• zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    The Israeli government sees Palestinians as subhuman and has the power to actually support that policy.

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        9 months ago

        There’s a shocker – using human shields increases civilian casualties. Tonight at 8 – water is wet.

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          9 months ago

          End apartheid. Bombing a contained area full of civilians will increase civilian casualties, as well.

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                Have you read the IDF warning to the citizens of Gaza? I find it pretty unlikely, else you wouldn’t make a claim as plainly false as “there is nowhere to run”. This particular warning is about bombing a very specific region of Gaza that has a large number of terrorist tunnels in it. There are plenty of places “for them to run”, as you put it – quite literally anywhere other than that specific spot.

                Regarding Hamas’ origins, while this story makes for an excellent straw man, it’s not particularly relevant to the question of deceptive statistics. It’s also some remarkably dishonest journalism – it manages to go from “an Israeli official admitted to giving some money to Hamas” to implying that Israel essentially started the organization. All the while, it very conveniently neglects to include any sort of information that might give a sense of scale. Not to mention, it conveniently neglects to mention that all the rival factions to Hamas were also terrorist groups at the time (Fatah only renounced terrorism after Israeli support of Hamas, and the PLO continues to engage in acts of terror to this day).

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                  Gaza is without power. How exactly is the warning for this oh-so-humanitarian bombing campaign being broadcast? And you think the residents of the area will have the discipline to form up and get out successfully? Israel is bombing civilians, knows they are going to bomb civilians, and intends to bomb civilians and this “warning” is ass-covering so they can deny their murderous intent later.

                  And Israel’s support for Hamas has been ongoing.

                  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-11/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-needed-a-strong-hamas/0000018b-1e9f-d47b-a7fb-bfdfd8f30000 (archive link)

                  But the deep roots of the feasibility of the murderous assault by the Islamist nationalist phalangists from the prison that is Gaza on Israeli citizens should actually be sought in an earlier period of Benjamin Netanyahu’s time in office as prime minister – prior to his criminal trial and his alliance with nationalist Kahanists and the judicial coup, back when he was considered “level-headed” and “rational” and “responsible.”

                  That’s because since he took office as prime minister a second time in 2009, that same Netanyahu developed and advanced a destructive, warped political doctrine that held that strengthening Hamas at the expense of the Palestinian Authority would be good for Israel.

                  The purpose of the doctrine was to perpetuate the rift between Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. That would preserve the diplomatic paralysis and forever remove the “danger” of negotiations with the Palestinians over the partition of Israel into two states – on the argument that the Palestinian Authority doesn’t represent all the Palestinians.

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            I’m a little curious where you saw that in my comment. I do think it’s a little telling that your first response to me pointing out the (relatively uncontroversial) fact that Hamas attempts to maximize civilian casualties by using human shields is to ask “do you think Israel is perfect?”

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              Because you are begging the question by making the assumption that the civilian deaths are the fault of hamas and not the reckless violence being perpetrated against Palestinians by Israel.

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                Well, it’s an absolutely indisputable fact that many of the civilian deaths are the fault of Hamas. The sources I’ve linked show that beyond any doubt. I have not claimed, and will not ever claim, that 100% of the civilian deaths are solely the fault of Hamas. I do, however, think that any sort of argument relying on comparing death counts is made inherently invalid by the fact that Hamas does its best to maximize those numbers.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t understand, are you saying the Canadian government is a terrorist organization?