• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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      Israel has been a pushover? This is the mindset that will keep this insurgency alive forever.

      I heard an ex MI6 head cite some numbers on the current state of Hamas. They said that about 60% of the current fighters were orphans from previous wars. There’s gonna a whole lot more orphans from this one.

      Israel is assured unsafe from another Oct 7 at least for a decade after this war, probably more. People won’t stop fighting when they have nothing left to lose. This expectation that these people would do something different than what you would when your families are killed is delusional.

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        For even more fun, add in the children of Gaza wanting to escalate upward in the same way as Israel did and Iran becoming a nuclear power. If those two things ever combine things can get very ugly.

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          Are you arguing that Israel should kill children?

          That’s not how I read it.

          My interpretation is that Israel shouldn’t be creating more orphans who will have a lifelong desire for vengeance.

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            I fully agree, but doesn’t this argument go the other way as well, when children grow up to Hamas attacking cities since decades?

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              Of course it does. But I think what matters is the magnitudes and what do every one of those children have to lose. If you want security, you have to move to fewer and fewer children having this experience and to more of them having something to lose. Hamas made this equation markedly worse on Oct 7. Israel’s leadership made way worse thereafter.

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      If a neighbouring state blew up your house, killing your children and your wife, would you be more or less likely to commit violent acts against them?

      This will not keep Israel safe. It will only create further generations that hate them.

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          So you blame Palestina for existing and being constantly under attack by terrorists… “how dare you fight back!” man cant make this shit up

          That argument works both ways

          (Even if you oppose the classification of Israel as “terrorists” - although fair given the definition - replace terrorist in that sentence with “Israel” and the sentiment is exactly the same)

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              The Palestinian state is recognised by the majority of countries in the world (currently 145 out of 193, and growing, like recently by Spain, Norway, Slovenia and Ireland).

              I suggest you look up UN resolution 181 and see what parts of “The British Mandate for Palestina” (interesting last word in that name) were actually given to Israel, and which parts were left to the “Palestinian arab population”. You’ll find that Israel is occupying large areas of land that the British did not actually give to them.

              Just because Israels propaganda does not want a Palestinian state to exist, does not make it so.

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              Palestine is an Israeli autonomous region? Wild that someone would come right out with the colonialist revisionism, but okay.

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          So you blame Israel for existing

          The process that brought the state of Israel into existence caused a lot of animosity among the population who were previously there.

          Add to that decades of Israel displacing more people by annexing land for their “settlements” and its not hard to imagine why there would be resentment and anger against the Israeli government.

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          If i was in 1947, i would definitely oppose the creation of a state regadless of religion or race by recent emigrants. Now the situation is different, i just want gaza and the west bank to be completely liberated. The goal was always to colonize the whole region based on the first prime minsiter of israel before the 1948 war “after the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine”

          Zionist colonization must either be terminated or carried out against the wishes of the native population. This colonization can, therefore, be continued and make progress only under the protection of a power independent of the native population - an iron wall, which will be in a position to resist the pressure to the native population. This is our policy towards the Arabs…"Vladimir Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, 1923.

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              Always fun how Israel apologists fall back to “you’re an antisemite” once they know they have no valid argument left.

              You’re devaluating “anti-Semitism” by misusing it, and as a result you are hurting Jewish people. Furthermore, by equating Israel to Judaism, you’re propagating that any misbehaviour by the Israeli government reflects the will of the Jewish people, further damaging the Jewish people worldwide.

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                  “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

                  This is the working definition of antisemitism as per the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Criticising the Israeli government for behaviour they exhibit does not fall under this definition, and therefore we can’t be “antisemitic as hell. By definition”.

                  Stop equating Israel to the Jewish people, they are not the same.

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              Everyone is an anti simit why are all of you jew haters trying to stop the state of Israel from committing genocide your simitisim is showing you’re basically Hitler for wanting to prevent a genocide why are you so simit

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      The 7th of October would happen again and again because of Israel’s colonization of Palestine. Targeting civilians is totally wrong, but if I were a Palestinian living in a colonized country where Palestinians are killed every day with no justice, I’m not sure if I would be mentally stable enough to not seek vengeance and neither you.

