Comment by pjc50
11 hours ago
> civilians aren't the target in Gaza
"We killed about 80,000 people by mistake" isn't the exculpation you think it is.
11 hours ago
> civilians aren't the target in Gaza
"We killed about 80,000 people by mistake" isn't the exculpation you think it is.
That has to be true first.
No one who is sane is saying that. IDF is saying – we killed 40.000 combatants who were hiding in ciivilan infrastructure, so unfortunately 1:1 civilian deaths happened, becaue of the terrorist urban warfare tactics hamas and palestinian islamic jihad are using.
Except of course, the IDF high command officially gave the order to "give up all restraint".
were you serving in the last two years and received this order? none of my friends or family have.
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> becaue of the terrorist urban warfare tactics hamas and palestinian islamic jihad are using
This is ridiculous.
I don't want to be a Hamas apologist; they're certainly brutally cynical enough to use civilians as shields, but in the case of Gaza, what else would you expect them to do?
Urban areas are strong defensive structures, and 75% of Gaza is urban. Where else would you expect them to fight? It would be unrealistic to expect Hamas to take on the IDF in open farmland so they could be annihilated by Israeli air power.
So they started a war they knew would cause mass death to their civilian population. How is that not the same thing?
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