This never was about Hamas, and never was about the hostages.
It’s about exterminating Palestinians and destroying their infrastructure, while ensuring that enough of the survivors are radicalised enough to keep the military funding going.
while ensuring that enough of the survivors are radicalised enough to keep the military funding going.
this is the part everyone misses. it’s a batman/joker thing. as long as bibi can make the case that there’s at least one living member of Hamas, he’s free to send the IDF to loot, pillage, burn, rape and murder in Palestine. This is why Israel funded Hamas for years. There’s nothing an asshole likes more than another asshole, so that while he’s being an asshole he can point to the other asshole and say “Look what an asshole that guy is! I’m protecting you from him.” The fact is the Israeli and Palestinian civilians have both been victimized by Hamas, the Israeli government, and Europe. This conflict is full of powerful people trying to convince regular powerless people that other regular powerless people are the enemy, but the fact is an Israeli civilian has more in common with a Palestinian civilian than they do with Hamas or IDF.
I wouldn’t go that far to say hamas/iran want to exterminate palestinians, but rather to keep israel busy and create a negative world opinion on them for reasons to come in the next years.
Even if this was the case, when someone holds a gun to your head and says do something before i count to three, most wait till the last possible second. Isreal pulled out a resume and dumped two clips before anyone said One.
The only real fuckin ugly truth to any of this right now is that blame seems to be the only thing that matters to anyone. Innocent people are being slaughtered and instead of just shutting this shit down ASAP and hashing it out when the dust settles we’ll just sit back and debate while war crimes happen.
People are losing their jobs just for asking for a ceasefire, not even for saying anything antisemitic. It’s insane. I still feel sorry for that Scream 7 actress.
…what? Might wanna reread your comment.
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Forget the fact they were hostages. They had already openly surrendered and were waving a white flag. They were non-combatants in every sense of the word. They murdered them.
Israel claims that 61% of deaths are civilian which is already beyond fucking abhorrent but with this news, is that number remotely reliable?
Israel has been dying to take every square inch of Palestine for decades. They took their opportunity and they are openly slaughtering the population. 61% by their own admission. Over half of all deaths have been civilian but still they keep pushing on. They kill their own people and still they push on.
I no longer see a difference between Israels government under Bibi/his party and the Nazis in WW2. Openly exterminating a group of people they do not like under the argument that they have some holy/divine/superior claim to land. That is literally the fucking Nazi playbook.
It is genuinely bonechilling and horrifying.
Yeah, I believe the comparison to Nazi Germany is spot on.
It’s why, next time I see an Israeli genocide troll talk about “Israel’s right to exist”, I’m just gonna ask if they think Nazi Germany had a right to exist, and if not, why. I’m anticipating some serious mental gymnastics, or, depending on where it happens, an instant permaban.
You should pull Rivermonster into that conversation. He’s like a one man cirque du soleil defending Israeli genocide.
Read non-Israel publication’s eyewitness reports from the rave and kubbutz attacks on Oct 7th, they don’t want to investigate how many civilians died by friendly fire.
Apparently one of them wasn’t dead immediately and cried for help so they shot again
And the commanding officer only tried to stop them when they heard the last victim asking for help and realised it was in hebrew.
Seems the IDF shoots first and asks questions later. This is what’s happened to unarmed jewish hostages, who were shirtless, holding a white shirt on a stick which is the universal sign of surrender. What about the million people living in gaza coming up against this? Holy fuck.
That’s how the IDF have killed ~20k Palestinians and ~100 journalists in the last 2 months. Mass murder of the civilian population is the intended consequence when you’re indiscriminately bombing refugee camps and journalists.
“If they move, they’re Hamas… If they stand still, they’re well disciplined Hamas” — IDF
“Are we the baddies?”
They aren’t self aware to ask that.
That’s a classic for the IDF, let them bleed or finish them. Last time one of their soldier went to trial took 9 months for that. But not an apartheid state at all, just very similar…
Source?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Google is your friend, if you really care for a source of course…
Asking for a source should never be looked down on in discussions like this where misinformation can be rampant and accuracy is important
Accuracy is the excuse of lazy people, if I want a source I look for it and if I want I share it. What you consider so important is not important at all. No one owns his time to you or anyone else.
