• fosforus@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Commiting genocide against a civilian population is not self defense.

    Only Hamas is doing that, though.

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      1 year ago

      Isreal is indiscriminately bombing civilian/Palestinian population centers and diving people out of their homes.*

      What Isreal is doing absolutely falls under the category of genocide.

      Kill civilians is indefensible.

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        Isreal is indiscriminately bombing civilian/Palestinian population centers and diving people out of their homes.*

        A 48 hour WW2 era artillery barrages would flatten the Gaza Strip. Believing that Israel is “indiscriminately bombing” the strip requires you to believe that they’re the most incompetent military force to have ever walked the planet.

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          When I say “indiscriminate” I mean “disregard for civilian casualties” not “random bombings”.

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            They clearly have a regard for civilian casualties. That’s why they haven’t hit some mosques, schools and other buildings that are known to be seats of Hamas’ power.

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              They clearly have a regard for civilian casualties.

              People who bomb civilian areas do not care about civilians casualties.

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        Isreal is indiscriminately bombing civilian population centers and diving out people based on ethnicity.

        These two things are mutually exclusive

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          1 year ago

          You’re "um ackshually"ing genocide. Reconsider your life.

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          They’ve been bombing civilian centers that they know are predominantly of Palestinian ethnicity.

          They’ve been evicting people from their homes based on ethnicity. The law gives Isrealis preferences in land disputes.

          And now they’re telling everyone in Gaza to abandon their homes.

          These are three different actions.

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      1 year ago

      Would you prefer we call what Israel is doing ethnic cleansing instead?

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        That’s probably what they would like to do in their fantasies – make Gazans gtfo from that general area – but given their inefficiency of doing it, I don’t really know what’s going on. You don’t “ethnically cleanse” a rapidly growing population of 2 million by killing a few thousand here and there.

        Their birth rate is about 24/1000, so about 50000 new children are born there every year.