There's no mask, he's a liberal zionist who mostly doesn't like the occupation and considers Palestinians humans but loves the IOF. The last thing is shared by the vast majority of Israelis. Some will say they hate Netanyahu, Ben Gvir or anyone in that coalition. When it comes to their army though, they are brave guardian angels except few bad apples. It's the reason he has so many replies defending their actions and not believing they would commit some of the depraved atrocities reported earlier in their genocide.
That's a quite unfair way to look at things.
You can disagree with him on many topics, I personally do, even on this latest matter.
But this "liberal zionist, IOF lover" is just ridiculous. You can't pin him down on what he said right after 10/7, it was a purely emotional response. I remember perfectly what he said at the time, but it doesn't take away anything from what he contributed to this thread nor what his convictions are.
I don't like this ganging up. It's too easy to unload on him, just because he's perceiving the Amsterdam disaster as a direct attack on Jews.
I personally don't believe it. I think that the Maccabi fans wilfully scratched a match right next to a powder keg and it blew up, with all the excesses it entails. The reasons are for anyone to interpret, we can only see the results. I have no qualms with proud racist, genocidal cnuts getting the living shit beat out of them before they're sent back to their Apartheid wonderland. Feck them. However when it extends to people who were not directly involved, it becomes a problem.
Israeli clubs shouldn't even be participating anyways under the current circumstances, if the West had any semblance of a backbone.
I personally entirely blame the Dutch authorities and law enforcement who:
1. Passively watched the Maccabi Ultras singing genocidal chants and tear or burn of the Palestinian flag without taking any action or trying to dampen what was predictably going to be a shit show.
2. Didn't plan for a strict separation of Israeli fans from the rest of the crowd, from start to finish. And I mean by that, from the airport back to the airport. Hell, it's been done for much less than that.
By trying to get a response from me talking about October 7th?
That is him trying to wind me up.
WUM
He's honestly not. If you read his posts as regularly as I do, you'd know.