While I would like to agree with you, because far too often people dont ask for a source in good faith, would have to be consistent with the etiquette and require that the burden of proof falls on the person that makes a claim.
Not all requests for sources are equal. And you’re being kind of a dick.
Google is not your friend when it keeps regurgitating AI generated articles and images. They aren’t your friend when the only way you can get “reliable” information is by appending ‘reddit’ at the end. They aren’t your friend when you search with clear terms and tags the suggested articles they present are recent $$$$$ boosted ones instead of clearly the popular article that broke the event.
Truth
Asking for a source for breaking information that can significantly change a story should never be frowned upon. I asked, they initially admittedly provided tabloids, and then they provided legitimate sources. Lastly I thanked them for providing the source.
In cases like this, it is new information that the person clearly had recent access to so asking for the source should be extremely easy. Asking someone to waste their time verifying someone else’s claims when that claim could be complete horseshit is silly. I can’t exactly come upon a source that does not exist.
I still don’t own you my time. Simple as that.
And you are a whiny little shit when asked to back up your shit should not expect anyone else to put any stock whatsoever in what you say. So sure, you don’t owe anyone your time but you have already given some of it and to avoid wasting your time and ours, source the basic shit you say when asked. It’s called courtesy. It’s never required but things certainly are a hell of a lot nicer when people have some.
It’s great to be right.
It is. You should try it sometime.
Wow I bet you’re a fun person.
“It was against the rules of engagement for the IDF," Hecht says.
As if they haven’t been encouraging this as normal practice.
Marijuana use in the US isn’t just against policy, it’s against the law. But without enforcement, does a policy or law mean anything?
I’m not anti-marijuana, I’m saying enforcement is what determines a law or policy’s effectiveness.
Weeeeeeeeeeeak argument right there. “It’s still illegal ferederally” while pointing to a law that is only just barely limping on with its federal justification.
I get that the distinction is legally valid, and that you’re highlighting the slowness of Federal law, but you’re not really contributing significantly to the conversation here.
Particularly given that the topic of this thread is war, not recreational drug usage.
My point was simple: a law or policy, unenforced, is neither law nor policy.
We all know it to be true but then some pause and give a pass to platitude of “against policy.” Same applies to US police.
I’m not changing the topic. I’m saying people need to challenge these statements more vocally.
Edit to add: You’re saying I said things I didn’t, missing the point, and have derailed an important point of agreement.
That’s true, but policy or law, even when unenforced, still leaves absolute scope for those rules to be clamped down on.
proof?
/Gestures at the Gaza strip
lol most moral army in the world is war criming their own people too. they were civilians. they had surrendered. IDF be like “Me? Lie?”
The fact that they continue calling themselves the “most moral army in the world” while blatantly doing a geneva convention any% speedrun drives me up the fucking wall.
welcome to postmodern authoritarian conservatism. it premiered to the public with george dubya bush just randomly declaring victory in iraq and afghanistan knowing full well those wars would last over a decade after the declaration of victory, carried through trump just declaring that he had the biggest inauguration crowd ever, then stopped off briefly at “the election was stolen” and now its “the most moral army in the world hunts down and kills its own citizens”.
Which is why we can’t allow anymore to get elected
Remember the “women and girls” in Afghanistan suddenly getting sympathy from pro-war journalists the second the US pulled out?
Some say it came first when they said those four frames they released from the Pentagon security camera showed a passenger airliner.
Have you heard how many Israeli civilians likely died of friendly fire on Oct 7? Apparently “it would be inhumane to investigate” but they were shelling homes with tanks and they attacked Hamas at the rave with helicopters. Some of the eyewitnesses from the kibbutz attacks have interviews published and they’re all insane and corroborate the same things.
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This is a very narrow and low effort point of view to take when you don’t really know history. Evil, terror and war always take new forms. In this case you might say each side are nazis, but it is just a populist way to give cheap shock value statement. there is enough shocking information from hamas and idf to analyze new ways to critic what is unfolding. Fuck terror fuck war. This is a mess.
