• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    Hamas has thousands of “command centers” it being a very top heavy organization and all. Its estimated for every Hamas soldier there’s 10,000 managers - many of them women and toddlers - unanimously authorizing every war crime committed by Hamas.

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    I don’t understand why people believe them.

    When Russia bombed civilian churches, apartments, hospitals, and said they were being used as military command centers and such, nobody believed them, it was an obvious lie.

    But when Israel says it the whole world just says “Wow makes perfect sense, good job!”

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      Israel put up this whole thing about Tunnels. The thing is, Hamas does use tunnels. But Israel took that as an excuse to bomb anything that even looked like a tunnel on a drone video feed. With 2,000 pound bombs because of course every tunnel in Gaza is obviously super fortified.

      The problem with that logic is that Gaza did have modern infrastructure. That means basements, under ground maintenance tunnels, or even just a shelter because Israel bombs Gaza about as often as a Tornado hits in the Midwest. With nothing more than a “hatch” or “tunnel entrance” as evidence, it’s 100% war crime territory. But that requires people to actually think.

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      Most people aren’t critical of the majority of the media they consume. If you live in a Western country, chances are that the media you get your news from frames Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as illegal and immoral, and Israel’s invasion of Gaza as legitimate self-defense.

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      Cognitive dissonance is front and center when people criticize Russia but not Israel.

      Israel has killed more civilians in 2 months than Russia has killed in 2 years, to put things into perspective.

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        Hi, I’m a Jew. I also absolutely hate Netanyahu and the entire disgusting coalition of Likud, Tkuma, Otzma Yehudit and all their Kahanist allies.

        It’s not anti-semitic to hate the government of the state of Israel, as much as they might like to pretend that the terms are synonymous.

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            Yes and yes, imho. The only humane way forward is an end to the killing on both sides and a diplomatic solution. Whether that’s a one, two or five state solution doesn’t matter to me, that’s up to the people negotiating.

            That diplomacy and negotiation feels a very long way away at the moment though.

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          What does this have to do with his comment comparing Israel to Nazis and Netanyahu to Hitler?

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            Honest question: as the Nazis were an explicitly Christian group, does hating the Nazi ideology make you anti-Christian?

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            Not all Germans (probably not even most) supported the National Socialists, but when the ones that didn’t were too cowardly to fight them getting into power, they all get painted with the same brush in the end. Germany as a whole was making reparations for WW2, and the civilian population bore it’s own level of blame for letting that happen in their country.

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        Criticism of Israel ≠ Jew hatred.

        Unless you mean to say that, for example, every Jew in JVP is committing Jew Hatred on a daily basis.

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        History is tolerated. And I’m talking about Israel no Jews. Maybe another few years back to school could help?

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        Israel is an ethno-state, people fighting on behalf of Israel want to eradicate Palestinian people. This doesn’t have anything to do with Jewish people in general. To conflate Israel with Jewish people is itself antisemitic.

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    National Post: Director of a Gaza hospital says clinics were used by Hamas fighters: Ahmed Kahlot tells Israeli interrogators he was recruited into the terror group as a lieutenant colonel

    The director of a Gaza hospital admitted to Israeli interrogators that he had been recruited by Hamas to help turn the Strip’s medical centers into military facilities, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) announced on Tuesday.

    In a video released by the Shin Bet, Ahmed Kahlot, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, said, “I was recruited to Hamas in 2010 at the rank of lieutenant colonel. There are employees in the hospital who are military operatives of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam [Hamas’s “military branch”]—doctors, brothers, paramedics, clerks, staff members.”

    Kahlot added, “They hide in hospitals because they believe that a hospital is a safe place. They will not be harmed if they are inside a hospital.”

    Israel security forces arrested Kahlot on Dec. 12.

    During the interrogation, Kahlot describes how Hamas used hospitals and ambulances to hide operatives, launch military activity, transport members of terror squads and even deliver a kidnapped Israeli soldier.

    “Hamas has offices inside the hospitals. There are places for senior officials, they also brought a kidnapped soldier there. There is a designated place for investigations, internal security and special security. They all have private phone lines inside the hospital,” he said.

    Regarding the kidnapped soldier, Kahlot explained that “Hamas uses private ambulances. It has a different color, and no license plate. It was used to bring the kidnapped soldier and to transfer bodies. It comes and goes and does not take down the wounded.”

    Kahlot told the interrogator: “Once I begged them to take a wounded man to the Indonesian hospital, for healing, for treatment. They refused. Their mission is more important.”

    Hamas’s leaders, he continued, “are cowards. They left us in the field while they hide…. They destroyed us.”

    Palestinian doctors are not trustworthy because many of them are members of the Hamas terrorist organisation.