• @Altofaltception
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    322 months ago

    Netanyahu did in fact not “take the win”.

    Reminder that Israel couldn’t even defend itself from Iran: they had to enlist Jordan and Egypt, plus the US and UK. All because a stupid warmonger is in charge.

    • @DoomBot5
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      92 months ago

      We don’t really know that they couldn’t, just that they didn’t

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        32 months ago

        Yeah, they definitely could. Despite their bogus victim narrative, they’re by far the most militarily powerful and active country in the region.

        • @[email protected]
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          -32 months ago

          I sometimes wish Hamas had the military capabilities of Israel and vice versa so the world would see what they’d use them for.

          • @Viking_Hippie
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            12 months ago

            So you sometimes wish for the annihilation of an entire country just so you can go “we told you so”?

            That’s not ghoulish and fucking unhinged at all, no sirree! 😬

            • @[email protected]
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              What? Nooo. They would obviously take control of the situation there, put forward a two state solution and everyone would live happily ever after. Now it’s Israel with the military capabilities of Israel that’s annihilating an entire country… …is what a pro-Hamas person would probably say.

              • @Viking_Hippie
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                02 months ago

                Fun fact: you can be against terrorism and genocide at the same time. In fact, most people not blinded by gaslighting and other disinformation are.

                • @[email protected]
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                  12 months ago

                  I count myself among them.

                  My original point being that Israel does have that capability yet they’re not using it to the fullest. They could commit a literal genocide if they wanted but they don’t. Hamas would but they can’t.

                  • @Viking_Hippie
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                    -12 months ago

                    Israel does have that capability yet they’re not using it to the fullest

                    Oh they’re only committing genocide at 30% of their maximum power? Well, that’s alright then! It’s not a war crime if you’re able to do even worse, after all! 🙄

                    They could commit a literal genocide if they wanted but they don’t

                    That’s not true. They ARE committing a literal genocide by all but one of the criteria listed in the Genocide Convention itself:

                    … any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:

                      • (a) Killing members of the group;

                      • (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

                      • © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

                      • (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

                      • (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

                        — Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2[7]

      • JayTreeman
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        12 months ago

        The cost was significant though. It’s not like Israel can afford to do that often.

        • @DoomBot5
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          12 months ago

          Yup, hence the assistance from other countries.