• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    Just lovely how everybody is forgetting that Israel is responsible for that.

    Everyone can always blame someone else, especially in this conflict. It’s time for Israel to grow up and take responsibility for its actions. They have caused harm, anger, and hatred by using terrorism (fear and violence) to enforce their rule over people. Somehow we (the US and most of the west) provide them with resources and weapons though. How fucked up is that?

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      Then by that logic it’s fair game for native Americans to start cleansing all European bloodlines in the United States? As a Latino person, I can go into any southwest state and start killing my neighbors because their ancestors “caused harm, anger, and hatred by using terrorism (fear and violence) to enforce their rule over people”?

      How are you tankies this fucking dumb?

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        But they’re STILL causing them harm and anger and using terrorism, right now, actively, even before the 7th of october, it’s been ongoing for over 75 years, it hasn’t stopped once, its been happening everyday in Gaza and the West Bank (where Hamas isn’t), besides the fact that the occupation power very explicitly stated its intentions of basically deleting every single Palestinian, even before the 7th of october.

        other than the starvation and thirst they’re forcing onto them, they keep bombing civilian buildings, they bombed multiple medical centers including a hospital where over 1000 people (injured civilians from the occupation’s bombings), over half of which were children, toddlers, and babies died.

        and to top all of that off, from https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml

        Article 8, section 2.b: 2.b.i. Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;

        2.b.ii. Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives;

        israel is committing war crimes and being praised and supported for it.

        nothing justifies the intentional or unintentional killing of any civilians, children, women, or men, EVEN IF THE ENEMY WAS KILLING CIVILIANS TOO!

        Let’s also not forget that israel is one of the largest and most powerful military entities in the world, supported by even larger military powers, going against this tiny patch of land called Gaza, where the people there have been continually oppressed for over 75 years, Hamas’s homemade mortars dont do nearly as much damage as israel’s US-made targetted missiles, and it’s obvious from the fact that no building has been brought down in israel by Hamas, while Gaza is being basically flattened as we speak.

        Do some research before posting online.

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        No, dude. I’m not saying what Hamas is doing is “fair game”. I’m saying Israel has a responsibility in it, and they aren’t handling it well. In the past, I totally understand native Americans killing settlers, especially on their land that was promised to them in treaties that they agreed to when moving. Present day, this stuff isn’t happening. If anything, we’re trying to make up for those actions that we now see as a mistake. In present day Israel though, they’re actively performing those actions that cause the inhabitants to feel the need to fight back.

        Also, not a tanky. Not everyone who disagrees with Zionism is anti-semitic or a tanky. Grow up and try to come up with an actual reasonable argument.

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      Hamas has launched in the realm of 7000 rockets at Israel civilians since October 7. But hey, keep blaming it all on Israel. Lets make antisemitism cool again, you are doing your part already.

      And as always: Propose an alternative to how Israel should defend itself instead. Still haven’t heard anybody give one and it has been weeks.

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        Why did you start counting at October 7th? Palestine, Hamas, and Israel have existed much longer and been in conflict much longer.

        Last I saw, which was before this conflict, Israel has killed 27 (I think, maybe 23 or something around there) Palestinians for every Israeli killed.

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        Commiting genocide against a civilian population is not self defense. How can you read an article like the OP and just be completely empty inside? How broken are you?

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          Commiting genocide against a civilian population is not self defense.

          For one, they don’t.

          And as always: Propose an alternative to how Israel should defend itself instead. Still haven’t heard anybody give one and it has been weeks.

          But keep listening to that Hamas propaganda it’s totally not rotting your brain away.

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            An alternative? There are infinite. They can start cooperating and make a good will gesture of returning occupied lands back to the Palestinian people. They can stop colonizing and murdering innocent civilians (which isn’t only just now happening, it’s constant in occupied lands). They can loosen restriction on travel between Gaza and Israel.

            The solution is to improve relations with the people. Attacking them and killing civilians only causes more hate, which causes more violence. It isn’t defence. It’s genocide. They get Hamas to attack and they get to kill more Palestinians.

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              They tried that, didn’t work, each time they were meet with more Hamas terrorism. What’s your second suggestion from the pool of infinite alternative?

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                They never tried that. They have been constantly expanding colonies and murdering civilians in occupied lands. The whole nation started with just some Jews colonizing the territory, and it was made official after that when they knew there was no stopping it (not that they would anyway). They did reduce their harm for a period, but they never really tried to do good.

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                  They never tried that.

                  They did, in the Gaza Strip which has no colonies, self rule and the 1967 borders. In the mid 2000s. They evicted every Jew from the Gaza strip

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                  What’s your second suggestion from the pool of infinite alternative? Or are you already out of ideas?

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            Isreal is indiscriminately bombing civilian/Palestinian population centers and diving people out of their homes.*

            What Isreal is doing absolutely falls under the category of genocide.

            Kill civilians is indefensible.

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              Isreal is indiscriminately bombing civilian/Palestinian population centers and diving people out of their homes.*

              A 48 hour WW2 era artillery barrages would flatten the Gaza Strip. Believing that Israel is “indiscriminately bombing” the strip requires you to believe that they’re the most incompetent military force to have ever walked the planet.

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                When I say “indiscriminate” I mean “disregard for civilian casualties” not “random bombings”.

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                  They clearly have a regard for civilian casualties. That’s why they haven’t hit some mosques, schools and other buildings that are known to be seats of Hamas’ power.

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                    They clearly have a regard for civilian casualties.

                    People who bomb civilian areas do not care about civilians casualties.

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              Isreal is indiscriminately bombing civilian population centers and diving out people based on ethnicity.

              These two things are mutually exclusive

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                You’re "um ackshually"ing genocide. Reconsider your life.

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                They’ve been bombing civilian centers that they know are predominantly of Palestinian ethnicity.

                They’ve been evicting people from their homes based on ethnicity. The law gives Isrealis preferences in land disputes.

                And now they’re telling everyone in Gaza to abandon their homes.

                These are three different actions.

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            Would you prefer we call what Israel is doing ethnic cleansing instead?