• @MooseLad@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Now is not the time to talk about a ceasefire. We must support Israel in efforts to eliminate the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered innocent men, women, and children. … We can talk about a ceasefire after Hamas is neutralized.

        https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/john-fetterman-israel-position-explained.html

        So basically, Fetterman believes that Israel can keep killing thousands of children as long as Hamas continues to exist.

          • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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            388 months ago

            The problem is that Israel doesn’t seem to give a fuck about civilian casualties. I’m all on board for wiping Hamas off the face of the earth, but shelling Gaza is not the way they should be going about it. There are way, way too many innocent people getting killed. If it was just Israel vs Hamas in a vacuum, no civilians, I’d support Israel. But this isn’t happening in a vacuum and a lot of civilians on both sides of this conflict are getting hurt or killed. You could even argue that this conflict was started by Israel as a result of the hand they had in the creation of Hamas.

            • MxM111
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              48 months ago

              How would you destroy Hamas? Are you saying that Hamas can do what it did, and Israel just can’t try to destroy it because Hamas uses civilians as a shield?

          • @MooseLad@lemmy.world
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            248 months ago

            That’s a little disingenuous. It’s a call for the destruction of Hamas through the means of repeatedly bombing a small, impoverished nation with no regard for who or what is destroyed.

            Israel is using airstrikes on hospitals, mosques, and schools. Fetterman is supporting the country that is responsible for 5,000 civilian deaths, tens of thousands of people injured, and 600,000 displaced people. That doesn’t sound like genocide to you? We should support bombing a country to rubble because of some terrorists that they created through their cruelty? They ration their food, their water, deny them access to shipments, deny aid, andn break agreements. Of course they created extremists.

            When you support Israel’s wanton destruction of an entire nation, you are supporting genocide.

            • Nougat
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              178 months ago

              It is entirely possible to oppose Hamas without supporting Israel.

              • YeetPics
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                18 months ago

                Absolutely not, only one thing can be true at once, we have no room for nuance here.

                (/s)

                • Nougat
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                  28 months ago

                  I only saw the first part of your comment in notifications, and I was about to go ham.

                  Standing down.

            • MxM111
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              28 months ago

              Why are you saying “with no regards”? If Israel wanted to destroy civilians , as oppose to Hamas militants, the casualties would be way, way higher. Hamas uses civilians as shield, makes military hardware storages in those mosques, and other civilian buildings. Where is your outrage for that? And are you saying that Hamas can do, what it did, purposely target and cruelly kill 1400+ civilians, continue shooting rockets trying to hit civilians, and Israel should do nothing, because Hamas uses its own civilians as human shields?

              • @MooseLad@lemmy.world
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                8 months ago

                They’ve literally leveled entire city blocks and neighborhoods, wtf are you talking about?

                EDIT: And obviously I don’t support what Hamas is doing, come on. Just that killing thousands of people via bombs is fucked up and not the best way to kill militants.

                • MxM111
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                  38 months ago

                  Honestly, do you think that Israeli deference force sees a civilian building and says “let’s down that building, because it looks like civilian and we can kill lots of people there!” or “we detected rocket launch from this location, let’s destroy the point, while minimizing civilian casualties”?

                  Seriously?

                  And then consider what Hamas is doing/has done for comparison. Answer the same questions for Hamas.

                  Yes, IDF knows that casualties are possible, and even likely, but they simply cannot stop just because Hamas uses human shields. Because then nothing would prevent Hamas to kill as many civilians as they want without ANY punishments, because they would always use human shields.

                  • @Malfeasant@lemm.ee
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                    28 months ago

                    And there it is. Fighting for survival, defending yourself, etc is one thing. “Punishment” is completely different.

                  • @MooseLad@lemmy.world
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                    18 months ago

                    So genocide is okay in your eyes as long as a fraction of the people you bomb are terrorists? How would you feel if your loved ones died and you lost your entire neighborhood because someone living a few blocks away was a terrorist? You have no food, no water, and no home because a small percentage of the people in your neighborhood performed an action that you had no part of.

                    Is it worth the current death toll? Eight thousand dead in Palestine, 24 straight days of bombing, 29 journalists killed, and 3500 dead children is okay in your book because of some terrorists? That’s not including the 21,000 people that were injured. 183,000 residential units, 221 education facilities, 24 ambulances, and 38 places of worship damaged or completely gone. 34% of hospitals on the Gaza Strip aren’t functioning. Six thousand bombs in six days. That’s the number dropped on Afghanistan in one year, and Afghanistan is 1800x bigger.

                    I understand that they are hiding behind civilians, but there is a middleground between letting Hamas run wild and threatening to turn Palestine into a deserted island.

        • @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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          138 months ago

          I’m surprised you got upvotes even with facts. The blind love and devotion for feterman here is kinda culty. The guy is a wealthy, silver spoon, nepo baby. But he puts on a hoodie so everyone here can get fooled into thinking he’s an every man.

          • @MooseLad@lemmy.world
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            118 months ago

            Yeah it’s annoying to see him championed as a blue collar guy when he grew up in an affluent neigborhood and his dad was partner at an insurance firm.

        • Nougat
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          218 months ago

          I disagree with his apparent unwavering support for the Israeli government, as it seems many other people also disagree.

          Characterizing it as “calls for full-blown genocide of Palestinians” is disingenuous.

          • @octobob@lemmy.ml
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            158 months ago

            Call it whatever you want I guess but Israel is the one starving millions and cutting off fuel resulting in children drinking sea water and getting bombed to shit

            • @octobob@lemmy.ml
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              138 months ago

              They’re wiping out entire neighborhoods via bombing for fuck’s sake and the ground invasion hasn’t even happened yet

    • @Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      If true, every left leaning epic Twitter master American politicians i hear about end up pro-genocide lol. Very progressive.