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  • DarkGamer@kbin.social
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    Are you suggesting that Israel should be bound by international law to not impose collective punishment, while the state of Palestine is killing and kidnapping civilians and clearly not hindered by it? Palestine is a hostile nation that just launched a bloody attack on civilians. Aren’t the effects of a war typically felt by all members of a state participating in it?

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        Seriously, partisan operations tend to be war crimes. That doesn’t mean that shooting the entire village is now acceptable. You get hanged for that.

        • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.deOP
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          The Hamas is called a terrorist organization by Israel, most NATO countries and many others. It is the official language of the Western nations and neither Gaza nor Palestine ist recognized as a “state” by Israel or again most of NATO.

          Adding more hypocricsy to the hypocricsy doesn’t make it better as a justification.

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            Although that is true, the state of Palestine has significant international recognition.

            Terrorism is most obviously defined by attacks on civilians for political ends. Hamas, who is in charge of Gaza, just orchestrated the murder of 1000+ civilians. I’m at a loss as to how one can try to portray this as not a terrorist state. An EDM concert full of civilian youths is not a valid military target, this wasn’t collateral damage, it was an intentional attack on civilians.

            Is it any wonder NATO and Israel doesn’t want to normalize relations with them?

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      No.I do believe Israel should respect international law. This doesn’t mean I approve of what Hamas did.

      • DarkGamer@kbin.social
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        Gaza is still accessible via Egypt, supply lines can still remain open. It seems absurd to suggest Israel should be forced to aid and supply a hostile state that is currently killing their civilians. A blockade seems appropriate to me given the circumstances.

        Theoretically if Mexico invaded the US we should still keep supplying them with energy, food and water while they attack us because otherwise it’s collective punishment?

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          But the US doesn’t require Mexico to get running water and electricity from the US and refuse to let them build their own infrastructure or get it from anywhere else…

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            • Food and water can still get in via the Egyptian border, supply lines are still open. This isn’t a mediaeval siege, if starvation were the goal no border crossings would be allowed.
            • Funny how in this conflict one side is expected to adhere to international law while the other side totally ignores it, intentionally attacks civilians, takes hostages, launches missiles indiscriminately at civilian centers, etc., If Israel adopted the tactics Palestine is willing to employ there would be no Palestine.
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              If you were to take a guess at the ratio of Palestine civilians to Israeli civilians that have been killed in the last 50 years. What would it be?

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                I would guess that Palestinian civilian death counts are significantly higher, as most of the fighting has been done within occupied Palestinian territories, civilian uprisings happen against the IDF often there, Israel can bomb targets in Palestine freely causing collateral damage while they are protected by the Iron Dome, Hamas and other such groups are fighting a guerilla war by hiding among civilians, and you wouldn’t have brought it up were it not a huge ratio. 9:1?

                With all the civilians they intentionally murdered the ratio is certainly moving in their favor now.

                An eye for an eye, leaving the world blind.

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                  The only reason why I mentioned is of what seemed to be a disconnect from reality. Either that, or I just misunderstood.

                  Funny how in this conflict one side is expected to adhere to international law while the other side totally ignores it, intentionally attacks civilians, takes hostages, launches missiles indiscriminately at civilian centers, etc., If Israel adopted the tactics Palestine is willing to employ there would be no Palestine.

                  “if Israel adopted the tactics Palestine is willing to employ, there would be no Palestine”. How to you reconcile that kind of statement, when the ratio of dead children is 20:1?

                  “the other side totally ignores it, intentionally attacks civilians, takes hostages, launches missiles indiscriminately at civilian centers”

                  This here perfectly describes what Israel has been doing for 50 years, at a 20:1 ratio. So… if you were suggesting that this was what Palestine [sic] is to blame for… Is it?

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              Yeah Israel is expected to obey international law because it gets $3.8 billion a year in funding from the US to support their military. If Israel refuses to follow international law then the US is effectively giving that money to terrorists.

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          Egypt is as hostile to Gaza or worse, but they get a free pass not being Jewish.

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          The Rafah border crossing is currently closed due to an Israeli air strike. Might reopen tomorrow. Might be bombed again.

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          they Israel should divest from the region and let them sort their own stuff out. instead they meddle and remain in control.

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            They should stop occupying the foreign hostile power that is presently attacking, killing, and kidnapping their civilians with guerilla attacks? Given that Hamas refuses to negotiate or make concessions in return, that sounds like bad game theory.

            [Hamas’s charter,] article 13, “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”

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                I don’t like the fundies who are doing it or the way they treat the locals. They are clearly an encroachment on Palestinian territory, and I can understand why they represent an existential threat to Palestine and are such a point of contention.

                I understand why Palestine loathes them, and why Israel ignores them. From the Israeli perspective ignoring them is good game theory. This is a reasonable, (but perhaps not ethical,) response to an enemy who refuses to negotiate a viable solution despite the realities of the situation. Unless Palestine comes to the bargaining table in good faith, willing to make some concessions, they will eventually lose everything. This puts continual pressure on them to do so, if they do not they will continue to lose territory. They have been overwhelmingly defeated time and time again but refuse to acknowledge this, leaving Israel with few viable options to deal with the threat that a hostile and belligerent Palestine represents. There’s little else they can take from them but the land, and they still seem unwilling to compromise. This will either bring them to the table or leave them without a home, either way resolving the threat in their favor.

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                    You don’t think they don’t care about losing land they will never get back? If this didn’t matter to Palestine they wouldn’t have cited it as a motivation for this attack.

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      Israel as the occupying power had already been breaking international law so a bit more won’t make much difference.