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It’s as if Israel wants to create a giant new generation of terrorists. So they can test their new weapons on them. Maybe that’s the plan in this festival of cynicism

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All the more reasons for them to continue the land grab and oppression.

Hamas needs Netanyahu as much as Netanyahu needs Hamas.

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Write to your representatives, demand support for Israel be revoked. Make sure you mention the very clear genocide this is.

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gen·o·cide /ˈjenəˌsīd/ noun the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

From what I understand, the actions of Hamas are clearly fell under this definition. Their goal is to kill all Jews. I don’t see how actions of IDF could be classified as genocide, since their declared goal is to kill the Hamas leaders, and not some nation or ethnic group.

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With respect, what on Earth are you on about?

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Israel’s ismm actions are GENOCIDE, plain and simple. They do not recognise Palestine. The dehumanising language being used is textbook, in removing their humanity. They want all of the land to become Israel and they want all Palestinians out. Settlers on the west bank

Was the Hamas attack genocide? They definitely intended as such; and killed over a thousand people indiscriminately with the aim of causing as much damage as possible.

But you cannot look at Israel’s actions and say what they’re doing isn’t genocide. That “this is war” is no excuse for the sheer scale of war crimes being committed.

In 2018 . I have no confidence that the very same murderers, guiding rockets and now participating in the ground offence are any different and will have any sympathy for the Palestinians, whether it’s an elderly woman or child.

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It’s not only about textual definition, think of the moral side of this conflict and try to justify killing 50 innocents for one alleged military target and how many more civilians need to die?

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Israel really have two options at this point: either Palestinian dead kids, or Israeli dead kids. Nobody proposed a third option so far.

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Yes, the thousands of children they’ve killed were clearly Hamas leaders.

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The thousands of children weren’t the aim. We can argue about was it a war crime or not, probably was. But it cannot be a genocide.

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It seems disingenuous to analyze the locations without checking how many airstrikes were performed in the regions they highlighted to evacuate.

The highlighted regions are basically marked for destruction because there is a large amount of ordnance located in storage facilities, or the IDF has identified them as having many entrances to tunnel complexes. In many cases, every other house in those areas marked for evacuation has been demolished.

There have been 8000 some fatalities thus far, and it’s only thanks to telling people to evacuate that there haven’t been 80,000.

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armchair reporting from hypothetical Gaza in the universe of spherical cows

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From the article:

The BBC provided specific locations and dates to the IDF for each of the strikes highlighted in the article.
We asked if these locations had been struck by IDF forces and whether warnings had been given prior to these attacks.
In its response the IDF said it “cannot provide any further information regarding these specific locations”.
It said that it had “called on civilians in Gaza to move south for their safety but will continue striking terrorist targets in all parts of Gaza”.

Literal terrorism on the part of Israel here.

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If Palestinians COULD get rid themselves from Hamas, they definitely would. Israel helps the Palestinians to get rid of the Hamas cancer - this unfortunately is an brutal and awful process.

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The hamas that Israel supported to undermine the secular Fatah? And now them killing 200 civilians to kill one alledged Hamas leader is the cure? Fuck off.

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Username checks out.

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If the treatment kills you it’s not the cure buddy.

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