• Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hamas terrorists hide amongst innocent Palestinian families. If they weren’t cowards they would wear uniforms like the IDF and most (if not all) of the civilian casualties would be avoided… But Hamas doesn’t want that anyway, because they use the civilian casualties to justify their violence.

    That said, I agree with what you’re saying. At some point you have to say “if you two can’t play nice, you’re both grounded”.

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      1 year ago

      The IDF is one of the strongest standing military forces in the world.

      Hamas is at best a loosely organized guerilla fighting force, and that is being generous.

      Let me put it to you another way: Do you think the Continental Army were cowards or terrorists because they fought the Revolutionary War by employing ambushes and other guerilla warfare tactics including intentionally not identifying themselves as enemy combatants?

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        1 year ago

        If I poke a bear and then it chases me home and eats my family while I’m hiding in the basement, it’s my fault.

        Only instead of poking the bear I’m murdering its cubs.

        It doesn’t matter how much stronger the bear is than me. If anything, I SHOULDN’T POKE THE BEAR.

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          What an incredibly disingenuous, dishonest, and privileged analogy.

          It also happens to make no fucking sense unless you are legitimately saying that Israel is akin to a wild predator acting on nothing but instinct with absolutely no moral imperatives or understanding of its actions in which case then you’re also as stupid as you are dishonest.

          Secondarily, you fail to state in your example that what really happened is the bear locked you and your family in the basement of your generational family home for 75 years. It killed a bunch of your neighbors, and then decided to build a pool with your money that you could see from the basement windows. The bear then invited all of its friends to live in your house while you drank from the toilet and ate rotten scraps that were barely enough to keep you alive.

          When you finally worked up the courage to try to escape the basement, and take your house back the bear then killed half of your family. Then some of your neighbors, who managed to survive the bears previous attack, attempted to break you out of the basement. So, the bear killed all of them too. Finally you decided your best option was to let the bear kill you as long as you grievously maimed the bear in the process.

          Once you finally lashed out at the bear, and maimed it. The bear then kept you alive so it could round up every single person you had ever met, murdered them right in front of you before finally ripping you limb from limb before shitting down the neck of your mangled corpse.

          ^ That bear is an accurate representation of Israel.