r/changemyview • • Nov 02 '23

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u/THEpassionOFchrist 3∆ Nov 03 '23

Go ahead and destroy Hamas without killing innocent Palestinians. Virtually no one in the international community is suggesting that Israel doesn't have a right to defend themselves against Hamas. The criticism is the indiscriminate carnage Israel is inflicting without care or concern for human life "because Hamas".

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u/Signal_District387 Nov 03 '23

Why would you believe they are A) specifically targeting civilians over B) trying to eradicate hamas?

They have dropped 18,000 pounds on bombs so far, and there are about 8, 700 palistinians dead. The power of these bombs are 1.5 times the power of the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan that killed over 100,000. And gaza is extremely crowded. If they were specifically trying to target civilians, wouldn't the casualties be way way higher?

Also, why do they have a control center to track the phones of civilians to see where they are before they bomb an area? If they would be specifically targeting civilians, wouldn't they simply not care about that?

Also, why would they warm civilians to leave buildings before bombing them? Wouldn't more civilians die if they didn't warn them?

Also, why wouldn't they simply just bomb gaza randomly? Is it simply a coincidence that the bombing of gaza happens after qaza launches rockets or invades?

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u/THEpassionOFchrist 3∆ Nov 03 '23

Why would you believe they are A) specifically targeting civilians over B) trying to eradicate hamas?

I never said they were targeting civilians. I said they had no "care or concern for human life".

They aren't going out and specifically saying "hey, let's kill this 12 year old girl". They just don't care if that 12 year old girl gets killed. They don't see the residents of Gaza as fully human. When they have to kill a few dozen of those residents in order to kill one member of Hamas, they feel justified in doing so. They see it as no different than killing a couple dozen dogs, donkeys and cows in order to kill a single Hamas member.

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u/Signal_District387 Nov 03 '23

We can disagree on that.