Israel are still not doing this.

I can understand how the trouble in the Middle East is getting more and more irrelevant, or interesting, for a lot of folk.

Maybe not irrelevant, as if there is an all out war, it'll cost us all more in the long run.

But for any conflict situation to work, there has to be compromise on BOTH sides, and in this conflict it appears neither side is willing to compromise, so any hope of a solution is near null.