• @[email protected]
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    Looks like those guys will shoot anyone. With such a gross power imbalance how can they be so scared of everything?

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/16/middleeast/what-we-know-hostages-killed-israel-gaza/index.html

    IDF destroyed Israeli homes (with Israelis inside) when Hamas raided them on Oct 7, and now they are indiscriminantly bombing Gaza, including where the hostages might be. I don’t see the logic at all. It seems like they don’t care about Palestinian OR Israeli civilians.

    EDIT: I just stumbled upon this video, which shows Israeli police arresting a (black) Israeli soldier for trying to cross the street. It seems racist af. I really can’t figure out who they are protecting.

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      Civilian life was never a priority

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        It’s a hard sell to say that it was.

        Israel: We are using surgical strikes and guided missles to uproot Hamas.

        † 15,000 people killed †

        World: So you specifically targeted all those 15,000 people?

        Israel: How could you be so anti-semitic??

        Narrator: Turns out they were actually not trying to minimize civilian casualties at all.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          Yeah, it’s not about targeting Hamas. It’s about killing as many Palestinians and destroying as much of Gaza as possible. They said so themselves

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        71 year ago

        Yes it is, just not in the way it usually is. ENDING civilian lives is very much a priority of their genocidal campaign.

    • IWantToFuckSpez
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      It’s a military force full of conscripts it’s not a surprise they operate at an amateur level. These guys aren’t trained to rescue hostages they are only trained to shoot. There is a reason why most countries have gotten rid of conscription. Conscripted soldiers are nowhere near the level of a vetted and trained volunteer

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        111 year ago

        There is a saying: “The worst volunteer is better than the best conscript”.

      • @MotoAsh
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        51 year ago

        So… they don’t even teach what white flags mean?

    • @[email protected]
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      That’s what bothers me most: the incidence shows how Israeli military treats civilians in general but at least where I live, media doesn’t talk about the implications. The coverage is more critical than at the beginning of the war but they still refuse to call it a genocide.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        171 year ago

        Hell, they even censured a Palestinian-American congresswoman for pointing out that obvious fact!