• @scarabic
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    1461 year ago

    How do you declare war on a state you don’t recognize?

  • @[email protected]
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    791 year ago

    Wonderful. Now we have two wars that just happen to rile up needless political grandstanding for the uninvolved to fight over, so we wont have to think about the millions of innocents killed in the fighting.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        I dunno, I do sort of think that the deaths of innocent men, women, and children who lived between two warring nations is a big enough deal for us to set down our current affairs.

        Im pissed that instead its going to be used as a proxy argument for ongoing at home political pissing matches.

        This should make us pause our issues at home. Instead, its going to be used as fuel for the issues at home.

        While millions die.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          That’s actually a pretty privileged pov. The hierarchy of need isn’t very forgiving. When you can’t feed your kids, or yourself, it’s hard to give all your attention to a war going on across the world. Which is why US leaders should be leading the US first, instead of dragging foreign wars into their debates so they can try to get political points before an election.

  • @CylonBunny
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    511 year ago

    We don’t get many declarations of war these days. Usually they are just special military actions, or security operations, or something like that. What makes this different?

      • Jeena
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        161 year ago

        Wait, you think there is “no fucking reason” that Hamas exists and is doing what they’re doing?

        • @sock
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          -11 year ago

          what is their goal if not to bring harm to civilians

          they arent powerful enough to fight. some dumbass religious cause doesnt matter because their religion is fake they are fighting for a dick size contest and hamas has a micropenis, yet is still antagonizing.

          i hate israel but frankly hamas is really trying to lose support rn

          • @[email protected]
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            1 year ago

            Obviously hamas isnt justified, but they arent attacking for no reason.

            Its a terrorist group declaring war on a country, because a different terrorist group launched a horrid attack as revenge for previous terrorist attacks.

    • @scarabic
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      41 year ago

      Israel is constantly catastrophizing their situation to win sympathy and demonize their enemy. Usually they try to avoid this kind of language because, being the only ones with an organized military, it would be a bad look to be at war with a bunch of refugees. But since they’ve been attacked they’re doing everything they can to paint that attack in the most bombastic terms possible 1) to win sympathy and 2) to justify the military devastation they are about to unleash on a civilian population.

  • @[email protected]
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    411 year ago

    Following our decades-long invasion of Palestine and continually calling for Palestine’s removal and the genocide of the Palestinian people, we are now calling it war.

    • @Earthwormjim91
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      31 year ago

      Damn, maybe palestine should have accepted the two state plan in 1947 instead of trying to eliminate all Israeli Jews at the time.

      Israel accepted it. Palestine started killing civilians. Then got their asses handed to them repeatedly.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        You have to understand though, prior to the UN proposal, it was all just Palestine. Why should the Palestinians have accepted a UN (foreign, primarily western at the time) proposal to give half of their land to a minority who only began immigrating there en masse in the last 50 years? This was the period of decolonization, and while the rest of the Arab world and Africa was gaining their independence, Palestine was just getting a new map drawn on them by their western colonizers.

        It’s easy to say with another 70 years of perspective that it didn’t work out for them, but in 1947 Israel was nothing more than an idea championed by a minority of religious extremists, viewed as terrorists even in the west.

        • @Earthwormjim91
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          21 year ago

          Prior to the UN proposal it was a British territory. Before that it was part of the Ottoman Empire.

          Palestine has never existed as an independent state.

          • @Dkarma
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            -11 year ago

            Correct. However it was never israels. Can we at least agree on that?

            • @Earthwormjim91
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              21 year ago

              Depends on how long you go back. It was Israel/Judea for over 1000 years before the Arab Conquest forced Jews to be scattered to the winds in the first place.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Wow, how gracious of israel, with the backing of the most powerful militaries in the world arrayed against a country without significant military allies, to nominally agree to a two-state plan and then for 75 years violate treaties, kill civilians and constantly invade the other state that essentially can’t fight back.

        Super brave of them to constantly show force with the US military backing them.

        I’m sure Israel appreciates you admiring their genocide.

        • @sock
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          01 year ago

          what if u were israel

          should israel just let palestine attack and have israel intentionally hold back the fact they are much more powerful? if you poke a bear and get mauled do we blame the bear?

          in america we would likely blame the bear but folks dont get consequences now.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Wow all over the wrong map. No, in American wildlife conservation and training, the wild animal is not blamed because humans have the ability to plan and reason and animals have an extremely limited ability to plan and reason and are practically only able to react.

            You compare Israel to a mindless beast without the ability to plan or reason, ignoring that Israel has been invading Palestine for 75 years, carrying out a obvious territorial expansion “plan” according to their"reason"(I want it and I am stronger than you).

            You’re incorrect that Israel is doing this as mindless reactionaries, But you’re probably making that assumption because as an American you are trained to be reactionary and hold knee-jerk reactions in high regard.

            A bunch of Saudi Arabians bombed your New York! Quick, let’s invade several unrelated countries! How reasonable. What a good plan. 80% approval ratings.

            This declaration of war, if followed through, is a continuation of the systematic territorial invasion and execution of Palestinian civilians that has been going on for most of a century.

            It’s just going to happen faster now.

    • @hark
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      21 year ago

      Gaza was doomed anyway. The West Bank was also doomed. Any land that the far-right fascists in Israel have their eyes on is doomed because they have the full force of the west backing them (no matter if they pretend to wag their finger at them from time to time) and they’ve got other countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia backing them. The plan all along was to take the land and it was only a matter of time. GG, enjoy your ethnostate, fascists.

      • @FordBeeblebrox
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        11 year ago

        Enjoy it but the trouble is, we in the US have those assholes occasionally wagging a finger, while scooping every public dollar into buckets to shower on these Israeli assholes while they scream about wokeness and gay folk and trans folk and who’s bathroom is who’s….all the while actively trying to bring about a holy war they think will bring jeebus back or whatever.

        Radical religious terrorism is the thing that will keep us from reaching the stars. We’re not ready for other cultures when we can’t even manage our own

        • @Stovetop
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          11 year ago

          The US has to side with Israel on an ideological level because it is just as culpable for what it did to the indigenous inhabitants of North America who lived there first.

    • @gmtom
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      -31 year ago

      Will people stop using war crimes so flippantly.

    • @scarabic
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      21 year ago

      War continues but the scale really is miniscule compared to the 1900s.

      26,000 American soldiers died in 36 days of fighting on Iwo Jima.

      1900 Americans were killed in 20 years in Afghanistan.

      I don’t minimize any deaths here, but the direction the numbers are going in gives me hope for the future, not despair.

        • @scarabic
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          21 year ago

          Yes civilian deaths were higher. But military deaths are able to be counted more reliably so they are easier to compare.

          Estimates are that 38 million civilians died in WW2, so there you go. That number is way higher too.

          • @Dkarma
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            -11 year ago

            Oh so if you just don’t count civilians your original statement seems true. I’m sure the million dead are consoled by that.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    This seems like a really unevenly weighted war. Israel has nukes and is supported by most of the west. Vengeance and violence are also never a good mix so this will likely get ugly fast. It’ll be interesting to see where the line is, if it exists at all, on how much violence the West will publicly support.

  • NimNim
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    -191 year ago

    Good! I hope they wipe Gaza off of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and their supporters once and for all.

    • @FMT99
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      171 year ago

      I’m sure more bombing will solve this problem once and for all. It always worked so well in the past.