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Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (22 children)

At some point you might learn that simplistic, childish concepts of pure good and evil rarely apply in this world. Yes, the Allies were the good guys in WW2. Being the good guy doesn't mean you're perfect, because absolutely nothing is.

Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established in c/[email protected]

[+] [email protected] -12 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Based on time under starvation conditions, the mass graves the IDF seems constitutionally incapable of not leaving behind, and counts of missing family members.

Can you share your methodology of calculating this number? You are not basing this on anything but your gut-feeling. Given how most of your comments consist of blindly parroting propaganda instead of even trying to form any in-depth understanding of this topic, that's not surprising. Hell, you once attacked me for trying to bring nuance into this debate, at which point I was done with you for that day, because could there be anything more intellectually bankrupt?

is there any line crossed, any action taken by the IDF that you wouldn’t automatically defend?

Sure thing. If orders to deliberately exterminating Palestinians came to light, that would certainly be it. Those should exist if the goal of the IDF, as frequently claimed by people like you who make up fantasy numbers to then feel outraged about, was genocide. Of course, this clashes with various efforts of the same IDF to prevent Palestinian civilians from being harmed, which is kind of odd, don't you think?

So either they are using e.g. roof knocking and a whole range of other warning measures just for PR-purposes (even though it significantly hurts their military efforts and their PR - Hamas can escape and the moment any building is being roof-knocked, dozens of cameras are immediately on it in order to film it, with lots of people feeling perfectly safe, trusting that this building and only this building will be hit; strange that) or the truth isn't as simple as you are so desperately trying to make it be. You haven't exactly been writing particularly well thought out comments on this topic at any point. Not that this limits your enthusiasm for your self-righteous preaching. Dunning, meet Kruger.

Do you think it is right that Palestinians prisoners should be zip tied long enough that their limbs die and need too be cut off?

No, but good job trying distracting from your fantasy numbers. This might constitute criminal neglect. Those responsible should be punished and measures should be undertaken to prevent this from occurring. While internal review processes are far from perfect at the IDF, they do at least exist and are being applied. Two senior officers responsible for ordering the recent air strikes on aid workers were sacked, for example. The same could happen here as well.

Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (66 children)

The fact that a large number of people in the West are denying this and portraying Hamas as freedom fighters is very worrying.

Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (9 children)

The number is probably closer to 100,000

Based on what exactly?

Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I suspect you are not asking in good faith, but I'm answering anyway: Methods and goals. Hamas methods are clear: Legitimate resistance doesn't deliberately and as a core policy murder, abduct and rape civilians. Hamas are no different from IS in this regard, which nobody calls resistance or freedom fighters.

Goals: Hamas actual and openly stated goal is the creation of a global Islamic caliphate and the murder and/or enslavement of all "nonbelievers", not the liberation of the Palestinian people.

U.S. Refuses to Back U.N. Calls for Probe into Mass Graves at Gaza Hospitals in c/[email protected]

US accuses China of backing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The two aren't even remotely the same and you know that.

Russia vetoes a UN resolution calling for prevention of a dangerous nuclear arms race in space in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Maybe, maybe not. Their existence and the mutually assured destruction that comes with it might be the primary factor responsible for preventing WW3 during the Cold War. The "balance of terror" is still working to this day.

U.S. Refuses to Back U.N. Calls for Probe into Mass Graves at Gaza Hospitals in c/[email protected]

Moscow pressured Nicaragua to file genocide case against Germany, intel sources say in c/[email protected]

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

Don't rob people in the ME of their own agency. The West has messed up a lot, but so have the locals. Both are at least equally to blame.

Moscow pressured Nicaragua to file genocide case against Germany, intel sources say in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The point is that Nicaragua would have never done anything like this on their own, because they have barely anything to do with the ME. The West on the other hand does. That's not entitlement, that's just a fact. We have a vested interest in what is going on there. Nicaragua is used as a pawn and it's incredibly transparent that this is happening. Same with South Africa.