• Ooops
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        You say that like it actually means something…

      • @Thrillhouse
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        51 year ago

        Not kill civilians is certainly a good place to start.

          • @Thrillhouse
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            Yes sure just let me sit here and solve the global issue of terrorism. What to do about any terrorist group? This is not the only conflict where terrorists operate. If I could solve the issue of how to stop terrorists then I’d be a billionaire.

            This is why it must be looked at in terms of collateral damage to avoid when hunting terrorists.

        • @Zippy
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          But how do you do that with certainty not a single civilian will be killed? Or do you let the terrorist act without any repercussions?

      • Silverseren
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        Not kill everyone there as your method of dealing with the situation. It’s literally a hostage situation on multiple fronts and Israel is choosing to kill everyone, hostages included.

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            That’s only a question when you conpletely ignore history and pretend that nothing happened before. Terrorist don’t jsut pop up randomly. They are created by circumstances.

            You shouldn’t ask “what’s the solution to a terrorist group embedded in a civil population”. Your actual question should be “What did we do to create that problem and how could if have been prevented?”. Even if you only ask that to not do the same shit again…

            And in Israel’s case the answer is very easy. They could have worked on peace and independence of Palestinia 30 years ago, like it was planend when the National Autority was created to gradually do that. Instead they spend more than a decade on being happy with the status quo of an occupation they don’t even had to pay for as that was covered by international partners… until Hamas got a majority in 2006. Then they could have supported the peaceful government in their fight against Hamas ~15 years ago. Instead they watched cheering for Palestinians fighting other Palestinians… until Hamas controlled Gaza. And then they could have still spend more than a decade of limiting Hamas’ influence. Instead it was Israel’s government that used Hamas as an excuse to to show the National Authority wasn’t speaking for all Palestinians and so they wouldn’t need to work with them for any peace.

            30 years of bullshit and then asking “what do we do about Hamas?” when the real question is “why did we create Hamas like it is today and why are we still continuing the exact same course?”.

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      It very much appears it was a Hamas missile that hit the hospital.

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        It seems still way too early to tell. Some early reporting said there was no crater; Bellingcat is saying they can spot a crater. I read other reporting saying it could be another Islamic terrorist faction that isn’t Hamas or Hezbollah - sorry can’t remember the name.

        No matter what group did this to Palestinians it is an atrocity. Hamas carried out a terrorist attack on Israeli soil, which is also an atrocity.

        No civilian deserves to be injured because of where they live.

      • BabyWah
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        The more you repeat it, the less I believe you.

      • @Thrillhouse
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        81 year ago

        That’s such an overly simplistic solution for a complex issue, though.

        Using that logic no despotic regime should ever be in power. But they are and have been and will continue to be.

        The Taliban shouldn’t be back in power in Afghanistan, and Russia should just ditch Putin. People just need to read the 2nd amendment and grab their guns, gotcha.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          There are a lot of non-despotic regimes that exist now because of rebellions against their former despots.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions

          It’s a long fucking list. It’s going to keep getting longer too,

          Just because it can be done, doesn’t mean it happens immediately. The people have to want it, and I honestly don’t think either the Palestinians or the Israelis want to change the situation right now, they’re quite content to try to annihilate each other.

          If you ask the average person there, of course they’ll say the other side shouldn’t be hurting them, but they also aren’t asking their own side to stop fighting.

      • livus
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        They(the larger group of people who don’t want this) could do something to change that

        Just curious, is this what you think about civilians in North Korea as well? That it’s their own fault?

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        Are the Palestinian people cracking down on Hamas themselves? No, Hamas is operating as their government on the strip.

        Yeah… those bad Palestinians not doing anything against Hamas while they took control of Gaza… oh, wait. That’s not what actually happenend.

        Was Israel cracking down on Hamas 16 years ago when there were open fights between Hamas and Palestinians fighting against them? Or were they sitting on the sideline gloating and watching Palestinians fighting other Palestinians until Hamas controlled Gaza?

        Was Isreal cracking down on Hamas in Gaza in the last decade? Or were they just using Hamas as an excuse to kill civilians and to argue that the National Authority obviously doesn’t speak for all Palestinians, so there is no need to talk to them or work for peaceful solution?

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Why should it have been Israel’s job to stop a civil war that’s happening in a non-Israeli controlled territory?

          Clearly Hamas has significant support among Palestinians.

          "In the poll, 53% of the 1,200 Palestinians surveyed said they believed Hamas is “most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people.” https://www.npr.org/2023/10/12/1204881032/hamas-israel-attack-palestinians

          Palestinians want revenge more than they want peace and so do the Israelis, nothing will change about this situation until both sides choose differently. Sucks for all the people who do want peace, but the people perpetuating this are significant groups of people, not simply fringe elements on each side.

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            Why should it have been Israel’s job to stop a civil war that’s happening in a non-Israeli controlled territory?

            But that’s the point: It happened in Israeli-controlled territory. They did nothing for a decade after 1993 while de facto still occupying the areas with no change in sight, then wondered why the National Authority lost support in the population and then still couldn’t bring themselved to support that peaceful government cooperating with them over radicals bent on destroying Israel.

            That’s the level of priority peace actually had for Israel. They created Hamas support in the first place by a decade of governing the status quo when the plan should have been to gradually work for more autonomy for Palestinians and peaceful co-existence, then they indirectly supported Hamas by using them for even more excuses to not move on with the planned peace process and now they pretend they have no other choice but killing Palestinians to root out Hamas. When in reality they had a lot of choices for 30 years. And chose the route of escalation every single time.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              Israel doesn’t really claim Gaza as their own territory. Other countries say they’re responsible, but they don’t even try to operate there.

              Like I said earlier, both groups are happy to keep trying to exterminate each other. Palestinians are not innocent civilians, and neither are the Israelis. They have majority support for the fighting to continue.