• Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Exactly. It’s not a choice between “murder innocent civilians” and “do nothing”; it’s a choice between “murder innocent civilians” and “target legitimate targets such as the military apparatus that actually murders Palestinians regularly or the right-wing political apparatus that pursues a policy of military hyper-aggressiom, apartheid, and settler colonialism”.

        If they chose to do the latter, I doubt nearly as many people would take issue with them, they’d receive vastly more sympathy, and they could finally end the systemic murder and oppression of Palestinians faster.

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          Look man, if your options are literally only “do nothing and accept your fate” or “kill a bunch of innocent people who never did anything to you and actually may have supported you” then maybe you should just give up and accept your fate, because we’re literally seeing how many more innocents are dying because of this. They didn’t put a dent in Israel’s defenses. They gave Israel more excuses to the international community to murder even more innocents. Great plan, Hamas. I’m glad it worked out so swimmingly and actually changed things instead of just continuing the same bullshit cycle. /s

          If you can point to me out how this is going to result in anything other than more death and destruction, feel free to clue me in. Because fuck nothing has changed. They didn’t take out the people responsible. They didn’t change the power balance, and now even more Palestinians are paying the price because Israel is a fucked up aggressor.

          Acting like a bad plan that resulted in more innocents deaths is some great blow against the establishment is dumb as fuck.

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      Are you saying the only options are handing out collective punishment or accepting death?

      First, that’s doubtable. But if so, I’d indeed accept death. I’m not killing innocents.

      I’d rather die than become a living monster.

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        no im not saying that, youre saying that. you are equating what israel has done for 75 years to mere reaction to that. you may not believe that hamas is not killing civilians on purpose and i cannot change that, but that does not change reality.

        we have seen just war crimes over war crimes from israel just for the past few days. this is on top of decades of apartheid.

        i could accept death for myself, too. but not for my daughter.

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          I was equating killing innocents with killing innocents, nothing else.

          You are justifying mass punishment with …something about your daughter, and with that exposing exactly the attitude that keeps the region in a never ending cycle of death.

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            “2. Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for their independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;” https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-184195/

            war crimes:

            • Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
            • Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated;
            • Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives;
            • The transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory;
            • Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives;
            • Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions; https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml

            these are the ones that were committed in just few days.

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              I understand. you list here injustice that when experienced are beyond words.

              Now tell me: in what cases does is the punishment of innocents justified?

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                your assumption is wrong.

                israel displaced millions of palestinians and replaced them with settlers. the blood is on israel government not hamas. they could easily not replace millions of people and we would not be here today.

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                  Now you named one factor that explains this mess, and no objection here. But I’m still missing the answer how killing innocents can be justified.

                  It seems to me that you think that every person that lives in Israel is responsible for everything that the Israeli government did over the years.

                  How is that any different from this weeks retaliation that this Israel government hands out over the massacres of citizens by hamas from last weekend?

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                    i have been saying the same thing from the beginning, but i think your perspective of the situation is holding you back from understanding what im saying.

                    you can put innocent people anywhere in the world and they dont stop being innocent. but that does not change the fact that they are in someone elses home illegally.

                    if they did not want to be in someone elses home then it is the fault of the government, if they did want to be in someome elses home then it is their fault.

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      asymmetric warfare. i would figure it out. sorry about your palestinians but im different. /s