• MooseLad@lemmy.world
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      Now is not the time to talk about a ceasefire. We must support Israel in efforts to eliminate the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered innocent men, women, and children. … We can talk about a ceasefire after Hamas is neutralized.

      https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/john-fetterman-israel-position-explained.html

      So basically, Fetterman believes that Israel can keep killing thousands of children as long as Hamas continues to exist.

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        1 year ago

        That’s not call for genocide, but for destruction of Hamas, whose goal is destruction of the state of Israel, which is as close to call for genocide as it can get, and it is supported by action by targeting and killing civilians.

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          The problem is that Israel doesn’t seem to give a fuck about civilian casualties. I’m all on board for wiping Hamas off the face of the earth, but shelling Gaza is not the way they should be going about it. There are way, way too many innocent people getting killed. If it was just Israel vs Hamas in a vacuum, no civilians, I’d support Israel. But this isn’t happening in a vacuum and a lot of civilians on both sides of this conflict are getting hurt or killed. You could even argue that this conflict was started by Israel as a result of the hand they had in the creation of Hamas.

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            How would you destroy Hamas? Are you saying that Hamas can do what it did, and Israel just can’t try to destroy it because Hamas uses civilians as a shield?

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        1 year ago

        I disagree with his apparent unwavering support for the Israeli government, as it seems many other people also disagree.

        Characterizing it as “calls for full-blown genocide of Palestinians” is disingenuous.

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          Call it whatever you want I guess but Israel is the one starving millions and cutting off fuel resulting in children drinking sea water and getting bombed to shit

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            They’re wiping out entire neighborhoods via bombing for fuck’s sake and the ground invasion hasn’t even happened yet