• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wtf is wrong with people. The initial Hamas attack was bad. But Israel is now basically bulldozing Gaza and trying to turn it into a pule of rubble.

    In what world does that make sense? They don’t need U.S. aid or anybody else’s help doing that. We should be internationally condemning what they’re doing right now. Instead we are offering to give them money?

    Am I crazy for thinking this is far far beyond a sane response. They have literally been killing children.

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      1 year ago

      This isn’t a response, it’s what they wanted to do for over half a century now. Killing Palestine or shoving it to nearby countries was always the plan, Israel was just waiting for an excuse.

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        I think it’s a mistake to pretend like this has been a monolithic response for Israel. It’s a little telling when people pretend like every action by the current government is and represents all of Israel for the last 50 years. This is the actions of an extreme radically right government. Netanyahu and his far right extremist allies have set this up and very likely been behind part of the entire debacle. For this reason as you suggest. However we should not pretend like his radicals have been running the entire country for its entire history. Anyone paying attention should know that these religious radicals have been at war with their own country just as much as the palestinians.

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          What about all rubble in the West Bank? The settlements for more foreigners? The harassment everyday; especially in Jerusalem? This isn’t just the last 50 years, it’s been over 70…

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      Right. Insane. Even if they remove Gaza and all the people there from the face of this earth, all they will have accomplished is decades more coming back at them. The people of Israel are less safe than ever. Hamas did the same to their people as clearly they too are all less safe. When will this madness stop? This is disgusting and a worrying sign as we enter the AI age, that humanity just has not grown the fuck up.

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    1 year ago

    All in the name of defense of course. With the worlds most moral army, backed by the world’s biggest blank cheque, how could this be anything but self defense. Oh and fuck those journalists and their families.

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    Two years from now there will be no Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank and the world won’t do shit about it

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    1 year ago

    A few hundred from the total amount of dead civilians in Ukraine.

    But Russian killing bad, Israeli killing good apparently.

    Fuck this empire

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      Do you think terrorist means attacking civilians? Usually terrorism had the purpose of inciting fear on the larger side in an asymmetric conflict. Israel seems to be doing this moreso to get rid of the population, or at least to get at Hamas with absurdly low regard for civilians. Rather than making the population fearful.

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    Israel announced right at the start that its target is to eliminate Hamas and PIJ.

    Since there are:

    1. About 30,000-40,000 Hamas members in the Al-Qassam Brigades and
    2. About 6,000 members in the PIJ and
    3. Assuming 1 civilian casualty per 3 combative casualties

    Then unless something substantial changes, the death toll is expected to rise to around 50k-60k . This is really just the beginning.