• capital@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Reading through these threads since the Hamas attack, this point is lost on 99% of people here.

    Newsflash - combatants don’t just get to set up shop in a church or hospital to have their opponents throw up their hands in defeat.

    People bitch at Israel but don’t say a god damn thing about Hamas effectively painting a target on the building they occupy.

    • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Why do you guys keep comparing what a terrorist organization does compared to a government?

      If you are doing the same things as terrorists, then you are a terrorist organization and not a government.

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        1 year ago

        Hamas is both a terrorist group and the government of the Gaza strip. I’m surprised that fact escaped you

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        1 year ago

        IIRC Israel regularly attempts to warn people before striking to give non-combatants time to leave and makes a point of NOT using their citizens as human shields.

        That different enough for you?

        • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          Different flavors, one can do whatever because everyone already despises them, the other is trying for plausible deniability.

          Mocha vs french vanilla