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Comment by ajsnigrutin

11 hours ago

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Why this, of all things? It's horrible, but look at where the school was, why did they put a school there? Who puts a school next to a military base? There's way darker stuff than people missing a military base and hitting an adjacent school by accident.

  • Most of the really important military targets in Israel, such as the Mossad headquarters, are in the middle of residential areas.

    • Yeah I was surprised to see that last year when they were targeted (and almost hit? or hit?) by Iran. Yikes.

  • The extent to which some people will twist to justify that which can not be justified is mind boggling.

    • What's the twist? I'm curious why this event was chosen, if for any reason. Personally I am frustrated by people building a school next to a military installation. It feels extremely negligent. I find that to be pretty unsettling and wish people wouldn't do that, because military installations are legitimate and predictable military tagets.

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    • I think nobody was justifying what happened, just pointing out more than one party did unjustifiable things.

    • I mean...sure...but if you are going to be consistent you are going to have to criticize the Allied victory in WWII. There were literally piles of dead children in cities all over fascist Europe. We do not even have exact numbers because in some cases the death toll had to be estimated by weighing the ashes found in bomb shelters.

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  • > Who puts a school next to a military base?

    These days they’re calling themselves the “Department of War”