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You have a lot of optimism regarding the ability of the American liberal to learn from this.

If Israel wins:

The movie will be titled just "Gaza" in capitals with the traditional movie-poster-with-a-bunch-of-faces-looking-in-different-directions. At the beginning of the film will be the usual montage of Islamic life with an orange filter on the screen. The events of October 7th will be displayed graphically - Hamas militants storming out of the fence and shooting unarmed civilians at a festival with peace signs and slogans, with not an IDF tank or gun in sight. The only deaths displayed will be civilians, especially mothers with their babies cradled in their hands, in villages who are woken up by gunfire and huddle in places; some are found by Hamas terrorists and killed mercilessly. The implication will be that Israel never actually had an entire military apparatus surrounding Gaza for miles, the only settlements in the envelope are peaceful villages where Israelis have been living for hundreds of years, and the army is completely absent. All the traditional Islamic terrorist tropes played up to eleven. Kristen Stewart and her co-workers react horrified to the scenes going on from what footage they can see, and start yelling at a heavily armed Hamas official who works in the health ministry who knocks her to the ground and threatens her to remain silent, at gunpoint. The leaders of Hamas are depicted doing the regular evil chuckles.

Eventually the Israeli army arrives. Attempts are given to treat Palestinians with tenderness and love, but are rebuffed by Hamas terrorists secretly in the midst of civilians. This confirms to the IDF that there is no choice; the Netanyahu actor sighs heavily and gives a monologue or public speech about how every other method has been abandoned and that the only option available will be to bomb the Gaza Strip. At the end he starts crying because of the things that Hamas has forced him to do.

The bombing starts and is generally underrepresented in scale, though suffering is depicted. There's a dramatic scene where Kristen Stewart is on a balcony watching the Israeli planes drop bombs against the night sky, the flashes of light twinkling in her glasses, and she mutters "This didn't need to happen..." The Hamas leadership decides to launch a specially designed missile that they've spent years perfecting at the hospital, before Hamas propagandists blame it on Israel. Kristen Stewart has been filming this, however, and gives the footage to the Israelis to show that it was Hamas all along, proving her journalistic integrity.

Israeli raids into the Gaza Strip start - a few vehicles are blown up by Hamas but the overall picture is that of utter victory, real American war movie hours. Kristen Stewart by this point has moved down to the southern Gaza Strip according to the Israeli command. There is obviously no bombing of civilian convoys moving south depicted. Most everybody moves there, and those that don't are depicted as terrorist sympathizers who are at odds with the rest of the Palestinians. There are arguments where sentences like "You're not a real Palestinian if you won't move south with us!" etc. After a dicey period where supplies almost run out, the Israeli government can bear it no longer (Biden or similar: "It doesn't matter how bad Hamas is - we can't let innocent Palestinians die of thirst!") and decides to let humanitarian aid through the border.

The final act of the movie shows the Palestinian tunnels being destroyed, the leadership being captured by Israel, and Kristen Stewart and most of her team (she loses one member to a Hamas militant, no journalist deaths are caused by Israel) escape via a helicopter. The Palestinians leave flowers at the feet of the Israeli columns that march through as thanks for liberating them from Hamas, and they smile in return.

I hate that you're correct and I wish you were not correct.

Fuck you. I know you are right but I hate you for it.