This is the real world, not a school yard. If a neighbouring territory attacks in the manner Hamas did, it will provoke a response, that's nothing to do with not having agency, that's just how things work. Even the Graun accepts Hamas has been using civilian infrastructure. I have zero doubts that Israel happily expands upon the truth for its own ends, but it is an expansion not a fiction. Fig leaves don't come out of nowhere. And I agree the civilian suffering is a feature, and I disagree with Israels lack of caring about it. Civilian causalities were always going to be high, partially due to the battlefield, partially due to Hamas' behaviour, but the casual attitude to death the IDF is taking is pretty horrific. I can accept a few isolated horrors - after all, Hamas have been busy with booby traps of crying babies and screams in Hebrew - but the sheer casualness is something that needs reigning in, and, where necessary, prosecuting. But if you're going to take the view that civilian casualties should be avoided, then this really is a "both sides" damnation. In the words of Sami Abu Zuhari a decade ago: "Hamas despises those defeatist Palestinians who criticise the high number of civilian casualties. The resistance praises our people … we lead our people to death … I mean, to war." Hamas and Netanyahu share common ground on Palestinian lives it would appear.
I figured that's what you were going for, but here's the problem. You didn't say Palestinians in the first post. You said Hamas. So it looks like you're conflating Hamas with all Palestinians. Which leads to a lot of messy assumptions about how messy your frame of mind is.
Or it shows you argue in bad faith, and look for the worst possible interpretation of what I was saying, and you did so without asking me to clarify, which means you accepted your own interpretation without any outside input before making that assumption.
I didn't argue, and considering this thread is in full "defend your side and only call out the other side's alleged misdoings" mode, everyone is unfortunately going to have to type out Palestinians when appropriate to make it clear they don't conflate Palestinian civilians with Hamas militants.
Israel has no problem conflating Palestinian civilians with Hamas militants, and there are plenty of people here who are fine with that, despite halfhearted protestations to the contrary. The reason I mentioned Hamas is because of that: just like with these colonizers black people who are arrested, shot, murdered always have a reason why "they were no angels," and I wanted to emphasize that mindset being used here to indict and condemn every Palestinian, including children. Hamas is responsible for 1200 deaths on October 7th. Israel is currently responsible for the 20,000+ deaths since then, including 10,000+ children, and yet the issue focus still seems to be Hamas and not a genocidal Israel. As I said, the white colonizer mindset engages in overwhelming retaliation, just as the US did when 3,000 people died in the WTC attacks on 9/11, and we went and murdered a shit ton of civilians in other countries who had nothing to do with the attack. That is colonialism, imperialism.
"This is all ours. This is all ours! Check out the promenade!" https://twitter.com/MiddleEastMnt/status/1740016778632400913
No, but they're often related, contemporaneous and can be seen as being part of a spectrum. Have a look at what Northern Gaza now looks like. A city once stood here.
Isn't this the completely foreseeable result of a conflict Hamas started when they broke the ceasefire with the murder of 1200 people? Don't a majority of Palestinians support Hamas currently? And isn't Hamas opposed to a ceasefire currently? So why are you complaining, if this is apparently what a majority of Palestinians want?
It's completely forseeable that you'll still be a cunt tomorrow, but that doesn't make it anyone's fault except yours.
Worth pointing out that these figures - based on what was the case for previous comparable conflicts - could be a significant underestimate. It's possible that on the order of twice or three times that number are dead. I mean, how could anyone possibly be counting the dead in the north, which the IDF consider a free-fire zone?
Terrorist sympathizers don't like the 'find out' portion of the menu. And I find it absolutely hilarious that as an atheist and a trans that these two morons would be targeted explicitly by Hamas if they were in their power. This is what happens when you put in leadership that indoctrinates your entire culture into thinking murdering your neighbor is morally just and the way to get into heaven. Always has, always will.
That is highly likely. We probably won't know the full death toll for years, assuming anyone would care at that point. “Massacred” vs “Left to Die”: Documenting Media Bias Against Palestinians Oct 7 - Nov 7 A quantitative analysis of the first month of conflict, reveals how dehumanization is baked into the ideological cake of cable news. This article was written by a quantitative data analyst and has the full dataset included: https://www.columnblog.com/p/massacred-vs-left-to-die-documenting
The argument that trans people have to like the jews is the same one used by trump to say the jews have to vote for him because he is the best thing that ever happened to them. But we all know dumiurge knows what is best for trans people being he thinks we all need to be removed from society. I wonder if zionist dumiurge is trying to use trans people to fight his battles for him? Seems like he is one of our big supporters and knows what is best for us. Oh, and was that line about killing your neitghbors being morally just and a way to get into heaven meant for Isreal? It seems Isreal's entire existence is based on killing and removing the people opposed to their empire which is god's reward for them for being good jews.
In the meantime, here's the total war related casualties in MENA over the last 12 years. Funny how this conflict is the one that gets all the outrage. I wonder what the difference is here. Whatever could it be.
Yes, there has been absolutely no outrage about events in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria or Libya. None at all. Back in reality... IDF terrorist boasts of killing a 12 year old girl but wanted to kill a baby instead. Another boasts of killing boys playing football.
Some damn fine editing jobs there. The first kid was clearly joking, the second was cut off before he continued his sentence. Jeez, I wonder what the rest of his statement was. It's like your brain turns off on this issue entirely. And no, there isn't daily coverage of Afghanistan and hasn't been for years. There's never been daily coverage of what's going on in Syria or Yemen. There certainly weren't daily protests. It's like this one is different somehow. I just can't put my finger on it.... LOL.
First you said no "outrage". Now you've changed it to no "daily coverage". But that's because - once again - the rate of killing and proportion of civilians killed by the IDF is off the charts in Gaza during the last 3 months when compared to other recent conflicts. The only things comparable in the region involved ISIS.
Another thing... Man says he committed crimes while under interrogation by military known to use torture: Copperfast proof! Man freely posts confession of crimes on TikTok amidst widespread culture of impunity: He's just joking!
Iraq plans to 'end presence' of US-led coalition forces, PM says Seen alongside their impotence in the Red Sea maybe it's "find out" time for the United States as more countries move to defy them.
Show me your 100+ posts on the Yemen war, hypocrite. Your constant posts on the Syrian civil war. No? Why not? 40 times as many have died in those wars as this one. Guess it's just the Jews that are the problem then.
Surprising a Jew could match your morality? They aren't some monolith? A Jew no less. What a choice of words.