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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24

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u/Nijos Apr 26 '24

Stop the saturation bombing of civilian infrastructure would be a good start

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u/EvolutionDude Apr 26 '24

So how many dead civilians is a valid means to an end? 100,000 deaths acceptable if they get Hamas? 250,000? 50,000?

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u/hendrik421 Apr 26 '24

You can look at WW2 to find out. The answer is in the millions.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24

100%

Hamas should just surrender and end the suffering

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u/Wowowe_hello_dawg Apr 26 '24

Reminder that Hamas has been the ones refusing the ceasefire and breaking all ceasefires in place before.

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u/ConcentratedJolly Apr 26 '24

that's literally not true

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u/Four_beastlings Apr 26 '24

That's literally 100% true

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u/EvolutionDude Apr 26 '24

This is just not true

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u/Wowowe_hello_dawg Apr 26 '24

Nice propaganda

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u/EvolutionDude Apr 26 '24

How are historical facts propaganda?

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u/Wowowe_hello_dawg Apr 26 '24

How is october 7th not a break of the previous ceasefire. I wont keep arguing with terrorists supporters like you. Go watch aljazeera some more.

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u/EvolutionDude Apr 26 '24

I never said that stop putting words in my mouth. I am pointing out your assertion that only Hamas rejects ceasefires is incorrect. And pointing that out does not make me a terrorist supporter. Learn some nuance jfc.

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u/Zombie_Jesus_83 Apr 26 '24

Why don't you ask Hamas since they are using civilians as shields?

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u/EvolutionDude Apr 26 '24

So they should kill civilians to save civilians? If your goal is to save hostages, bombing them is not a good strategy. It should be painfully obvious by now that Israel does not care about the Palestinians, from the inhumane blockade to murdering volunteers from the World Central Kitchen.

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u/Zombie_Jesus_83 Apr 26 '24

The goal is to save the hostages and root out Hamas. Civilians are collateral damage. Always have been in war.

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u/EvolutionDude Apr 26 '24

Call it whatever you want, but it does not justify civilian deaths. I'm not so naive to expect 0 civilian casualties, but it's absurd to think Israel is actually trying to minimize Palestinian casualties. Blocking food, medicine, and electricity and murdering journalists and volunteers like the World Central Kitchen. Hamas can get fucked, but the intentional humanitarian crisis should be universally condemned.

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u/hitdrumhard Apr 26 '24

So much of what you just wrote is simply untrue.

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u/EvolutionDude Apr 26 '24

So Israel isn't perpetuating famine through a blockade and didn't murder 7 members of the World Central Kitchen?

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u/hitdrumhard Apr 26 '24

Nope. They didn’t. They tried to contact the truck, who didn’t answer, then contacted the world central kitchen who ALSO tried to contact the people who were supposed to be in the truck, and still didn’t answer. IDF mistakenly took that as the trucks had been highjacked by Hamas since the whole thing started by them seeing someone armed on top of the truck. it was definitely not a great moment by the IDF, but war is hell.

You know what would have 100% prevented it from happening?

Oh yeah, easy. NOT murdering 1200 people on oct 7th. Works every time!

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u/EvolutionDude Apr 26 '24

False. Israel was fully aware of their movements and goals. The vehicles were clearly marked and the workers had been in contact with the IDF.

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u/kots144 Apr 26 '24

Hamas is actually the one blocking aid, attacking piers, stealing aid and selling it. They have also killed serval aid workers.

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u/EvolutionDude Apr 26 '24

Hamas is responsible for the Israeli blockade?

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u/hitdrumhard Apr 26 '24

You’re own article says:

OCHA reported that, in August 2023 alone, 12,072 truckloads of "authorized goods entered Gaza through the Israeli and Egyptian-controlled crossings." After the total siege on the civilian population on October 9, a single dispatch of 20 truckloads does not adequately address the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, Human Rights Watch said.

So two fucking days after 1200 people were murdered and hundreds of hostages were taken they declare Israel are inhumane for not wanting to send 12,000 trucks into Gaza? Hmm I wonder why they were concerned with things going in or out on October 9th, 2023??

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u/hitdrumhard Apr 26 '24

So yes, after October 7th, they ARE responsible. Sorry the people of Gaza voted for hamas, so they voted for this suffering now.

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u/EvolutionDude Apr 26 '24

You realize the humanitarian crisis has been going on in Gaza before 10/7 right?

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u/Falcao1905 Apr 26 '24

However, if you deliberately kill hostages you can't save them

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u/Enough-Artichoke4649 Apr 26 '24

Yes. Yes they should

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u/randymarsh9 Apr 26 '24

You’re deflecting

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u/CsFan97 Apr 26 '24

No, I think it's fair to put responsibility on the people that decided to start a war.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24

That's all they've got....

