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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 75 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

[Drops flyers with warning message saying "we will attack soon; flee, those who can!"]

[Attacks the refugee camps, oh and also hospitals]

100% assholes. 👌 Equal to or worse than the Russians, I swear to freaking God.

[–] intelshill@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Israel casualty ratios make Russia look positively positive

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 48 points 2 years ago (34 children)

I see ads in TV that are pro Isreal now with Santa crying because of Hamas kidnapped people. I know it's what about ism but not really moral high ground here when IDF literally wipes whole familes.

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Its not what-about-ism.

Being accused of attacking civilians and saying the enemy is attacking civilians to divert attention is what-about-ism.

Crying that the enemy is attacking civilians while you are also attacking civilians is hypocrisy.

Calling out your own/allied government for attacking civilians and trying to hold them accountable even if the enemy attacks civilians as well is being a good person.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Fuck Israel, Fuck Hamas, and Fuck the U.S. for consistently supporting extreme collateral damage against civilians.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (11 children)

At what point does this go from being a counter terrorist operation to a genocide?

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

A long time ago.

[–] Kalysta@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

It’s been a genocide since the Nakba. The US just refuses to call it that because we’re funding the damn thing.

[–] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

🔫 Always has been

[–] darkdantedevil@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago

At what point is a people who've been violently relocated into an open air prison (more densely populated thank Tokyo) responding to their attackers with violence in kind terrorism ?

[–] FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

about a month and half ago

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I mean the bit where they killed their own hostages because they were so horny for killing civilians made it pretty obvious if you weren't already convinced

[–] Badtouchspez@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Like atleast 10+ weeks ago

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

An army should go around civilians to get to their enemy, not through them.

[–] catbaba@lemmus.org 4 points 2 years ago

That's pretty fucked up

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The only world record you do not want to achieve without looking like a complete monster. And yet Israel managed to do just that.

[–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That is not even close to the world record. Killing 250 people in a day isn't good, obviously, but it is not even a rounding error compared to real warfare.

Just considering conventional weapons, the firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9–10 March, 1945 killed approximately 100,000 people.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'm just glad we didn't reach numbers this insane. But still, it should be zero.

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[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

That's a big family

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