• bobthened
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    At the same time Israel was releasing Palestinian “prisoners” (largely children and largely imprisoned for petty crimes like throwing stones) they were capturing and imprisoning from the West Bank (where there is no Hamas) roughly the same number of people as they were releasing in Gaza.

    • @iopq
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      -2011 months ago

      Throwing a stone is not a petty crime, it’s called assault with a deadly weapon

      • gregorum
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        11 months ago

        If you’re a crowd who throws 100 of them, perhaps. Not one little boy, throwing a single stone. Don’t be ridiculous.

        • @iopq
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          -1111 months ago

          When people say children, it includes people who are 16 years old.

          • gregorum
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            11 months ago

            When people say stone, it includes gravel and dust

          • @WaxedWookie
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            611 months ago

            Do you take the same attitude with your sexual partners?

          • gregorum
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            11 months ago

            a grape can be a deadly weapon under the right circumstances. that doesn’t mean it is one.

            you’re still being ridiculous.

            Head trauma is no joke is.

            yet you’re not dead. I rest my case.

            • @iopq
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              -611 months ago

              There are people who die from getting hit by a stone

              • @WaxedWookie
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                Plenty more get killed by Israelis these days.

                • @iopq
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                  Oh so that makes it okay

                  • @WaxedWookie
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                    311 months ago

                    Kids throwing rocks at the people operating the open air concentration camp they’re detained in with the food, water, power, trade and movement restricted (at best) as Israel levels their homes, displaces and kills them? You’re right - I think there’s far bigger concerns than the kids throwing rocks.

                    What do you think it says about you that you’d use a few kids throwing rocks as justification for shooting, shelling, bombing, and starving thousands of children, innocent civilians, and turning every building in the area into said rocks?

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                11 months ago

                There are the overwhelming majority who don’t

                • @iopq
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                  Majority of people who get stabbed also don’t die, is that why people here defend “children” who stabbed Israelis and went to prison?

                  • Flying Squid
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                    111 months ago

                    Why are teenagers not children? Please explain.

      • @WaxedWookie
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        1011 months ago

        What do you call killing thousands of children?

        • @iopq
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          I don’t know, why don’t you ask Hamas, since they are the experts in killing children

          • @WaxedWookie
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            711 months ago

            Suddenly you’re all bashful about slapping labels on stuff?

            It’s OK - we can try another - what do you call a group that’s killed orders of magnitude more children than the “experts in killing children”?

            • @iopq
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              -111 months ago

              Also experts in killing children. Who said either of the sides is blameless?

              • @WaxedWookie
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                211 months ago

                It’s implied in you running straight past Israel’s actions to focus on condemnation of Palestinians comparatively minor actions - or is there another explanation?

                • @iopq
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                  111 months ago

                  I don’t condemn Palestinians

                  • @WaxedWookie
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                    211 months ago

                    So what do you call the group killing many, many times more kids than the “experts in killing children”, and why did you deflect to the comparatively minor crimes of Hamas?

          • Flying Squid
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            At this point, Israel has killed far more children in this war than Hamas. So I’d say they’re both experts, but Israel is the one with more experience.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        Arresting kids for throwing rocks is petty enough as it. Labeling their actions as assault with a deadly weapon before you arrest them is just absurd.

        • @iopq
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          How is it petty? It’s actually physically dangerous to people.