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  • @S_204@lemmy.world
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    148 months ago

    Yet we’re not seeing calls for Hamas to step down and let innocent Palestinians live in some version of peace that can never be known under Islamic jihad…

    Which I find very weird. The lack of conversation surrounding the admitted goals of the leaders of the Palestinian people is something that needs to be part of any conversation.

    • @TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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      218 months ago

      It’s a false dichotomy to condition ceasing the extermination of a whole innocent population to protests towards a terrorist organization. Israel does not need to bomb several hospitals to stop Hamas. There are other ways to go about stopping terrorists.

      Maybe you don’t see many calls at Hamas because people are catching up with how wholesale persecution and extermination of people is often justified by pointing to a few malicious individuals that are part of that population.

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          8 months ago

          I am not stupid and I’m capable of empathy. Really, do you need a reason to understand that bombing hospitals full of innocent civilians is a horrible thing?

          I also know enough recent history to have some inkling that widespread bombing might not be that effective at stopping a terrorist movement. Say, like US wars against Afghanistan and Iraq.

            • @TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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              58 months ago

              Consistently groups that do horrible, entirely excessive atrocities insist that they are necessary and vital. It does not mean that they are, and it’s definitely something you should not assume blindly, or at all.

              There needs a lot more than “might” to even begin to justify it. Then again, might alone is often used to get away with it.

      • @odt@lemm.ee
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        28 months ago

        They can fuck off to any other 20 Arab/Muslim countries. How many other Jewish countries are there?

        • @TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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          58 months ago

          Oh yeah, somebody goes to you and tells you to move to diffent country or they’ll drop a bomb on you and your family, I’m sure you’ll happy to comply. Whatever religion and ethnicity you are, I’m sure you can just go anywhere vaguely similar and know everyone on a first-name basis.

          This is neither a matter of handing the whole region exclusively to palestinians or to israelis. Justifying it because “there are other arab/muslim countries” is such a frankly childish way to justify a conflict as serious as this. Needing to say this is almost ridiculous, but a region doesn’t need to be populated by only a single kind of people.

    • @Madison420@lemmy.world
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      148 months ago

      Because they’re not going to do that. You can’t call them terrorists and expect logical reasonable action or reaction.

      The Palestinian people by in large did not vote Hamas in, over 50% of the people in Gaza were not alive during the last election.