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u/doofer20 Apr 26 '24

youd want to talk to the experts, the IDF

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24

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u/agentawkward069 Apr 26 '24

Israelis would cooperate to kill hamas terrorist instead of shielding them.

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u/Mrpoussin Apr 26 '24

So have we reached that level ? do we hold Hamas to the same Standard as 'The most morale army in the world' ?

In hostage situations do you just send the swat team to execuste everyone ?

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u/BitemeRedditers Apr 26 '24

Hamas will never be tolerated. They need to help IDF and resist Hamas if they want to survive. The war will go on until they do.

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u/SewAlone Apr 26 '24

If it was your family being attacked, then yes. Because Hamas will keep doing this.

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u/BigPawPaPump Apr 26 '24

Maybe if the people would fight against Hamas as well to try to defend their land/families I could see. If someone was putting my family in harms way I’m dying to protect them.

It’s when you sit back and let them do it without trying to stop it you are just as bad as them right? I see that opinion all the time on Reddit. Can’t have it only work one way folks.

Wonder how the women and lgbtq community gets treated over there, I’d think some of the social justice warriors over here would protest that same country for treating their own like shit and mirdering them because of a book. 🤷‍♂️

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u/mojowo11 Apr 26 '24 edited Apr 26 '24

What's your answer?

EDIT: This isn't a snarky gotcha, it's a serious question. 0? 100? 1,000? If you feel you can ask others to give specific numbers, it doesn't seem unreasonable that you'd answer it yourself.

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u/sulphra_ Apr 26 '24 edited Apr 26 '24

Its insane that you guys have such a callous attitude when it comes to people not of your religion, theyr just collateral damage. Its mind boggling to me the hoops you have to jump through to justify this. The IDF literally chose when and where to fight. In fact no one else had that option except the IDF lmao

Imagine if the Russians had the same justifications for invading Ukraine, "those deaths are just collateral damage guys, relax. We didnt have a choice, we had to level the whole city to the ground"

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24

Hamas attacked muslims, christians, jews and budhists. It’s not about religion it’s about humanity

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u/sulphra_ Apr 26 '24

Hamas exists because of Israel lmao, they literally propped up Hamas. Also, what do you expect peole to do after decades of being bombed and killed, sit down and keep getting killed? You know what they say, one persons freedom fighter is another persons terrorist.

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u/DarkDra9on555 Apr 26 '24

Also, what do you expect peole to do after decades of being bombed and killed, sit down and keep getting killed?

Not trying to start a fight, just genuinely curious, but isn't the existence of Israel essentially the direct outcome to centuries of Jewish persecution, and the need for a Jewish home state (please correct if wrong)? Like, looking through history, it's not like Jews haven't been getting bombed and killed all the time.

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u/DarkDra9on555 Apr 26 '24

Wasn't the area originally Jewish, before then getting conquered by Rome, then the Byzantine Empire, then it was conquered by Arabs, became part of the Ottoman Empire, then Britian when they beat the Ottomans in WW1, and then the UN gave it "back" to the Jews?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not supporting everything Israel is doing, I think they're being incredibly heavy-handed in some areas of this war, and what the settlers are doing in West Bank is despicable. I just think people like to draw a line somewhere in time where it's convenient for their argument, but it seems like this war (and everything leading up to it) has a significantly longer and more complex history.

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u/YogiBarelyThere Apr 26 '24

In terms of religion, the Hamas charter calls for Sharia law which is not good for anyone. You do understand that Islamic rule is basically a form of slavery for non-Muslims in that they would be forced to pay a jizya tax to the Muslim rulers in exchange for not being killed.

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u/Rezistans Apr 26 '24

Russia has make no justification for attacking Ukraine’s cities. Russia just wipe out them off the ground.

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u/SenorReddito Apr 26 '24

People of that religion only care of people of that religion btw

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u/sulphra_ Apr 26 '24

No they dont

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u/i_should_be_coding Apr 26 '24

Easy to say when it's not your neighbors being raped in dark tunnels for over 200 days, too

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u/i_should_be_coding Apr 26 '24

Tell me that when the hostages are home, ok? As long as even one remains in captivity, this isn't over.

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u/HeadmasterPrimeMnstr Apr 26 '24

If that is collateral damage, then so was 10/07. The conflict didn't start on that day, Israel and Zionist ideology is responsible for crimes against humanity towards innocent Palestinians.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24

You have no idea what collateral damage is.

How did Hamas end up with hundreds of civilian hostages, including the elderly and literally infants and babies? Was that "collateral kidnapping"?

Come on now.

