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"If looks could kill it would've been us instead of [them]"
You can say the people in Gaza would be the ones doing genocide if they were able. But they aren't. In this reality, Israel is the one actually doing the genocide. So that is what the world has to deal with.
And who is Israel going to nuke? It's their neighbours that hate them most, so that won't work out great for Israel. And their neighbours hate them now more than ever thanks to bibi the warlord.
Pointless. I seen the Oct 7th videos I have no doubt they would if they could. Intent matters.
That word is quickly becoming meaningless. Israel has the means to kill everyone in Gaza. 79 days since Oct 7th and they've conducted more than 22,000 strikes and only managed to kill 20k out of 2 million people. Use your brain and play out why that is.
It's almost like they're trying not to kill civilans. Crazy.
That's the beauty, no one will be nuked. Israel just having them is enough to make sure no nation(s) move on them.
There will be no intervention no matter what happens in the UN or any other country. When you have nukes you can do whatever the hell you want to do. Look at China with the Uyghurs, it's carte blanche.
So sure. Hate Israel all you want. It's mostly misguided hate and has very little basis in reality but the good thing is no matter what you do it won't stop Israel from doing what it needs to do.
Intent does matter but actions and impact matter a lot more. Reality matters more than speculative alternate realities. Real lives matter more than hypothetical lives.
20,000 is 1% of 2 million. Israel has knocked off an entire percentage point of the population in a couple of months, mostly civilian. Sure, they could wipe out everybody in Gaza, but then even the US and Germany wouldn't be able to support them. Israel needs to maintain at least some pretext of legitimacy, as weak as it is, so their 'partners' can say 'Israel has the right to defend itself' and try their hardest to ignore questions of proportionality and international law.
If the IDF is trying not to kill civilians they are doing a criminally poor job. Reports indicate that IDF soldiers are actively targeting non-combatants. To dismiss these reports is to be complicit in these atrocities. Skepticism is healthy, but ignorance is not.
As for them not needing to use the nukes, I wouldn't be so sure. Their enemies have already demonstrated they are perfectly willing to 'martyr' themselves and civilians. If it's a bluff, it'll get called. If it's not a bluff, Israel craps in their own bed, irradiating their (and many other's) holy land -- which is why the bluff would likely be called.
Other significant context, when thinking about the legitimacy of the operation:
IDF knew of the planned attack a year beforehand and didn't take it seriously, despite additional warnings https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html
Netenyahu supported Hamas for years https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
#gazagenocide #gaza
We're up to 1.5% of the population, now. And I neglected to mention all the people who have been displaced and/or don't have access to medical care. Last count I saw was 800,000 people. That's genocide as well, according to the UN convention that Israel ratified.
#gazagenocide
Is the genocide in the room with you right now?
Come up with whatever hashtag you want nothings going to change.
What does that even mean?
As you are surely aware, I didn't come up with those hashtags, they're prevalent online. I'm sure you're also aware that people can search platforms by hashtag and find posts like mine. They'll find my statistics and arguments and your non-responses.
#gaza #gazagenocide #palestine #freepalestine