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    So, no warning, indiscriminate attacks that will,purposely harm civilians? This is awful. Hamas have already said they will execute hostages if there are unwarned attacks, so we can expect this to escalate on both sides.

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      Sadly, yes. Israel is probably getting ready for an ethnic cleansing of the Gaza strip. As per the hostages, it seems like Israel has deemed them as dead already.

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      From the linked article, emphasis mine:

      In certain circumstances, [roof knocking] will be used, the source says, but today Israel is already evacuating masses of the Gaza populace from central terrorist areas and attacking there.

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        There are also reports of people being ordered to leave their homes and head to the cbd, which is then bombed. It’s a warzone, though, so I’m sure we won’t get fully accurate information.

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      maybe hamas shouldn’t have killed hundreds of civilians purely to provoke a response? maybe the Palestinians should leave now? maybe they shouldn’t vote a dead cult like Hamas in as their government?

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        Yes, Hamas should absolutely not have killed a single Israeli civilian or any civilian period. But none of your maybes justify more killing of civilians in Gaza.

        Even if people in Gaza, who are constantly all their lives between a rock and a hard place with no clean water and no future prospects, voted for Hamas, still it does not justify Israel killing civilians.

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          I never said it ‘justifies’ it. Unless the civilians clear out, it is unfortunately inevitable. The difference is israelies arent going to be using their forces specifically to target civilians, unlike the other lot of animals

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          none of your maybes justify more killing of civilians in Gaza.

          War is war.

          If the allies had avoided making any civilian casulties, the nazis would have won the war.

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              It’s not ethical. It’s war. War isn’t like in the movies.

              Hitler could have spent the war in an appartment in the middle of Berlin, safe in the knowledge no one would ever dare bomb him. Stalin could have nuked NATO, safe in the knowledge NATO wouldn’t ever retaliate. If we allowed monsters who hide between civilians get away with it, they would inherit the earth. ISIS could tie a few civilians to the top of their tank, and murder us all. The Lord’s Resistance Army could have freely marched into town to procure a few more child sex slaves, because they were protected by the children they had previously abducted.

              There are no good guys or bad guys in this conflict. Both sides have stolen land. A third of Israel’s population are ‘arab’ jews. They’ve lived in the region for millenia, and have just as much right to a country as the Palestinians. Let’s not pretend they’d be safe in a Palestinian state or welcomed if they fled to neighbouring countries, given how popular Mein Kampf still is in the region. You’d be exchanging defacto Apartheid for genocide.

              And let’s not pretend that the Israelis have always undermined the peace process. For example, it’s no coincidence that Israeli politics shifted to the right after 2000, when Arafat walked away from further negotiations at Camp David, something even the Saudi ambassador described as criminal, and despite the Israeli PM offering far reaching and deeply unpopular concessions. Of course, Israel also helped Hamas’ rise to power, so once again no good guys or bad guys.

              It’s a mess and now it’s a messy war.

              All we can do is urge both sides to limit civilian casulties, not target them deliberately, but they are inevitable.

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        Where the fuck do you expect over 2 million Palestinians to go? They can’t exactly walk right into Israel.

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          the open border to Egypt. What would you do with your family if you were in that situation? Be honest, get out of your armchair, dust off the cheeto crumbs from your fingers and think about it like a normal person.

          You’d go. You’d put your family above ideology. If you dont, I really find it hard to sympathise, especially if you were celebrating in the streets in the last few days about a bunch of dead teenagers

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            Right, yeah, just give up their homes. That sounds reasonable.

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              Refugees to Europe: “they should just stay home, we can’t deal with thousands of refugees!”

              Refugees to Egypt: “Why aren’t 2 million people just fleeing?”

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                  i cant see the context, but the answer is probably hamas. Any other brain tinglers you got there?

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                    Starts with an I, ends with an L.

                    Israel have for years been treating the Gaza Palestinians like second class citizens, apartheid style. Is that a good amount of context for you?

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            According to your own logic, the Jews should have never needed Israel handed back to them then.

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            So why did the Jews come back to Israel to begin with? Not that your condescending bullshit of a comment is worth replying to.

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            One small border crossing (that is not exactly the most open) for over 2 million people into a country that is ideal hostile to Palestinians? Great option. /s

            And how exactly is that not ethnic cleansing?

            And no, there were not over 2 million Palestinians celebrating in the streets after the terrorist attacks. Get your head out of your ass.

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          so hamas is a terroist dictatorship. who broke into their neighboors place, slaughtered hundreds of innocents for no reason at all, kidnapped dozens more and threaten to kill them, and these are the guys you think are awesome

          least bloodthirsty lemming

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        I said this in another thread and I will say it again here:

        I always find it odd how people blame “extremists” and the Palestinians for this.

        Israel starts to steal homes, land and killing men, children and women. No one bat an eye to that.

        Then extremists and hate towards Israel came and bam, they are the bad ones suddenly.

        Certainly what Hamas does is entirely wrong however - People cannot expect them be silent and get killed by Israeli forces.

        This is what happens from decades upon decades of oppression.

        This entire conflict was created by Israel stealing land and starting a genocide mission on Palestinians.

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          they are the bad ones suddenly.

          In my eyes, yes. I was absolutely a ‘both sides are as bad as each other’ person 3 days ago. Now Its obvious one side is objectively worse and crossed a line that cant be walked back without serious blood and retribution

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            Israel crossed that line every single day. Literally every single day for 75 years.

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              yeah well when you go and massacre innocents any ‘greivance’ you have can go take a hike

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                So if Israel can bomb Gaza for the actions of Hamas, by that logic (which I strongly disagree with), Hamas can also go around bombing Israel because they kill civilians on the fly.

                Right?

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            Israel crossed that line and continues to cross it every year.

            You don’t care.

            Hamas crosses the line once, you’re magically no longer concerned with the suffering of the Palestinians.

            Give me a break, what a cop-out answer.

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              lots of horrible people exposing themselves as not caring about innocent people caught in the crossfire of this war like this

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              you support terrorism and the slaughtering of innocents. You would be right at home with the protestors in sydney today chanting ‘gas the jews’ (yes, they literally were saying that)

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                Isn’t that exactly what Israel is proposing to do in retaliation? And let’s be honest has been doing for decades.

                It’s completely fucked and both sides are awful.

                But it’s the civilians on both sides that pay the highest price.

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                  both sides are fucked, but no, israel is not proposing to go in specifically to murder civilians and target civilians.

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                    Many high ranking Israeli politicians have directly called for the genocide of Palestinians.

                    Many Palestinians die every year due to Israeli crimes against humanity.

                    Israel has cut off food and water to 2 million people.

                    No siree, Israel is innocent and it’s just one side.

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            Hypocrisy at its finest.

            EDIT: so basically you are saying, you are fine with Israel killing millions upon millions of Palestinian people but when it Hamas is doing the exact same thing that’s wrong.

            EDIT 2: how can you be “be for both sides”? One side is committing genocide and the other is fighting for their right to live. Hamas was literally created around 1987s to fight back for Palestinians lives.

            When peaceful revolution is impossible, violence revolution is inevitable.