Palestinian leadership was literally aligned and allied to the Nazi party during WW2.

This is a gross oversimplification, and a direct response to the anti-colonial sentiment of the middle east during the WWI - WWII era. They aligned with the Axis powers because they wanted independence, mostly from England & France.

You are just sloppily shoe horning this historical “gotcha” without explaining any of the context in order to justify your subjective perspective about contemporary issues.

You know what you are doing is trying to frame Palestinians as Nazi sympathizers in order to win the emotional propaganda war.

Here’s some other interesting historical context from another poster @chaogomu regarding the inter-war and post war period as well as Netanyahu’s ties to what can best be described as the Jewish ultra-nationalist / supremacist organization Lehi. I take no credit for this information, but felt it was important to add to this discussion.

Netanyahu’s political party, the Likud, were partially founded by members of Lehi. Including the first Likud Prime Minister.

Lehi was a Zionist Terrorist organization in Mandatory Palestine. Their main operations were political assassinations of any leader who supported the British, or opposed their ideal of a Jewish ethno-state. This included Jewish and Palestinian leaders.

They also took part in a few massacres of Palestinians, including raping women before killing them.

But the meat of this tangent is what they did during WW2. See, they really hated the British. So much so that they made multiple overtures to join WW2 on the side of the Nazis. They kept trying to join in until 1942. (and only stopped when the founder of Lehi died)

Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia talking about Lehi;

According to Yaacov Shavit, professor at the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, articles in Lehi publications contained references to a Jewish “master race”, contrasting the Jews with Arabs who were seen as a “nation of slaves”.[47] Sasha Polakow-Suransky writes that “Lehi was also unabashedly racist towards Arabs. Their publications described Jews as a master race and Arabs as a slave race.” Lehi advocated mass expulsion of all Arabs from Palestine and Transjordan,[48] or even their physical annihilation.[49]

Netanyahu’s early political career was directly mentored by former members of Lehi. It’s why he sabotaged the peace talks in the 90s.

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The reason they do it is they KNOW it affords them protection because of the way Israel operates.

Now imagine the situation reversed. Hamas wouldn’t believe their luck.

Edit: I also just remembered that according to US ROEs, a hospital can become a valid target if it is sheltering combatants who are actively attacking.

I have no idea what Israel’s rules are but I think the above is a morally defensible position.

It is literally an excuse because it makes it no longer a war crime to hit those facilities