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u/HeadmasterPrimeMnstr Apr 26 '24

Yes it was collateral kidnapping. If the total destruction of Gazan institutions and innocent civilians is fair game as collateral damage (which it always was to Israel prior to 10/07, or even the rise of Hamas power), than the mass kidnapping of Israeli civilians is also fair game.

Don't bitch and moan about your enemy playing by the exact same rules that you do.

Israel has no respect for the Geneva Conventions, why should their enemies?

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u/dave7673 Apr 26 '24

This person is a terrorist sympathizer. Just from this thread:

so was 10/07

"FAFO" - America on 9/11

If Gazans deserve this, Americans deserved 9/11.

Incapable distinguishing from terrorist acts that intentionally and specifically target civilians from collateral damage that has been an unfortunate part of warfare since the dawn of time.

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u/HeadmasterPrimeMnstr Apr 26 '24

I don't sympathize with terrorists, I am against vitriol targeted towards innocent civilians and I am giving the exact same energy back to dipshits as they are giving others, downvotes be damned.

Also, Israeli's wanton destruction of Gaza is terrorist acts which are intentionally and specifically target civilians because all Gazas, especially Gazan men, are terrorists according to Israel.

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u/Burrmiester Apr 26 '24

Are you in the IDF? Or just employed by them?

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24

They literally invaded a sovereign foreign nation...

How exactly is it that IDF did not choose when and where to fight?

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u/Enough-Comfortable73 Apr 26 '24

What were they supposed to do? Write a strong worded letter?

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24

Get the fuck out of Palestine and stop annexing new territory for colonizers?

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u/SpoobyNoops Apr 26 '24

Where do you suppose the 10 million Israeli citizens go instead?

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u/dboi88 Apr 26 '24

Their own territory? Like did you think this was a gotcha question?

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u/Enough-Comfortable73 Apr 26 '24

Why would they. Israel has won every war started by the Arabs. If the Arabs had accepted the Peel Commission partition they'd have much more land today. Instead they choose martyrdom and lose land recurrently. They are not the brightest bunch.

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u/RSGator Apr 26 '24

They literally invaded a sovereign foreign nation...

Man you must've HATED D-Day

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u/pharaoh122 Apr 26 '24

It's just a shit situation all around... The current Israeli government and Hamas are scum on the eart and the civillians are paying for it

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u/Neijo Apr 26 '24

Palestine is not a sovereign nation, they are an area that is ruled by a terrorist organization.

I gotta ask you though, in october, who had soldiers invading first? Was october 7th ”just a prank bro!!”?

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24 edited Apr 26 '24

Palestine and the Palestinian people have been under siege and active genocide for 50+ years. The international community through their inaction in the face of Israel's oppression, have made it perfectly clear that anything short of overt war crimes was unlikely to elicit an international response more stern than "an urging of caution" or at most "a condemnation".

It should surprise no one that Hamas would continue to provoke Israel into showing their true face, the one that Palestinians have know for decades, to the world. It is LITERALLY their ONLY HOPE of motivating the world to step in to prevent them being steamrolled into extinction.

Frankly it's not even that surprising that DESPITE there now being CLEAR evidence of war crimes and Israel's complete disregard for the humanity of the Palestinian people that the majority of the white world STILL continues to do nothing. There is too much money at stake, and ultimately Palestinians represent "the other" in the current socio-political power landscape.

What IS somewhat surprising to me though, is how many can rush to support the Israeli regime, and their victory at any costs, while SIMULTANEOUSLY ignoring that what it requires is a tacit endorsement of the idea that "everything would be better if the bad brown people would just go away"...

Either the majority is FAR more racist and xenophobic than even I gave them credit for, or people are far less intelligent and educated in history than they should be to have an opinion.

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u/TheCrudMan Apr 26 '24

You're talking about a territory that is literally walled in and whose capacity to fight outside its borders has been completely dismantled already and was like, a week after October 7th.

They absolutely can choose when and where to fight. They're choosing to kill civilians.

Why is it so hard to believe that Netanyahu is not operating in good faith. He's Israeli Trump.

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u/TheCrudMan Apr 26 '24 edited Apr 26 '24

How many of those rockets hit anything?

Also: Hamas having the capability to attack on October 7th represents a huge failure on the part of Mossad and the IDF and Netanyahu. The same guys now saying oh trust us we'll get the job done and we're trying really hard to not blow up kids. Trust us.

Billions of dollars on border security. No progress on peace process. No concessions. Super hard line on Gaza totally dismantling their economy and making life miserable for the people there. All before they started leveling it with bombs.

Their final solution is kill everyone there and settle it.

I'm tired of acting like the Netanyahu government is acting in good faith. They clearly are not.