• Truth Sandwich 🥪🇺🇸😷@sfba.socialOP
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    8 months ago

    @theothersimo@mastodon.social

    Ok, and why is that? Could Israel have targeted just military buildings and avoided civilian ones? Or did Hamas blur any such distinction by using homes, schools, and hospitals as military command centers? Hint: it’s the latter, and it constitutes a war crime.

    • arceuthobium@mastodon.social
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      8 months ago

      @TruthSandwich@sfba.social Hamas didn’t invent guerilla warfare, and pretending that it’s something new is almost as gross as justifying leveling entire neighborhoods because there might be a Hamas hiding in one of the buildings. Do you think the Irgun didn’t hide themselves among the civilian population? The Stern Gang?
      Should the UN have leveled Tel Aviv after the assassination of Bernadotte, because any given building might have Lehi hiding in it?

      • Truth Sandwich 🥪🇺🇸😷@sfba.socialOP
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        8 months ago

        @theothersimo@mastodon.social

        It’s not new: terrorism is old. But talking about other things doesn’t change this one.

        No country is going to let a thousand people get slaughtered by terrorists and just shrug it off. The goal of the 10/7 massacre was to start a war, and it worked.

        • arceuthobium@mastodon.social
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          8 months ago

          @TruthSandwich@sfba.social depopulating entire cities and willfully rendering them uninhabitable isn’t war, it’s genocide. This is 1% self defense and 99% opportunistic ethnic cleansing.

            • arceuthobium@mastodon.social
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              8 months ago

              @TruthSandwich@sfba.social the existence of militants within a civilian population does not justify indiscriminate extermination of that civilian population. It didn’t in Vietnam, it didn’t in Mosul, it didn’t in Grozny, it didn’t in Aleppo, it didn’t in Mariupol, and it does not in Rafah. A month from now, Gaza will be more thoroughly destroyed than any of those (north Gaza already is).