• rivermonster@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      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.

      • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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        10 months ago

        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.

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          10 months ago

          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.

          • bufordt@sh.itjust.works
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            10 months ago

            Yeah, let’s just ignore that historically Israel has killed 20 Palestinians for each Israeli killed.