10-year-old Fatima Jaafar Abdullah was killed in pager explosions in Lebanon.

Israel murders another kid again.

  • db0
    link
    fedilink
    English
    222 months ago

    I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. Is it OK for a nation state to plant bombs in suspected opponents and then explode them at random without respect for collateral damage? If Russians did the same to Americans, you’d be all “fair play, mate”?

    • @PugJesus
      link
      English
      1
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      If Russians did the same to Americans, you’d be all “fair play, mate”?

      At wartime, sure. Using explosives on enemy combatants outside of military-exclusive areas is not inherently a war crime.

      Israel is in the wrong here because it’s part and parcel of their continuing strategy of escalation in service to Netanyahu’s forever war so he can stay in power, and the collateral damage is thus pointless from any perspective except that of keeping an authoritarian in power.

      They’re not in the wrong because they chose explosives as their choice of attack against Hezbollah. Unless it comes out that their distribution of rigged pagers was utterly untargeted or something of the sort. Which I would not discount the possibility of, considering Israel’s history, but doesn’t seem to be the case according to what’s come out so far.

      • @kaffiene
        link
        English
        12 months ago

        deleted by creator

    • @CoCo_Goldstein
      link
      English
      02 months ago

      If there were an anti-Russian militia that set up shop in America and occasionally attacked Russia and Russia figured out a way to target many members of this militia and a few innocent bystanders were also injured or killed, the rest of the world would say “yeah… that is what you get” and Americans would say “Why are we allowing these armed assholes to set up shop in America and attack Russia?”

      • db0
        link
        fedilink
        English
        52 months ago

        You really believe this is is how it would play out? Astounding…

      • @PiousAgnostic
        link
        English
        2
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        Lol, if there was an anti-anybody militia that sometimes acted against other states within the US. The US would raid their complex, set it on fire, and shoot people trying to escape.

        Then, the government would blame the children and other non-combatants’ deaths on the militia. The public then will watch documentaries made on the subject over dinner.

        Pager bombs aimed at extremists are not an American concern. Even if there was a level of non-combatant causilities. If anything, it’s a fun news blip of the week and will be forgotten in less than a month.

        • @CoCo_Goldstein
          link
          English
          12 months ago

          Thanks Broseph. I totally agree with your response. I was doing my best to provide a proper analogy to db0’s question: “If Russians did the same to Americans, you’d be all “fair play, mate”?”