Very narrow and low effort, I agree. Was trying to generate some conversation, and it’s worked.
That said, Israel is pretty much running an open air concentration camp. They control pretty much all of the resources that the Gazans need. They targeted and bombed so many hospitals, schools, and community centers after specifically telling people to evacuate to these locations, that it’s no longer an “oopsie”, it’s an actual war crime. They’ve targeted and murdered over 60 journalists to prevent information from getting out. They’ve actively murdered people that have clearly surrendered. They’ve been caught burning food, medicine, and resources that would have helped the Gazans.
The IDF’s actions are indefensible. They have one of the most powerful, well trained, and well-funded militaries in the world, they don’t have the luxury of “accidents”, “misfires”, and “confusion” to obfuscate their actions as the weapons and tools that they have at their disposal are some of the most effective and reliable tools in the entire world. Those shelled locations are INTENTIONAL. Those murdered journalists were INTENTIONAL. Those bombed out evacuation zones were INTENTIONAL.
HAMAS is a terrorist group. The IDF are fucking Nazis.
Very narrow and low effort, I agree. Was trying to generate some conversation, and it’s worked.
trolling then, and comment still up
You got it only half right, hamas Is indeed a terrorist group. Not everyone can be immune to this kind of propaganda or generated it. (Concentration camp/nazis etc… ) You probably think if you write it you are making people “think” but no you just generate stupidity, misinformation and hate. Nazis are nazis. At least try to have an opinion to analyze new situation. If you clean your text from these words I might be able to read and even agree to many of these points
Sometimes being aggressive and using cheap methapors makes you more wrong then you are.
It’s wild how we have simplified all modern complex issues to “it’s because of the (fill in the blank extremely popular bad guys)”
Guess it’s not worth thinking about the actual issues.
But the issues are caused by the bad guys.
Pretty convenient it’s always a nameless generic bad guy for the actual bad guys though.
Both sides aren’t Nazis. The Nazis had German-level organisation behind them. Hamas has had significant organisation (at least for 7 Oct) that is for sure, but the level of organisation behind the IDF is far greater and better coordinated.
Or do you count Quatar, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Houthies, Hezbolla, etc.? When the reality is laid out all of a sudden, it’s not just poooor little Hamas. Hamas is part of a coalition, and their goal is maximum Palestian casualties for maximum outrage by people blaming the wrong party.
You’ve forgotten that I’ve already attributed much of Hamas’ organisation to Iran in another conversation with you.
However you’re ignoring how the comment you’re replying to mentioned that Israel is far more organised. The point I’m making here is that Israel is closer to stereotypical German organisation than Hamas or its backers.
Good comment
It’s the irony that hurts.
You’re wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Removed under rule 5, keep it civil.
Removed? I still see it fine.
And really??? Over the word asshat?
Read the sidebar:
“Rule 5: Keep it civil. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (perjorative, perjorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (perjorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect!”
You’re wrong because the Nazis were Socialist. It’s in the name.
/s because the mods are about, I wanted to let the joke fly on its own without the tag but I’m not sure that’s wise hah.
Edit2: Oof nevermind, apparently mocking people who take the “Nazis are socialist, it’s in the name” argument is too much for people.
The problem is making a statement like that is a very clear demonstration of Poe’s Law.
Because some people actually honestly believe that the Nazis were socialists, without any other indication nobody can tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.
I reflexively downvoted you before reading the second paragraph and amending my vote.
No worries lol but I would say that Poe’s law is a bit of a double edged sword - you cannot know the intention from the outset of a brief comment, you can only infer it.
I would agree that my comment could have subsequently been twisted into an “oh no, I didn’t mean that!” bullshit excuse, but I think the context of everything else I say proves that to be a false interpretation. Meanwhile, in general I like to let jokes fly and see how people react, for better or worse.
Funny that’s where you went given the Nazis where all about exterminating the Jews, while Hamas has the same exact plan, and they do every chance they get.
Did you call Allies Nazis for wanting to kill Nazis?
