Sentient LoomThe correct civilians to slaughter
Hot SaucermanHamas: Bad guys
Israeli government: Bad guys
Innocents on both sides are just caught in the middle of both Hamas and Israel committing to collective punishment which is a war crime.
DeceptichumThe thing is you also have to admit the power imbalance at play here.
Both sides suck, but one side has the power to stop making the situation worse and stop abusing millions as they colonise their land.
This can never end or start to heal until the fucked up treatment of Palestinians stops. All they are doing is breeding tomorrow’s fighters.
Oh, I don’t disagree, but Hamas committing similar atrocities isn’t helping. A war crime is a war crime is a war crime. Targeting innocent civilians is never justified, and that is something both sides continue to do: target innocent civilians.
Both sides are guilty as hell of some really fucked up shit. Yes, Israel is the occupier, but it doesn’t justify killing innocents. Period.
atomkarincahow are they similar atrocities?
did hamas lock 2.5 million people in the worlds most dense open air prison?
did hamas systematically crushed their buildings and not let concrete inside?
did hamas shoot little kids just for throwing rocks?
did hamas systematically murdered press, medics on the field?
did hamas control israelis food intake?
did hamas very deliberately snipe the knees of people peacefully protesting?
did hamas cut electricity, water, food?
did hamas bombed places that palestinian prisoners stayed?
did hamas tell people to leave the city and bomb the only way out?
what did hamas do? the only thing left to do when you do all of those things to a people.
It’s called collective punishment and there’s a reason it’s a warcrime. Being willing to punish any and every Israeli citizen for the crimes of some is just as bad and the exact same thing as what Israel is doing by cutting off power to everyone in Gaza.
Both sides are willing to punish everyone who they consider different than them. Both Hamas and the Israeli government operate on the idea that everyone needs to be punished for the crimes of the other side.
I don’t know what’s so hard to understand about both doing it. Israel has more power, money, and resources, absolutely. They’ve been horrendous to the people of Palestine, for over fifty years now.
That will never justify killing innocents, my dude.
so tell me then, how would you behave if you were a palestinian? just accept death?
asymmetric warfare. i would figure it out. sorry about your palestinians but im different. /s
I would hope, if I was going to attack them, I would have the ability and willingness to attack military or political targets: in other words, the people who are actually most responsible for the current state of Israel and its willingness to continue occupying Palestine. Like the US, Israeli “democracy” isn’t necessarily super representative of what the beliefs of a lot of the citizens of the country are. It goes without saying that they have a right to self-direction and the international community should be recognizing them as a nation, and they deserve all that without constant encroachments and stealing land and being kept in a ghetto.
However, choosing to attack civilians who may have actually been sympathetic to you is a path that actually undermines your ability to get more sympathizers. Just like Israeli killing civilians in Palestine just makes more people support Hamas. It’s a stupid, vicious cycle where attacking civilians on both sides just keeps getting both sides more entrenched in belief they’re correct, because the other side attacks innocents. Conveniently ignoring all the innocents they’ve slaughtered.
Further, these are both driven by terrible ass Abrahamic religions that are both warring over the same Holy City. Like in the US, it’s religion holding us back and making people wildly violent. Just look at the MAGAs, they’re frothing at the mouth at wanting to kill people who don’t believe like they do, even though they hardly even ascribe to any of the values of their own ostensible religion. They’re both religions with a terrible fundamentalist streak, and it is part of why both sides are so willing to commit atrocities: because they believe their God is behind them, and thus they have faith they are in the right.
Seriously, if they want me to take them seriously, they could pop Netanyahu and his fucking cronies, who have shown the Israeli government to be a corrupt sham much in the way Reagan, Bushes and Trump did for the US. Nah, they’re too eager to go after innocents. Both sides are too eager to do that, and I’m not getting behind either ancient ass bullshit ass bigoted fucking religions.
you would have the ability? how?
Look man, if your options are literally only “do nothing and accept your fate” or “kill a bunch of innocent people who never did anything to you and actually may have supported you” then maybe you should just give up and accept your fate, because we’re literally seeing how many more innocents are dying because of this. They didn’t put a dent in Israel’s defenses. They gave Israel more excuses to the international community to murder even more innocents. Great plan, Hamas. I’m glad it worked out so swimmingly and actually changed things instead of just continuing the same bullshit cycle. /s
If you can point to me out how this is going to result in anything other than more death and destruction, feel free to clue me in. Because fuck nothing has changed. They didn’t take out the people responsible. They didn’t change the power balance, and now even more Palestinians are paying the price because Israel is a fucked up aggressor.
