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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Before starting a war, ask yourself what victory would look like. It appears here that the goal is wiping Gaza entirely and anything short of that will be construed as a loss.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

That's the goal?

They are at 1.5% of the population of Gaza and daily death tolls have fallen month after month. If that's the goal shouldn't the killing apparatus become more effective and not 20% less so each month?

Hmm, perhaps your reasoning is flawed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are at 1.5% of the population of Gaza and daily death tolls have fallen month after month. If that’s the goal shouldn’t the killing apparatus become more effective and not 20% less so each month?

I'm sorry not enough people are getting killed efficiently enough for you. What do you think 'Total Victory' means for Israel here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What the fuck? Where you get that idea from? I point out an obvious flaw in your reasoning and somehow that means I want more people to die? What's wrong with you?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've forced most of the population to Rafah on the southern border and are preparing an assault on the city while Egypt is preparing a walled camp just across the border to contain refugees. Sounds like they're well on track.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah and Hamas leadership continues to use most of Gaza as a human shield. Hamas should have stayed in the north and met their fate, they're cowards, hiring behind women and kids, but they traveled with the refugees.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Monthly death tolls are rising, what are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re the one claiming they’re falling, the burden of proof is on you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't care if you believe me or not, I'm unburdened. The daily death tally is and has been trending downward since this second or third week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

With only 12 out of the 35 hospitals partially functioning, since the rest have been bombed relentlessly and are no longer operational, the death numbers are certainly a conservative estimate And most likely higher. Weird thing to say when millions are on the brink of starvation and dozens have already died of starvation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So fucking what? 20 less people die each day and that makes it okay for you? Starvation snd disease orchestrated by Israel will kill many more soon but I'm sure you'll find an excuse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah remember how when Hitler first shoved all the jews into concentration camps

Then he let them suffer and die in those camps for a while

Then he made dedicated death camps to kill them all

So I guess we should wait until the death toll reaches at least 25% before we start to do anything just like how the allies definitely waited for Hitler to make death camps before fighting with his army.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then explain why excessive civilian casualties are acceptable lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because that's Hamas's strategy, to put people in harms way and then prey on your sympathy. It's called lawfare.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's called Israeli propaganda that has no independent verification and is used by Israel to justify intentionally targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can see it and verify it for yourself if you're not blinded by your wildly out of control emotional reactions to everything you see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You got me, empathy makes me anti-Genocide. Funny that you don't see human rights organizations and independent news outlets as credible despite their reports being verifiable. Meanwhile, you promote IDF rhetoric used to justify ethnic cleansing, despite their verifiable track record of falsified information. You've made Islamophobic comments, which come from fear and hate; emotions IDF propaganda exploits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lawfare is a word Israel likes to use when Palestinians appeal to international law.

When we do it, it's lawfare. When Israel genocides Gaza, it's just defending itself. And hell has frozen over btw

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They are at 1.5% of the population of Gaza and daily death tolls have fallen month after month. If that's the goal shouldn't the killing apparatus become more effective and not 20% less so each month?

If Israel was stupid then yeah they'd ramp up the killing after the ICJ ruled that it was a plausible case of genocide. If they were not stupid maybe they would slow down.

So the question is: do you think Israel is stupid?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your argument is that there are so many dead that the IDF is killing people more slowly...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nope you've misread.