Did the Allies want to exterminate Germans or stop the Nazis? If they wanted to exterminate Germans they did a really bad job of it.
This sentence is so generic it could be applied to both sides, depending on what’s your opinion of either side.
They really don’t though. They’ve said multiple times now that if you give them a two state solution on the 1969 borders without an occupation then they’ll be happy.
Israeli IDF members are “hostages” who’ve been “kidnapped” but Palestinian children imprisoned without charge are “detainees” or “prisoners”.
Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
Well that’s mainly because of “recognition”. Few countries recognize Hamas as a valid leadership organization of Gaza. That’s the difference between an army and a terrorist group. The army belongs to a recognized country.
And yet Hamas was elected on a moderate platform of a two state solution and anti corruption.
It was the immediate blockade, assassinations and arrest of all public Hamas party members in the West Bank that made the situation clear.
Now all we need some stories of the IDF raping women in Gaza (might have already happened) and I think they they got the entire war crime bingo card filled out.
I think gas is still blank. Anyone know if Syria has any leftover for them to use?
/s
Their regular use of white phosphorus bombs might fall under that category.
Haven’t seen a bioweapon yet
I’m ready for Biden to make a more honorable move
Isreal had a right to defend itself from those hostages. Do you condemn the actions of those hostages?
I’m sure genocide Joe will do the right thing.
On the up side, the US president is buying more artillery for the fascists
He said he’s (we’re?) Zionist. So… yeah…
Israel’s most formidable enemy is the truth.
Yeah but like, maybe they’ve seen those documentaries about how in some cultures white cloth is a symbol of death. You know?
Our flag (of surrender) means death!
This is awful, but far more nuanced than the comments.
Friendly fire happens in war, especially with an enemy who uses civilians as shields and seeks to maximize civilian deaths for PR. They are trained to attempt to appear as friendlies and civilians. And in the thick of combat, mistakes are easy to make.
This horrible situation is similar to when little kids were shot during the war in Iraq. Children were used as suicide bombers and more effective because they looked less like a threat. This tragically caused non-threat children to sometimes be mistakenly killed as well.
An enemy that uses children and civilians, like Hamas, is a horrible cancer in the world and must be eliminated and removed completely.
No one was using these clearly unarmed and surrendering hostages as human shields. You cannot use “accidental friendly fire” as an excuse for their murder.
When your enemy does such things as common practice, it raises the probability that this will happen. Are you intentionally pretending to misunderstand to present a false narrative, or do you really not get it?
I think the IDF uses this as an excuse to kill anyone
It becomes more and more apparent as time goes on.
Hamas tunnels existed under some infrastructure, better destroy all the infrastructure!
Hamas pretended to be journalists to spy, better kill all the journalists!
Hamas uses human shields, better kill all the human shields!
Hell, non-terrorist countries make their military buildings look like regular infrastructure frequently and embed intelligence gathering personnel with protected people like journalists to spy. The third one just sounds like propaganda against Hamas anyway since desperate people sacrificing themselves to defend their people would be seen as noble by anyone who agreed that they should be able to defend their people.
My favorite was when an IDF propaganda guy on a cable news network (CNN or something I can’t remember) just casually dropped that the tunnels under a hospital that the IDF points to all the time as proof that Hamas is pure evil were actually built by the IDF at some point.
The news anchor wasn’t trying to be pro-Palestinian but they were so totally confused they couldn’t help but be like…. wait what?
I’m not sure why no one has clearly mentioned this in the news articles about Israel lying to reporters about evidence for the tunnels. But every modern urban area is riddled with tunnels. Saying they’re harboring bad guys is just an excuse to blow up everything.
That’s just an excuse for murder you should stop making that excuse for them. It’s not ok
Exactly what Hamas wants you to say. They appreciate your support.
But isn’t the thing you are saying what Israel’s government wants you to say? How is that any different? Israel is the side of killing children everyday. Their leader is not a good and honest man like he pretends to be but I wish he was. Just before this didn’t he strip checks and balances that were meant to keep him in line? You can love Israel and not like their leadership. I think he is a dangerous man and should go.
