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In response to
"Can you point to what sets it apart from genocide? I understand that Israel has been provoked and faces an existential threat"
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TWuG
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I continue to be stunned by how many people are buying this argument. It is not. The fighters are hiding among the people. Dug in to tunnels -- (edited)
Posted by
pmb (aka pmb)
Nov 16 '23, 09:14
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under civilian populations. Point your fingers at Hamas. Hamas literally wants to destroy Israel and Jews. Period. That is their goal. Israel is not trying to wipe out Palestinians, but war is awful and messy. Gaza is a tiny place. They are trying to permit pauses and warnings to the people to move but it is difficult. I don't love how Israel is approaching this, but it just continues to stun me that Israel, who was attacked and is responding, is somehow just supposed to take the damage and move on, while the perpetrators continue to be terrorists, hold hostages and will just look for other opportunities. If you terrorists sitting in a neighborhood in your town that continued to act against you, how do you think you would respond? We had 9/11 here by people from the other side of the world and started 2 wars that had huge civilian casualties. This was relatively speaking 10x as large to their population to a country that has endured attacks and a genocide of its own within the lifetimes of people who still live there. Imagine that. Now try to have some empathy for what they have had to deal with. There are no good answers here, but the framing by the left is incredibly disheartening.
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