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        So what will stop October 7ths from happening again and again? If Isreal pulled out of Gaza and the West bank entirely Hamas would decide that everyone lives in peace?

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          Hamas wouldn’t, but Hamas would lose power. The reason they’re in power is because they aimed to fight Israel (and because they suspended elections once in power). If both Gaza and the West Bank came under Palestinian Authority control, Fatah would be in charge (at least until whatever election).

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          An independent palestine should has it’s own army that is not hamas and fight them if they refuse to dissolve. They would also lose most of the palestinian support if they reduse . I also think the responsibles of the 7 of october should be held accountable in an independent palestine

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          Hasbara has become so lazy. They used to write shittons of stuff making everyone tired to argue with their bs but this is just a lazy way of lying I’m lacking words for it.

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          Nah, by definition, it’s a genocide. Exterminating an entire people is genocide.

          So you’re not a coward, just an ignorant supporter of genocide.

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      Mod hat: I do not agree with this comment either, but that is not an excuse to break our civility rule. If you want to talk about why you think this person is incorrect, do it without insults.

      Edit: I should add that this applied to OP as well, who has been banned for multiple civility rule violations.

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        User hat:

        You deleted a comment I made because you said it was incivil (not going to repeat it, but it’s in the modlog)

        Was it because I pointed out that they were denying a genocide?

        That’s the only thing that was remotely personal, and if that breaks the rules is it acceptable to instead just link sources explaining how Israel is committing a genocide?

        Genocidal denial is just a pretty big deal in my eyes, so I want to know how mods are ok with addressing it. I felt that I was following the sidebar by commenting on the argument and not the user, but apparently I misunderstood something.

        I wouldn’t have mentioned it, by their comment denying genocide is literally just a few comments down this chain…

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          I love how the user you called that immediately proved they were one and wouldn’t listen.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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          You are free to explain why someone is denying genocide. You are not free to make that accusation because you do not know the reasoning behind their statements. People have the right to disagree that something is happening and be wrong. People also have a right to be ignorant about a subject and make ignorant statements. You, as a user, have a right to tell them why they are wrong or why their statement is not true.

          You do not have the right to accuse someone of supporting genocide unless they are making a statement that calls for violence. That is against the rules. The comment you responded to did not call for violence.

          I do not agree with their claim that genocide is not happening. People denied the Holocaust was happening while it was happening. That doesn’t mean they would have marched Jews into the ovens themselves if they had the chance.

          If you disagree with my moderation, you are free to report it to the admins.

          And that is the end of this discussion.

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            You are free to explain why someone is denying genocide. You are not free to make that accusation because you do not know the reasoning behind their statements. People have the right to disagree that something is happening and be wrong.

            So all the people (including YourPrivatHater) who accuse others of being antisemitic are also breaking this rule, aren’t they?

            They do not know the reasoning behind the statement that prompted the accusation and it is very uncivil to say that. How can that be different?

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              Their posts accusing people of being antisemitic were deleted and they were banned, so yes. They also broke that rule.

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                I just reported two more. Lots more coming your way soon I’m sure, lol

                Edit: sorry you’re right, I think I can just still see them on sync

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              You are free to go to the modlog and see the comment that was deleted and see that it was clearly not a civil comment.

              You can also see the many other uncivil comments that got removed, including many of OP’s comments.

              Edit: OP was also banned while the person complaining was not.

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                I’ve read it a few times and honestly agree with OP that only that part reads as uncivil so I am confused

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                  If you think “just casually denying genocide?” is a civil way to respond to someone, I guess you will continue to be disappointed.

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      Exactly. And why would they end the war without getting everything they demand from the other side? They aren’t losing, Hamas is losing. People don’t seem to understand the concept of leverage in negotiations. If Hamas wants to end the war, they need to completely surrender and return all the hostages