when palestinians protested peacefully the way liberal zionists always say they should the IDF had snipers fire into the crowd with stated orders to cripple as many of them as they could
This is absurd. If Hamas hadn’t decided to make Gaza into a center for terrorism, funded by Iran and Qatar, with thousands of miles of tunnels for terrorism and missiles to fire into Israel (instead of building infrastructure for Palestinians) there would be no reason for Israel to defend itself.