• Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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    9 months ago

    I see ads in TV that are pro Isreal now with Santa crying because of Hamas kidnapped people. I know it’s what about ism but not really moral high ground here when IDF literally wipes whole familes.

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      9 months ago

      They literally knew this was coming and attacked Israel anyway. They knew because the response was harsh and disproportionate last time and ten times prior to that. Blood is on both sides’ hands. Hamas hiding behind civilians is not helping either.

      I also understand their desire to fight oppression, but it’s obvious they can’t and will never be able to win war of any kind. Their fight must be done through different means.

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        9 months ago

        I get what you’re saying. And might even agree with elements. But it is easy to say it’s futile to fight when you aren’t in a position to need to. Doing nothing in this case means resigning not just yourself to being under their oppression, and not even just your friends and family. It is resigning your entire culture to a slow painful death by attrition. They are losing more and more land, rights, and any hope of progress. Like… if someone is strangling you, do you fight back, or just resign yourself to it? And that’s before we even get into the fact that those complying and not fighting are still being killed. Those not fighting and wanting to leave were lured to slaughter. Not fighting is an illusory choice.

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        9 months ago

        it is sad. and a who city should not be levelled in response. that’s just common sense.

        which is obviously why there is a concerted and expensive campaign of you tube adverts to create a counter narrative to around 10,000 kids being bombed and killed.

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            9 months ago

            Do you really not see any other alternatives to what is happening?

            sounds like a lack of empathy and imagination. both make talking to you redundant.

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              9 months ago

              Fighting unlawful combatants is one of the hardest thing in war and has arguably never been solved completely.

              So, yeah, there’s not really lots of clear cut alternatives.

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              9 months ago

              Fighting unlawful combatants is one of the hardest thing in war and has arguably never been solved completely.

              So, yeah, there’s not really lots of clear cut alternatives.

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        9 months ago

        Somehow, I get the impression that you aren’t about to argue that what has happened to the Palestinians is sad and that they should be fighting against the people who did it to them.