Bibi and other members of Likud are war criminals. Don’t look to me to defend them. I want to see them prosecuted for the many war crimes prior to October.
Feel free.to check my comment history, I don’t waver on this.
Saying Israel is the side of killing children, though, is a talking point written by Hamas. And yes, they are responsible for many deaths by design to outrage people in the hopes of sparking a wider war. Hiding behind the children they have gotten killed is actually a war crim itself, co-location.
Careful parroting Hamas talking points.No sane person wants to kill children. Which is how you know Hamas is insane and must be eliminated. .
No sane person wants to kill children
Bold of you to assume Likud are sane. They’re dealing with “human animals”, remember? They are happy to kill Palestinian children.
To the main point: there is no excuse for this murder of surrendering civilians. Even if your enemy has the specific tactic of sending its combatants in shirtless and waving a white flag (Hamas don’t) then you still aren’t allowed to kill them, because people still need to be able to surrender.
Are you intentionally pretending to misunderstand to present a false narrative
Throwing mud at people first, accusing them of doing the very thing you always do.
Your narratives are clearly false upon the first reading of them, your only goal is to be inciteful and troll people.
Frankly, all of your comments are in breach of instance rules, from what I can see.
This is what I keep saying. Making up a story that’s countered by the facts won’t change the facts.
It’s not trolling to inject facts and reason to hateful propaganda and false narratives. But when that is inconvenient to the lies, I can understand why pretending that’s the case is the next step down.
To avoid personal attacks like yours, in possible violation of the rules, I’ll just leave it there.
My “personal attacks” are direct criticisms of your behaviour. I’m not calling you names, I’m calling you out for what you’re doing.
This article is about IDF soldiers killing hostages. Your reponse was:
Friendly fire happens in war, especially with an enemy who uses civilians as shields and seeks to maximize civilian deaths for PR.
My reply was that these hostages did everything they could to demonstrate they weren’t hostile, yet they were still executed by soliders. That is a war crime. There is no excusing that as friendly fire. Even if they weren’t hostages, the IDF should not have executed them, and doing so was the crime of murder regardless of their affiliation.
That isn’t the war crime of IDF leaders or of Bibi, that is the war crime of the soldiers that committed the act, and their commanding officers. The leaders only have a superfluous responsibility, easily obfuscated by varied interpretations of terminology. In other words, if you pass it off up the chain of command you end up with no one being responsible.
The thing happened. The person who did it is 100% responsible. The person in charge of the person who did it is also responsible, to some lesser degree. The person in charge of the military is also responsible, maybe not as much as the person who did it but perhaps more than their immediate commander, given the type of propaganda the person in charge passed down.
I think you’re trying to pass up responsibility to those that won’t face any of it, in an effort to exonerate those who are actually responsible on the ground.
My argument is that everyone involved is responsible and all of them should be held suitably to account.
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Your arms tired from carrying all this water for the IDF? They fucked up due to their lax rules of engagement and now some of their own citizens are dead instead of Gazan civilians who don’t have a new story written about them every time a group of them are murdered by the IDF. Hamas didn’t kill these people no matter how much you try to apply your tortured logic to this situation.
You’re Hamas’s favorite kind of dupe.
You don’t get to hand wave away war crimes just because Hamas sucks too
Funny. I was a soldier in Iraq and I don’t remember shooting people for having the temerity to approach me with a white flag.
Oh yeah that’s right we had a whole standard operating procedure to clear them and then get them to an IDP/Refugee camp.
Hand waiving what is obviously a shoot first ROE is ridiculous. You can absolutely tell whose a civilian and refrain from shooting them.
more than 15k civilians death
“Mistake happens ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”
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Edit: You have to do it like this to get the left arm to look right, just FYI.
¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯If they were intentionally killing civilians, they wouldn’t waste their lives with troops on the ground. And the numbers dead would literally be in the hundreds of thousands to millions. They have the power to project that kind of devastation but don’t in order to minimize civilian deaths.
