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  • BeautifulMind ♾️
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    861 year ago

    So if it’s a total blockade now, what was it before? (hint: it was also a blockade then, has been since 2007)

    It’s saddening to see Israel’s military (which is not Israel) attack civilians and civilian infrastructure in retaliation for Hamas (which is not Palestine) having attacked civilians and civilian infrastructure- this is all a shit-show of punishing the innocent to get the other side to back down and it will never end.

      • @Aqarius@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Other nation on land you claim

        box them in, stop food shipments

        Wait, that kinda reminds me of something recent…

    • @ThisIsJohnny@lemmy.world
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      131 year ago

      Well it’s one thing to blockade a region during a war/conflict (which even has a border with Egypt) and killing and raping hundreds of festival attendees…

    • @mwguy@infosec.pub
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      101 year ago

      It was a blockade looking for components that could be used to make rockets. Goods could (and did) come through after inspection.

      • BeautifulMind ♾️
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        11 year ago

        Eventually you have to stop letting your enemy make the rules, and defend yourself.

        Well, it looks to me like both sides are convinced that unless they punish the other side, the other side will keep on doing what they’ve been doing. Acting on that belief only provides evidence for the other side for the case that the other will stop at nothing but the other’s extinction, that the only rational course of action is yet more offensive action until the other side finally capitulates- …which seems unlikely to ever happen so long as Palestine remains the accepted battlefield for the proxy war that this conflict is.

        Yes, Hamas commits war crimes by using civilian infra Yes, Israel commits war crimes by bombing it The context of this exchange of atrocities is… the occupation of Gaza, which meets too many of the measures of a genocide. At this point, neither Israel nor Hamas are defending themselves, they’re cooperating in the genocide of Palestinians The broader context of that is that Israel:Palestine is a proxy conflict between their respective allies, who are just fine watching Palestine burn