• GeneralVincent@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not “large numbers of civilian casualties”

    It’s “the VAST majority of deaths are innocent civilians”. It’s like if Texas kidnapped 5 random citizens to kill every time someone was given the death sentence. Would you say that’s acceptable because it’s just “collateral damage”?

    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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      1 year ago

      This is by design on the part of Hamas though. It doesn’t excuse the situation, but it does make it more complicated especially with regard to intent, which has to matter when considering charges of genocide.

        • TheFonz@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          I don’t know that one negative makes the other right. They can both be culpable of fabricating this situation to feed larger interests. IDF is reeling in Bibi’s dirty war and Hamas is Iran’s puppet to destabilize the region. They are all shitheads, as history had shown. I don’t know why leftys have coraled around defending Hamas when it’s the Palestinian people suffering the brunt of their actions.

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        11 months ago

        Oh, look… the White Supremacism Fan Brigade is blaming genocide on the victims of genocide again.

        Of course, the liberals who run Lemmy.world will ban me if I call you a fascist or a white supremacist… because reasons.

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          11 months ago

          You don’t think two things can be true at the same time? Hamas absolutely are using human shield tactics, and have been for as long as they’ve been in existence. There are articles on the Internet showing how and why they do this years back.

          AND at the same time, Israel is using that fact to bomb much more indiscriminately than they could be.