They’re fighting in the densest urban combat theater of recent memory. Their enemy (hamas) is intent on causing as many civilian casualties as possible for PR so that slow thinkers can claim moral outrage and be oblivious to falling prey to the tactic.
With the combat going on there and the enemy operating from civilian locations intentionally to draw fire there, it’s surprising it’s not higher.
Apparently fast thinker think 15k death from all those dumb bomb that Israel openly admit it’s purely for maximising destruction is not high enough to proof they aren’t intentionally collectively punish all Gazan.
If this was before October’s attack, you would have a more compelling case. But Israel is not doing it jn a vacuum, and that’s if we ignore THOUSANDS of rockets lauched at civilians year after year.
It’s bad form to tell someone what they think, but it is telling also.
Yeah, let’s just ignore that historically Israel has killed 20 Palestinians for each Israeli killed.
Nice way to rationalize. Almost ready for a trial, Nuremberg would be ok for a location?
But your honor! My highly convenient claim makes it so that I MUST kill children. Surely you agree?!
So they can throw a few people under the bus and let the most prolific offenders get away with things?
Apparently there was one Nazi on trial in the UK, he slipped through the net of Ben Ferencz (the man responsible for making what few trials we had happen). He was tried in the UK, sentenced to death, then Winston Churchill himself (who had helped finance his legal defence) had his sentenced commuted to life in prison. His sentence was later reduced down to like 20 years and he was let go free. All of this was allegedly because Churchill hated the Soviets more and really wanted to go to war with Russia immediately after WW2. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find the name of this Nazi - I read it in a long article around the time of Ferencz’s death, then found a Wikipedia article about the Nazi by name (which may well have been scrubbed, Wikipedia doesn’t like articles about individuals and prefers articles about events). However it’s an interesting facet of the atrocities that were allowed to go by without facing justice, so long as the victors could profit from them, similar to all the rocket scientists and Japanese medical research that the US acquired.
I’m sorry, if you start with something that I consider stupid you can’t expect me to read the rest.
How is the first thing I’ve said stupid? The Nuremburg trials were indeed groundbreaking, but they didn’t really hold the most responsible to account. They stepped down the ladder and held the people they could to account.
It wasn’t right when our people killed children, it’s still not right when Israel does it, it will continue to be wrong when the next batch of cowards that think their adult lives are more important than children’s lives.
If you are so scared that you have to kill babies and children, you should not be a soldier.
If your first reaction to a white flag is to shit your pants and empty your gun, you are a coward and a waste of human life.
I am glad for your place of privilege where you can judge and condem without needing reason or experiencing the nuances involved here. Would you also like to talk to their manager?
Close quarters urban combat doesn’t happen like a turn based video game where you get to slowly decide your every move with the luxury of thinking through every move and variable. In fact, it’s full of chaos, uncertainty, adrenaline, and mistakes–tragic mistakes happen. Nobody is celebrating it, but you are condemning it from the safety of your keyboard … wow.
Yep I condemned it when America did it. Why should I want anyone else get away with it?
If you are so much of a coward, did you shoot someone with a white flag in their hands you are a waste of human life.
If you think that your revenge is worth more than human lives, children’s lives of all damn things, you’re a cowardly piece of fucking shit and a waste of space on my planet, and when you die, I will be happier for the fact that you are not here using up my resources, do you know with you being a child killer and all, and you will be one of the few deaths that I ever celebrate.
The fact that you would reference the inhumane slaughter of children during the Iraq war as a defense of the inhumane slaughter of innocent civilians in this exact context is absurdly oblivious to the reason those children were inhumanely slaughtered to begin with.
It wasn’t just a tragedy. It was an outrage. They shot kids cause they were Muslims. They shot them because they were black and brown. No part of it was a mistake. The soldiers and mercenaries deployed there by the United States military were racist. They were indoctrinated with racist ideology and literally told that the lives of literal children were expendable and, in fact, should be expended.
You unknowingly made the perfect comparison. The IDF is literally doing that exact thing. They’re spreading the same racism, the same Islamophobia, the same violent hatred. Which is exactly why they are just as condemnable and should face serious consequences for committing acts of mass violence against civilians - against literally children. This isn’t a mistake. It’s not an accident. You don’t bomb innocent men women and children for 2 months straight by accident.
