• @Altofaltception@lemmy.world
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    891 month ago

    We keep being reminded that Israel has a right to defend itself, but nobody has ever explained how killing 30,000 civilians, mostly children, helps Israel defend itself.

    • Jake Farm
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      171 month ago

      Was the vietnam war a genocide? The US killed ~600,000 civilians during the Vietnam war.

      • @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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        461 month ago

        Yes, it pretty clearly was, the fact that they restricted operations to the south out of worry of a Chinese invasion meant that commanders on the ground literally began measuring mission progress entirely by how many Vietnamese people they’d killed in a given period.

      • @Epicmulch@lemm.ee
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        31 month ago

        High civilian casualties means genocide. Duh. Hamas wants high civilian casualties. So that way they can make people call this a genocide. That gets people on their side. Hamas literally committed genocidal acts but the number of deaths was much less so people don’t care as much. Hamas was literally targeting Jewish people in general. Israel is targeting Hamas members not Palestinians. Unfortunately Hamas took the last 17 years building tunnels underneath civilians. So there are a lot of unfortunate civilian casualties trying to get to Hamas and its leaders. Israel should do better but I’m afraid it’s very difficult with the logistics of this fight. It’s a terrible situation all the way around.

          • @Count042@lemmy.ml
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            11 month ago

            Any nation that intentionally blockades food, medicine, and potable water to a population it considers inconvenient is a government internally committing genocide.

    • Someone on reddit said that hamas used young children to attack israel on october 7th and therefore children are not innocent. I shit you not…