• Jaded@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    I guess you would have a point if Israel didn’t routinely bomb civilians and didn’t routinely lie about it.

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      11 months ago

      They don’t routinely lie about it. They pre-drop little fliers that say “we’re about to bomb here; if you don’t want to die you better leave” and then they come back in a couple of days or weeks and bomb. What on Earth would they lie about? “Wow, a bomb went off right where we dropped leaflets saying it would, but it definitely wasn’t us.”

      The only bombing they actually did lie about is this one, where Hamas beefed a rocket launch and struck one of their own hospitals and Israel said “yeah, we were active in the zone” before anyone knew it wasn’t an Israeli weapon.

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        I’ve never understood how dropping a flyer on someone’s house letting them know they’re going to be bombed stops Hamas. What’s stopping Hamas from fleeing as soon as they see the flyer?

        The only person then impacted by the bombing is the guy whose house you bombed.

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          11 months ago

          They’re willing to accept a lower success rate for a lower civilian casualty rate - isn’t that exactly what you want?

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            11 months ago

            Riiight… the genocidal mass-murderers (supposedly) wants a “lower civilian casualty rate.”

            Riiight.

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              11 months ago

              Perhaps the “genocidal mass murderers” is the part in error

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                11 months ago

                Perhaps the “genocidal mass murderers” is the part in error

                Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - I take it you have some?

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              11 months ago

              There are significantly easier and less expensive ways to do that, so this seems unlikely

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          11 months ago

          They are bombing areas where intelligence gather puts Hamas activity, safe houses and other assets that can’t easily be relocated. If Hamas tries to move military equipment,IDF is watching the area to strike when they come out in the open. If nobody leaves they strike the area as planned.

          If you knew your neighbor had a rocket launch system in his basement they you personally saw him firing off towards a nearby city, and for reasons we won’t discuss decided not to inform the authorities, and then one day woke up to your street being blanketed with fliers saying bombs were going to strike the location because of militant activity why would you stay?

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          I’ve never understood how dropping a flyer on someone’s house letting them know they’re going to be bombed stops Hamas.

          You can’t move a tunnel entrance. Hamas can run away, but they’re still going to get a building collapsed on top of the tunnel entrance.

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        They pre-drop little fliers that say “we’re about to bomb here; if you don’t want to die you better leave” and then they come back in a couple of days or weeks and bomb.

        They used to do that. They aren’t in this war.

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          11 months ago

          No, they’re still doing it. The flyers have been on social media, even.

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            11 months ago

            They actually dropped flyers for people to go to a refugee camp. The people who listened and went to the refugee camp then got bombed by israel in the camp.

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        The fact you’re getting downvoted so much is just another reminder how feelings matters more than facts to certain groups of people.

        All sides in this war suck but the constant dogpiling against Israel when Hamas uses child labor to dig their tunnels is telling of how people view this conflict.

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          11 months ago

          They’re being downvoted is because Israel was caught lying about it. Multiple times. And because Israel has bombed places without dropping flyers (or dropping flyers with wrong information) many times in this war.

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            But they don’t have to drop flyers at all! Indeed they probably shouldn’t, in the hopes of catching Hamas by surprise. But even after Oct 7th they’re trying as hard as they practically can to keep civilian casualties to a minimum even though they could end the war against Hamas a lot faster, and with fewer Israeli casualties, if they didn’t.

            Israeli Jews are bleeding to keep Gazans safe, and their “gratitude” is continued, universal antisemitism among Gazans. Incredible. Is there a more ungrateful people in existence than the Palestinians?

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              11 months ago

              What the fuck is wrong with you? I refuse to even engage with this, but like seriously, you should reflect on what you just said.

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                11 months ago

                It’s wild seeing astroturfing from these accounts. That and the total dehumanization of Palestinians.

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                11 months ago

                Nothing’s “wrong” with me. I’m telling you what is obviously true. Israel is fighting to preserve human life against enemies that completely disregard it.

                No thinking person can look at what’s going on in Gaza and disagree. I don’t see how that’s even possible.