It’s so insanely ahistorical, so utterly unaware of its own biases, so flagrantly dismissive of a the seriousness of the crimes being committed that I’m almost inclined to just call your post pointlessly inflammatory and intentionally cruel and walk away. But people are actually using the excuses you are in real life. With real lives involved. And so I think even if it were true that you’re just here to start a pointless argument, it is still worth it to respond to you. So that the people exposed to your propagandizing can see it for what it is.
Hi,
Indoctrinated Racist MonsterIraqi vet here. I nearly got a court martial for firing a warning shot. Please tell me more about how we apparently went on hunting expeditions of local kids? I think the most harm I ever did to one was when I accidently hit him with an MRE he was literally begging for.In fact I was around locals everyday. They would walk up and talk to us all the time. We would pay the kids two dollars to get us falafel and chicken pitas. (One to go and pay with, and one for them when they got back.)
In the invasion period in 2003 locals were allowed to pass through our lines. In fact we preferred that because we could ask them for information. The food and refugee stuff wasn’t conditional on them helping us but it turns out if you help a refugee they’ll happily tell you where the enemy is.
What Israel is doing is what we would have called a “free fire zone”. Which is not supposed to be used in urban areas with a lot of civilians. It’s for areas that have few, if any, civilians and are also supposed to be time limited. And even then you still want to not shoot at civilians because it’s a tactical mistake. Two infantry units fighting each other are quite often just waiting for the other one to give away their location. What Israel is doing is a war crime by American standards. They have quite obviously declared the entirety of Gaza a free fire zone with no ROE.
This was an interesting read. Thanks.
They shot suicide bombers who happened to be children who would have killed them. The criminals were the people (often Muslims) who groomed these kids and intentionally created the situation in the hopes of kneejerk unreasonable criticism like yours above.
You think because they were children, the soldiers should have allowed themselves to be killed? That makes sense considering your stance on what Hamas is doing.
It’s not racism and Islamophobia. Hamas operates this way and creates the situation with the intent to outrage non-thinkers and people with diminished capacity to reason.
You’re outraged, but at the wrong people, though.
I’m not devolving this into an endless cycle of you reiterating the same propaganda espoused by zionism. I have no interest in platforming you. But I will respond to this sentence in particular.
“You think because they were children, the soldiers should have allowed themselves to be killed?”
But they weren’t in any danger, were they? They saw a brown kid and shot them. Killing black and brown people is an American institution. America and its military are racist. They are Islamophobic. Muslims were literally portrayed as terrorists so pervasively in our media that Muslim people existing in public get murdered on a routine basis across the country. The American soldiers and hired mercenaries there literally went on killing sprees up and down the country mass murdering innocent families. They made impromptu mass concentration and torture camps. They laughed at what they did. They thoroughly enjoyed it. We made video games and movies and tv shows about it because the narrative was so pervasive that killing Muslims became a popular American pass time.
Again, you’re spot on comparing the mass murder of innocent civilians in the Iraq war to the ongoing slaughter of innocent civilians in Palestine. Just not at all in the way you think.
Yes. They were in danger. And it’s okay to defend your life. I have a friend who almost shot a child in this very situation when they were serving. To this day, he has PTSD and counciling for the trauma. NOBODY wants to shoot a kid or anyone else for that matter unless they’re seriously sick.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/04/iraq-alqaida-network-child-bombers
Fortunately, many failed and efforts to combat that recruitment helped.
Gaza is like if that effort had succeeded and geared up for years and years. Where 57% of the civilians support what you’re doing and are sympathetic.
It’s a good comparison. I just don’t agree that people, even Israelis, should have to lay down their lives because Al Quesa or Hamas radicalizes illegal combatants.
The rest of your accusations, I’ll leave unaddressed. They don’t warrant a response.
No one believes you, walk away and have a lie down
That nuance argument line of hours or the window when the Israeli government says the rules of engagement were violated.
Also, friendly fire is when the military goes on friendly military. These were hostages.
