• BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, they should really stop killing their own people. Over 30,000 Palestinians, many of them children, dead at the hands of Hamas!

    Good thing Israel’s there to stop this horrible genocide and restore order.

    /s

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        2 months ago

        “Mr. President, the terrorists have taken hostages. What should we do?” “Bomb the building.” -A psychopath

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          2 months ago

          I’m not in charge of Israeli military policy, and im not here to justify their actions. But maybe Hamas should have considered the extent of retaliation when they started a war with them by murdering 1200 innocents.

          That was my whole point. By starting a war with Israel, they clearly had very little to zero consideration for the Palestinian people.

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              2 months ago

              And many of the civilians were killed by the IDF, not Hamas. We don’t have an exact figure because Israel refuses any investigation into the matter.

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            2 months ago

            You are literally justifying their actions. Justifying the murder of well over 30 thousand.

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              2 months ago

              No, my argument is that if Hamas actually cared about “their people”, they wouldn’t have started a war against a much stronger enemy who has proven to have very little care for causing civilian loss.

              I’m not justifying Israel’s actions

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                2 months ago

                You are putting the responsibility for those murders entirely on Hamas rather than the government currently perpetrating them, thus justifying that government’s actions. You could have just as easily made your opening comment, “Man, if only Israel cared about international law.” Please stop insulting my intelligence.

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        2 months ago

        Honestly, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if, in the inevitable Israel Nuremberg Trials, it comes out that the Israeli government intentionally instigated or even carried out the October 7 attack in order to generate sympathy and as a pretext for its genocide.

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            2 months ago

            Like how? I mean do you and people upvoting you really think there will be some trial for Israel leaders? Right now we in the situation where military support for them is increasing. And the tendency is it will increase further. What do you imagine might change?

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              I don’t think there will be a trial. I just think it’s plausible, but not extremely likely, that Israel’s fascist government would be willing to plan or at least support an attack on its own citizens in order to obtain a mandate to take Palestine

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          2 months ago

          They might have let it happen intentionally and pulled Gaza troops to the West Bank beforehand.

          But the way israel went full mask off Nazi mode and threw its entire global reputation away over the last 7 months does not indicate that everything is going according to plan.