• porkins@sh.itjust.works
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    That’s like going to Camden for vacation and being surprised Picachu when you get mugged.

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      Mariam went to visit her family in Gaza before Saturday’s surprise attack on Israel by Hamas.

      How dare she go visit her family.

      Didn’t they know not to be born as victims of Israeli crimes‽

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        There’s something about this mentality that is so fucked that I can’t even.

        It’s a place where people live. It’s not like they just walk around for years waiting to be killed by Israeli rockets. They’re not background actors in some episodic war movie or character actors in some horror version of Disney land.

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        Her family voted in a terrorist organization that decided it was a good idea to poke the bear by committing an act of terror.

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          Her family voted in Israel?

          Damn well if they responsible for those genocidal fucks they should be held responsible.

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        Gaza is in the grip of terrorists who abuse population as their shield and keep drawing fire on them. As long as they are in power and the population is unable to get rid of them this is not a place for a child to go and visit relatives. Who allowed that to happen?

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          If Israel found an attack from Hamas at this point as hard to imagine as they claim to, why in the world would we expect civilians to be better informed.

          Some people, obviously mistakenly, believed Hamas to have cooled down a little bit and to be genuinely interested in making the lives of civilians a little bit easier. The terrorist attacks of course illustrated forcefully that this was not the case, but it’s hard to blame civilians for being surprised by this when Mossad apparently had no way of seeing it coming either.

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            It is not some new development that Hamas is a terrorist group that hides behind the population. It is also not new that they are not about to leave Gaza voluntarily so they will have to be forcefully removed at some point by someone. If you managed to get out of Gaza it is a grave mistake to go back there for a vacation. As long as it is a hideout for terrorists it will be a target of their victims.

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              It’s easy to say this now, not so obvious a week ago.

              Assuming you’re right - why the hell was the IDF so goddamn unprepared?

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                This has been 75 years in the making. It was obvious a week ago, a year ago and a decade ago.

                My guess is that IDF was not unprepared. They knew - politics took the wheel and they just ignored all the warnings.

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                Why should I know that? I’m not the care taker of Israel. They should not have left Gaza unwatched and allowed terrorists to cross into Israel. And her parents should not have sent a child into a Hamas lead city.

                Hamas showed once again that they are terrorists who want Israel gone and the people of Gaza have to suffer for it because no one cared for removing Hamas or stopping them before they once again attacked Israel.

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                  There are terrorists on both sides. It’s easy for you to preach from your high horse. When was the last time you felt in danger of dying? What about the last time you didn’t have clean water and food? Not being allowed to see your lover ones?

                  You fucking disconnected hypocrite.

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                    It’s also very easy for you to demand that the people of Israel should just accept getting attacked by Hamas once in a while while everyone pretends it’s alright that Gaza is governed by terrorists who have made it their official goal to genocide the Jews. This conflict can only be solved with cooperation but that is not possible with Hamas.

                    You fucking disconnected hypocrite.

                    That does not make any sense but you can stuff that in your ass anyways.

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              Lol. You’re new to the conflict in the area?

              People that lose everything get radicalized and even if you manage to remove every single Hamas member from Gaza you’ll be back to the same situation in no time.

              There needs to be an international peace force in the area and both sides need to revisit if this stupid war is worth fighting.

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                People that lose everything get radicalized

                If you think that’s a good excuse for violence, why doesn’t the same excuse apply for Israel and why it exists?

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                I agree. There needs to be an international peace force to dismantle Hamas and enable a peaceful coexistence between Israel and Gaza.

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          Yes yes. Let’s have israel liberate them /s

          When they cut of water, power and supplies it’s business even though the result is people dying and in effect genocide. When Hamas attacjs them it’s terrorism. Killing innocent civilians ON ANY SIDE is terrorism.

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            Turns out living with terrorists that keep provoking attacks on you is a shit situation that you should escape from or call for international help to remove them. It is sad that innocent people of Gaza suffer and die and I wish that tragedy would not happen but that blood is solely on Hamas’ hands - they fully knew what the reaction would be.

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              If you think living with terrorists is bad you should think about a fucking county that has power hungry terrorist leadership. You Israel is a terrorist state and them killing civilians in Gaza is no different than what Hamas is doing. You can pretend it’s something else but this is genocide.

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                  Explain it to me you brainiac. Let’s see if you can do mental gymnastics to justify what is happening.

                  Is wikipedia good enough for your Highness?

                  Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people[a] in whole or in part. In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.[1][2]

                  Killing members of a group? Check. Serious bodily or mental harm? Check. Living conditions intended to destroy the group? Fucking check.

                  ANY of these == genocide. ANY

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                    “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”.

                    The intent “to destroy whole or in part” is not there. If Israel had the intent to eradicade the people of Gaza it could have easily done so for a long time. That is not “mental gymnastics” but a matter of intent, as stated in your definition. They take into account that many, many innocent people in Gaza are killed as collaterals in their fight to destroy Hamas, but Israel actually wanting to eradicate the populace would look very different. I’m open to change my view the coming weeks but I don’t see Israel eradicating them. I also accept that you vehemently disagree with me on this.

                    On the other hand Hamas has put the intent of the complete destruction of Israel in its founding charter - one can easily claim that every attack on Israel by Hamas is an act of genocide.

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          Shame about all the children who actually live there. Are those children not allowed to visit their relatives either?

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            Where did I mention people who live there? Gaza is in a terrible situation and people should leave until Hamas is removed. Visiting that powder keg is utterly irresponsible.