• Dearth@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        80% of Hamas has been orphaned by Israel. Israel has destroyed nearly all the schools. Israel has been starving the Gazans for decades

        Israel tries Palestinian children in military court for decades, without parental or legal representation.

        But sure buddy go off on your propaganda

        • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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          5 months ago

          Are you saying that they are not using child soldiers? It seems to me like you’re just making excuses for them using child soldiers.

          • Dearth@lemmy.world
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            5 months ago

            Of course im justifying their use of child soldiers. What im wondering is how YOU identify a soldier of Hamas vs a citizen of Palestine defending their home from a military invasion. Because last i checked there are no uniform factories in palestine

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        5 months ago

        Got it, so that makes it alright to kill 30,000 civilians who aren’t child soldiers.

        I’m glad you reset my moral compass.

        • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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          5 months ago

          How exactly do you fight a terrorist organization who uses children as both soldiers and human shields without any sort of civilian casualties?

          You realize this style of warfare that Hamas has chosen is specifically designed to lead to civilian deaths right?

          They could all line up on an open area and fight Israel soldier to soldier, but they choose not to.

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            5 months ago

            How exactly do you fight a terrorist organization who uses children as both soldiers and human shields without any sort of civilian casualties?

            Probably with more nuance than bombing entire neighborhoods…

            Seriously, there is absolutely no possible ethical excuse for what Israel is doing. Right now the IDF is pretty indistinguishable from the SS. Genocide is genocide and Israel has come all the way from victim to perpetrator. The irony and reality of it is making the rest of the world sick, the only question is, why isn’t it doing the same to the people of Israel?

            • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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              5 months ago

              See the problem is, you don’t know how to do it without injuring civilians, and neither does any other country fighting against terrorists using this style of warfare. The whole playbook for them is to make it impossible to fight without wholesale slaughter. Israel has chosen that option here rather than letting them continue.

              They are far from the first country to do so.

              The US killed around 50,000 Afghani civilians as direct retaliation for 9/11 in a bomb all the shit campaign against the Taliban. Did it make Americans sick enough to stop it?

              The US killed a few hundred thousand civilian Iraqis during that 2003 invasion, and it turns out the entire premise for the invasion was false. Did it make Americans sick enough to stop it?

              FFS, the US nuked two Japanese cities… and the public was totally onboard at the time.

              The Japanese have done it themselves to China and Korea. China has done it to a bunch of different minorities now. Clearly the Germans did it. Russia has done it. The British and Spanish have done it.

              Civilian populations of the offending country rarely have a problem with it, that hasn’t started until very recently in history.

              So why would Israelis be sick of killing 30,000 Palestinians in response to an attack that killed over 1000 Israeli Civilians (and where they kidnapped hostages)?

              You may not like this answer, but it’s still correct.

              • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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                5 months ago

                See the problem is, you don’t know how to do it without injuring civilians,

                Fucking diplomacy.

                Israel is being like a five year old… Learn to use your words, you’ll get better outcomes.

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                5 months ago

                Let’s say you wiped out all the Palestinians. Do you believe that results in peace? Do you remember what motivated Osama Bin Laden? Do you think the rest of the Arab world would be at peace with Israel?

                • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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                  5 months ago

                  The rest of the arab world started the fight with Israel. Five countries invaded them the day after the British protectorate left.

                  So no, there won’t be peace. Religion is a hell of a drug.

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            5 months ago

            I would suggest that the problem is all the non-soldier children getting killed.

            I’m not sure why you don’t seem to think so.