• Flying Squid
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    79 months ago

    Are you actually claiming Israel has no culpability when it comes to the suffering of the people of Gaza?

    • @[email protected]
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      -19 months ago

      No, not no culpability, but understandable reasons for what they’ve had to do for their own safety over the years.

      • Flying Squid
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        29 months ago

        One would think not escalating situations might be better for their own safety…

        • @[email protected]
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          19 months ago

          Seems to be the escalation was Hamas invasion of their country on Saturday from where I’m sitting.

          • Flying Squid
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            59 months ago

            Gaza is not Hamas and Hamas is not Gaza. Those children are innocent and they’re nearly half the population, as the post says. When you put a huge number of innocent people under siege, and kill more of them than were killed on your side, you’re escalating.

            • @[email protected]
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              19 months ago

              Like it or not, Hamas are the defacto leader of Gaza, voted for in 2006. You can make all sorts of arguments about what’s happened after that, but if the people of Gaza have made no attempt to remove them from leadership since then this is the outcome.

              • Flying Squid
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                49 months ago

                How many of those children voted for Hamas in 2006? Exactly how many?

                • @[email protected]
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                  19 months ago

                  How many children voted for various governments that lead their countries to war throughout history?

                  • Flying Squid
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                    39 months ago

                    I’m not sure how that justifies what is going on in Gaza. The claim was that Hamas and Gaza were interchangeable (thus justifying Israeli atrocities) because Gazans voted for Hamas in 2006. When almost half the population were, at best, toddlers in 2006.

              • المنطقة عكف عفريتOP
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                29 months ago

                Hamas are the defacto leader of Gaza, voted for in 2006. You can make all sorts of arguments about what’s happened after that, but if the people of Gaza have made no attempt to remove them from leadership since then this is the outcome.

                Sure, let’s blame the civilian Palestinian deaths on the Israelis that voted this current gov’t into power…

                Oh wait, this isn’t how it works