• quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      As absurd as it sounds, a conventional “war” with boots on the ground at least grants the perpetrators some sort of cover. If they killed the entire population with this method or with a nuke or something, they could no longer frame the genocide as a war between two standing armies. It would dispel any illusions that Israel is embattled or persecuted by the Palestinians and is only reacting to a threat. As dumb as that logic is, it is the veil of plausibility that the general public uses to willfully maintain their ignorance.

      • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        Also, flooding the earth with seawater makes the land harder to inhabit for settlers afterward, and could fuck up the water table in adjacent areas as well. This is likely the same reason Israel is reluctant to use nukes – They want that land to be worth stealing at the end of the day.

        • Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          To add to this, a huge part of the Israeli propaganda machine focused on Evangelicals leans heavily on the idea that Israel ‘makes the deserts bloom’ via magic irrigation techniques only white people could figure out so polluting the land specifically with sea water might be too bad a look for them on that front

      • WayeeCool [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Lesson the US military eventually learned in Vietnam after camera and television technology had matured to the point the general public got to witness weapons of mass destruction in use. Until that point there was no real backlash whenever the US military fire bombed entire cities. In the WW2 Pacific theater the US killed over a hundred thousand civilians at a time fire bombing Japanese cities and no one gave a fk but when the public watched on their living room televisions the same tactics being used in Vietnam there was backlash.

        I guess the lesson learned was that after the advent of video mass media you gotta only kill hundreds of civilians at a time and if you do shit like depoy a weapon that kills tens to hundreds of thousands at a time the public starts getting squeamish.

  • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]@hexbear.net
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    Erik Prince is definitely in the running for “most ontologically evil American” which is a feat in of itself. The high brass and top government position ghouls doing heinous shit in the state department and DHS have the veil of being “adults in the room making tough choices” and “professional bureaucrats” with some distance from the brutality and suffering their work inflicts that are “just doing their job,” and the most immediately grotesque bloodthirsty killer boots on the ground operator guys like the Navy Seal serial killer sniper that kept killing civilians for shits and giggles that was so egregious that the rest of his squad deliberately fucked with his scope so he couldn’t shoot more innocent people and testified against him at his conviction (that Trump eventually pardoned) are at best directly responsible for three figure death tolls on their own. Prince has all the worst attributes of both, a former door kicking ghoul JSOC guy turned Calvinists dominionist freak running Private Warcrimes Incorporated LLC that spends his blood money and time coming up with Bond villain shit to help the Zionist entity complete their genocide.

    First page black-book material