Comment by Natsu
2 years ago
If they're planning to just kill everyone, why haven't they just leveled the place? Militarily speaking, they can do that right now and have been able to do that for a long time. So if that's their true goal, then what stops them from giving the order right now?
Meanwhile, Palestine has shown no restraint at all in their 10/7 massacre and no Jews live in Palestine, whereas many Arabs live peacefully in Israel.
I already answered your question.
Your second point is wrong, by the way. There are hundreds of thousands of Jews living in settlements in the West Bank.
Only if you want to claim that words are more revealing of intentions than actions, which would discredit you.
The hospital they bombed had the parking lot damaged by a failed Hamas rocket. The "refugee camp" has been there for many years, not as huddled fleeing masses, but permanent structures from people who fled there long ago, the tunnel network is well known and there's video evidence, the aid was being supplied by Israel to begin with (including the water) and they were using the pipes to make weapons, etc.
So I'm not surprised to find that none of your other points make sense either.
Sure, let’s look at their actions:
- Killed almost 18,000 people
- Displaced 1.9 million people
- Cut off food, water, medicine, fuel, electricity and Internet access
- Limited press access except for footage reviewed by the IDF
- Dropped ~2x as much explosive as the US dropped in Hiroshima
- Damaged over 2/3 of buildings
- Bombed basically every hospital
- Bombed an ambulance
- Told people to move south and then bombed Rafah crossing, on the border with Egypt
- Kidnapped thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank
- Tortured Palestinian abductees
- Handed out weapons to West Bank settlers
- Stripped civilians and paraded them through the streets
This is all after October 7th — before that, Israeli settlers were responsible for pogroms and dozens of murders in the West Bank.
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> Meanwhile, Palestine has shown no restraint at all in their 10/7 massacre and no Jews live in Palestine, whereas many Arabs live peacefully in Israel.
Do you realize that isreal is the side who killed at least 10x the number that the other side kill. I can see that you describe hamas's action as horrible but there is no way of condition that justifies what isreal did and is still doing to Palestinian civilians (no matter how you think you can)
This is one relevant read:
https://time.com/3035937/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinian-casua...
Why are we playing this numbers game? If Hamas hypothetically had killed 30,000 Israels would you be saying that Israel still has 12,000 to go? Every person matters and in a war there are no targets for how many people are killed, in wars people get killed for achieving some other objectives. I would imagine that even if Hamas had only killed 150 people in Israel we'd be in exactly the same place and the ratio would be 100x because there's a point where Israel has to (well, at least they think) reoccupy Gaza at any cost. Israel was almost there in previous conflicts, but backed off.
There is no war in history, as far as I know, but willing to be corrected, where the measure or who is wrong and who is right, or when the war should end, was some threshold or ratio in the number of dead people. A war continues until both sides agree to stop it. Wars have a terrible human price. I think something like 400,000 people have died in the war in Yemen. I think there are hundreds of thousands of dead in the Russian-Ukraine war (mostly soldiers but they're people, and young people, too. Many civilians.). Sudan is pretty bad. 600,000 killed in the Syria civil war.
Because Israel cares about their civilians and defends them at huge costs (Iron Dome), while hamas is happier the more civilian death happens on their side, as it’s free propaganda/media outrage for them - see human shield, starting rockets from civilian buildings, etc.
It's not as if we are unclear about what Hamas is advocating for:
https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-leaders-our-goal-establi...
Israel could kill literally everyone though, and has been able since long before this. So the idea that they're not restrained in their response ignores that capability.
As to the latter part, you're pulling a trick to imply that the 10x are all civilian non-combatants, which is just as bad as the other people pretending that all the teen-aged Hamas soldiers who have been killing people are non-combatant children.