Acting like a bad plan that resulted in more innocents deaths is some great blow against the establishment is dumb as fuck.
Fried_out_KombiExactly. It’s not a choice between “murder innocent civilians” and “do nothing”; it’s a choice between “murder innocent civilians” and “target legitimate targets such as the military apparatus that actually murders Palestinians regularly or the right-wing political apparatus that pursues a policy of military hyper-aggressiom, apartheid, and settler colonialism”.
If they chose to do the latter, I doubt nearly as many people would take issue with them, they’d receive vastly more sympathy, and they could finally end the systemic murder and oppression of Palestinians faster.
Are you saying the only options are collective punishment or accepting death?
no im not saying that, youre saying that. you are equating what israel has done for 75 years to mere reaction to that. you may not believe that hamas is not killing civilians on purpose and i cannot change that, but that does not change reality.
we have seen just war crimes over war crimes from israel just for the past few days. this is on top of decades of apartheid.
i could accept death for myself, too. but not for my daughter.
I was equating killing innocents with killing innocents, nothing else.
You are justifying mass punishment with …something about your daughter, and with that exposing exactly the attitude that keeps the region in a never ending cycle of death.
“2. Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for their independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;” www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-184195/
war crimes:
- Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
- Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated;
- Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives;
- The transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory;
- Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives;
- Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions; www.un.org/en/…/war-crimes.shtml
these are the ones that were committed in just few days.
I understand. you list here injustice that when experienced are beyond words.
Now tell me: in what cases does is the punishment of innocents justified?
your assumption is wrong.
israel displaced millions of palestinians and replaced them with settlers. the blood is on israel government not hamas. they could easily not replace millions of people and we would not be here today.
Now you named one factor that explains this mess, and no objection here. But I’m still missing the answer how killing innocents can be justified.
It seems to me that you think that every person that lives in Israel is responsible for everything that the Israeli government did over the years.
How is that any different from the retaliation that this Israel government hands out over the massacres of citizens by hamas from last weekend?
i have been saying the same thing from the beginning, but i think your perspective of the situation is holding you back from understanding what im saying.
you can put innocent people anywhere in the world and they dont stop being innocent. but that does not change the fact that they are in someone elses home illegally.
if they did not want to be in someone elses home then it is the fault of the government, if they did want to be in someome elses home then it is their fault.
Again, what’s the justification for killing innocents? Because they walk on land that another claims theirs? That sort of thinking always and everywhere only lead to war and war crimes.
As for the Israelis, for those who live there, it’s their home, for many going back three generations. In many cases those ancestors took it it legally under ottoman law. I find that 24-undisputed-hour-rule questionable myself, but your story doesn’t hold up legally nor historical. Everyone’s has ancestors who lived someplace. That doesn’t automatically make that place theirs.
Pointing to an old map and claiming the territory that another currently occupies never leads to peace.
ok then look at the demographic between 1917~1948, you will see how the land was not bought but stolen, not from the ottomans but the british.
when you illegally occupy a land long enough, it does not make the occupation go away. its still an occupied territory.
Oh really? Then we’d have war everywhere. There is no place on earth that was not at some point taken by force by this or that group of people.
Ok, so before 1918, the Ottomans had that piece of land for about 400 years. I guess that makes a turkish claim is older, and therefore stronger.
Before that there was the Mamluks for 200 years, but that doesn’t seem an ethnicity that’s notable today, so let’s forget that.
Before that, the cruzaders had that land for 200 years, I suppose that means Europe also has an older claim.
Before that, Arabs for 400 years, so I see we’re back to their claim.
But hold on, before that, the Romans were their for a whopping 700 years. That’s notable. Italia has a really good claim, I’d say.
But even older there were the Jews, and even longer than the Romans. So, following your logic they are right to be there.
Before that there also lived people, of course, but it’s hard to pinpoint those to ethnicity. Egypt was there shortly. That’s an older claim even, but not very long.
Hmm. Are now all those people justified in killing innocents on some grounds that hasn’t been “theirs” for generations?
no, the ottomans were the occupiers, so thats just not my logic.
and the same goes for the rest.
this discussion turned into a loop, so i guess good day to you.
Ok, I guess then there is no logic to understand. I’ll stop trying. Have a good day.
On a side note, don’t forget the rampant antisemitism in the Muslim world. How can you negotiate with someone who only wants you see dead, because of your religion?