• BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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      It also has to be noted that a huge element behind low Israeli casualties is the Iron Dome.

      If you plotted a chart of attempted civilian deaths, you’d get a very very different picture. Personally, I’m not meaningfully less upset at someone who tries to murder me just because they don’t succeed.

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      Hamas is Jihadist and extremist. It would have been a fatal mistake for Israel to support them to undermine the secular movement for a free palestine. Trying to position Hamas between international support and the palestinian people sounds like a really cynical and bad idea.

      There is no way the hard right in Israel would ever pursue such an agenda.right?

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        What do you think the hostages they took were for? Aside from later rape after they were tired from all the initial raping and pillaging.

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            You’re just being overdramatic. My comment never mentions Palestine or Palestinians explicitly and to be clear I was referring to hamas, the terrorists, that hide behind Palestinian civilians.

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          Palestinian militants take IDF soldiers captive so they can exchange them for their own that are being held captive in Israel.