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@[email protected] Israel is harmed far more by US politicians who enable the worst of its behavior than by politicians who accurately describe war crimes. Israel’s real friends will tell it when it’s in the wrong. Jimmy Carter is, objectively, the best friend Israel ever had in the White House, and he was the first to use the word “apartheid”
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What you seem to be missing is that Biden supports Israel, not Likud.
@[email protected] What you seem to be missing is that 33% of all buildings in Gaza have been destroyed with US bombs by the IDF.
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Ok, and why is that? Could Israel have targeted just military buildings and avoided civilian ones? Or did Hamas blur any such distinction by using homes, schools, and hospitals as military command centers? Hint: it's the latter, and it constitutes a war crime.
@[email protected] Hamas didn’t invent guerilla warfare, and pretending that it’s something new is almost as gross as justifying leveling entire neighborhoods because there might be a Hamas hiding in one of the buildings. Do you think the Irgun didn’t hide themselves among the civilian population? The Stern Gang?
Should the UN have leveled Tel Aviv after the assassination of Bernadotte, because any given building might have Lehi hiding in it?
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It's not new: terrorism is old. But talking about other things doesn't change this one.
No country is going to let a thousand people get slaughtered by terrorists and just shrug it off. The goal of the 10/7 massacre was to start a war, and it worked.
@[email protected] depopulating entire cities and willfully rendering them uninhabitable isn’t war, it’s genocide. This is 1% self defense and 99% opportunistic ethnic cleansing.
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No, it's Hamas throwing the Gazans under the bus.
@[email protected] the existence of militants within a civilian population does not justify indiscriminate extermination of that civilian population. It didn’t in Vietnam, it didn’t in Mosul, it didn’t in Grozny, it didn’t in Aleppo, it didn’t in Mariupol, and it does not in Rafah. A month from now, Gaza will be more thoroughly destroyed than any of those (north Gaza already is).
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Then Hamas has gotten what it wanted.
(Salvaged response that would have been lost due to their block.)
The Gazan Palestinians have the misfortune of being ruled by a terrorist government which commits massacres that lead to retaliation.
#israel #hamas #politics
@[email protected] I could shoot a Palestinian child in the middle of fifth avenue and it would be Hamas’s fault.
We’re done here.