DdCno1

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Hamas went all in hoping that once all of the other Muslim nations saw their merry slaughter of Jews, they would happily and immediately join in and attack Israel from all sides to complete the attempted genocide. They forgot about or chose to ignore a few things:

Israel has nukes and would use them if they felt fundamentally threatened, Israel has conventionally defeated every army that has ever attacked them (if sometimes by the skin of their teeth), has made reluctant, but reliable allies out of some of their former enemies and crippled others. Hamas didn't consider that Biden would protect Israel and fully commit to it, they kept the preparations for their attack so secret that only Tehran and Moscow knew about them, but crucially not Hezbollah (which ended up being muzzled by the American carrier groups anyway) and they gave nobody the necessary heads up for the months of buildup required for a full on war, because that would have given the whole thing away. While Hamas skillfully (with Russian and Iranian help) overcame the border defenses, they wasted the element of surprise on random carnage instead of overrunning the same airfields that have since been launching thousands of sorties that are, day by day, obliterating their organization.

And so on and so forth. The entire idea was foolish from the start and had no chance of success. Not that Moscow and Tehran expected any. They just used Hamas as pawns, hoping to weaken the US with this conflict. It's the standard zero sum game that autocrats love to play so much.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Would you mind providing the source of this visualization so that I can read further into this? Thanks!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's not what I said and you know that.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Hamas killed soldiers so that they would free to go on their rampage against civilians. Israel accidentally kills civilians as they are trying to fight an enemy that hides behind them and camouflages themselves as civilians precisely to blur the lines between civilians and soldiers. That's the difference between the two.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've watched that beheading and worse things. I wish I hadn't. Imagine having the audacity of calling Hamas saints by comparison. What a despicable and inane thing to do.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

I'm not American. You criticized me for making an assumption about people by making an assumption about me.

Also, is it really that unreasonable to ask of people to look up what they are shouting? To have even a passing knowledge of what they decided to protest for or against?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Hamas was also not in power back then, in no position to accept or reject any solution.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Here's a fun game: Ask people who shout "From the river to the sea" which river and which see are meant and what this statement implies. The results are unsurprising.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago

That's why they have almost five times the population now compared to 1960. Contrast this to to Israel, which has only four times the population it had back then.

https://i.imgur.com/oOPAsex.jpg

Notice how population growth is accelerating. How does that make any sense?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What is it with your constant attempts at whitewashing Hamas? There were four alerts in Israel due to rockets launched from Gaza on that same day.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Like the other user said, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa only became successful after it abandoned violent resistance - and citing Haiti as an aspirational example is downright hysterical.

There's also a massive difference between demanding outright perfection and not applauding people who behead Asian guest workers (who, as I'm sure you are aware, but equally willing to ignore, are not "evil Zionist colonizers") with a rusty gardening hoe while live-streaming the torture-murder on the Internet. Coincidentally, you seem to have no trouble with demanding outright perfection from the IDF, who, by the way, has a roughly similar soldier kill rate in this conflict according to most estimates - but I bet you are not willing to applaud them for that.

As for what Gaza actually was, here's what this supposed "concentration camp" looked like before the war:

https://youtu.be/W1r1z3x53ZU

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