• DarkGamer
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    a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.

    Sounds like a nation to me.
    Hamas is the government of Gaza.
    When one’s government goes to war, the people who live under it are subjected to the consequences. This is how war works.

    • Flying Squid
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      77 months ago

      That still sounds like you’re saying all of those children’s deaths were justified.

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        It’s terrible, it’s tragic, it’s unfortunate, but yes it’s justified provided these deaths are collateral damage when attacking valid military targets, as it seems they are.

        What is not justifiable is using them as human shields and hiding among them. This is what caused these deaths: Hamas murdering Israeli civilians while hiding behind the children of their own nation.

        Why Palestinians don’t have more outrage for Hamas than they do for the IDF is beyond me.

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            Yeah they sure were accused of doing a terrible thing 10 years ago by the incredibly biased against Israel UN, If true I condemn that too.

            • Flying Squid
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              77 months ago

              I see, so you totally believe the IDF’s claim that these 90 men were terrorists, but the UN is definitely incredibly biased and because it happened 10 years ago, it doesn’t count.

              Interesting.

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                I never said it didn’t count, but I would say it’s not terribly relevant to the Israel Hamas war that’s going on right now, and has not caused comparable deaths even if true. It just seems like an attempt at false equivalency between Hamas and IDF.

                While it’s good to be skeptical, the IDF is far more credible than their opponents or their detractors. They could still be lying but I’m not going to presume they are without evidence.

                Regarding UN bias against Israel:

                • Flying Squid
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                  57 months ago

                  the IDF is far more credible than their opponents or their detractors.

                  Based on what reasoning?

                  • DarkGamer
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                    The fact that they present video evidence to support their claims, that they have so much scrutiny upon them, that most of the disputed claims they make end up being verified, and because frankly in this conflict I consider them the good guys. After watching October 7th footage, I believe Hamas earned what it’s getting.

                    I’m certainly not going to readily believe the perpetual aggressor who pretends they are a victim as soon as they get counter attacked, who hides among civilians, openly commits war crimes, advocates for genocide, performs acts of terrorism, committed ethnic cleansing, oppresses women and lgbt people, while falsely screaming that Israel is doing the same to them like a boy crying wolf.

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      There’s supposed to be international law that restrains nations when they go to war. Instead, Israel is butchering children by the thousands.