viewpoints.xyz

viewpoints.xyz
Vote

Israel Palestine

Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

185 people have given 1911 responses

Statements with the highest number of 👍 or the highest number of 👎 appear at the top (if everyone thinks 👎, that's consensus too)

We can criticise even those who have been historically oppressed for war crimes

96%
1%
3%

Raping women and killing babies is a war crime

95%
0%
5%

Deliberately killing civilians is a war crime

85%
5%
10%

An atrocity against Israel does not justify it to commit war crimes in turn

85%
5%
10%

Hamas is an explicitly antisemitic organisation

81%
7%
12%

Hamas is a terrorist group

80%
2%
19%

It is unfair to punish a group of people for the actions of a minority in that group.

78%
6%
16%

Far more Palestinians have been killed over the years than Israelis

76%
3%
21%

It is unacceptable to call for the destruction of Israel or Palestine

75%
8%
17%

Hamas is an Israeli terrorist group used to deceive the West into destroying Palestine.

8%
73%
19%

Palestinians have few options

71%
13%
16%

Westeners typically dissociate from the tough parts of the Israel/Palestine conflict, rather than facing them as necessary to produce real solutions

67%
7%
26%

The Israel/Palestine conflict is like the Russia/Ukraine conflict

15%
63%
23%

Israel should suppress Palestinians who try to destroy Israel

60%
15%
25%

Hamas is the political party for Palestinians who want to get rid of Israel

59%
11%
30%

Palestinians want to destroy Israel

54%
4%
42%

I don't really know what's going on

22%
51%
26%

Hamas' political power over Gaza is legitimate

13%
50%
37%

If Gazans really elected Hamas, then whatever consequences come their way from Hamas actions are kinda deserved

26%
48%
26%

Palestine should cleanly separate their leadership from their civilian population so Israel can more easily kill off the leaders without civilian casualties

48%
15%
37%

I would prefer that politicians do nothing than that they do something for the sake of it

45%
16%
39%

Netanyahu should be removed from power

44%
8%
48%

If Gaza were a separate nation, we would understand Israel closing the border and invading to stop attacks.

44%
24%
32%

The Israeli Defence Forces use the same tactics as terrorists.

37%
43%
20%

If Israel and Saudi Arabia don't renormalise relations that will be a huge loss

40%
16%
44%

It is arrogant for Israel to demand Palestine to remain peaceful while continuing to oppress them.

39%
27%
35%

Egypt is comparably unsupportive of Gaza as Israel is

38%
24%
38%

It would be better overall if all Gazans were moved to the West Bank

6%
38%
56%

Relocating one of the peoples to a different area is worse than the conflict continuing indefinitely.

12%
36%
52%

Israel's treatment of Palestinians amounts to apartheid.

35%
25%
40%

Selective focus on 'Free Palestine' while ignoring conflicts like Turkey's actions in Cyprus and Syria, the Myanmar crisis, and Armenia's occupation of Azerbaijan, suggests a bias against Jews, contradicting claims of anti-racism and egalitarianism.

30%
26%
43%

Palestinians mostly support Hamas

29%
6%
65%