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We might know more of the truth if Israel didn't systematically target journalists.
This isn’t the gotcha you think it is
Israel is supposedly a democratic state. If your only argument is that literally a terrorist organization is just as bad then what does that say about Israel?
Also, why are we forking billions of dollars annually to a terrorist state.
I could continue arguing why you are wrong but it’s very obviously not worth it
From the up and downvotes most people agree with me and with the truth
The people with the tanks in this situation is Israel.
Wow, now we're Russian tankies if we believe that Israel targeted and killed children in a school? Nice one buddy
"Don't like Israel killing children? Then you're a Putin-lover."
Holy fuck your rhetoric is getting just worse every day
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/more-than-100-palestinians-killed-israeli-strike-targeted-school-gaza-2024-08-10/
This is the article in question, as you can see from the url structure it has the original headline. The article has been continually updated since press yesterday (including three hours ago) and appears to have changed a few times according to others / records at archive.org.
The numbers supplied by Hamas have been pretty accurate in the past, according to multiple UN investigations. There's simply no reason for them to exaggerate the numbers, since they are already atrocious enough.
BTW: back in December, the IDF itself released reports saying that about two thirds of the dead are civilians/not Hamas.
You can spin it like you want, what Israel is doing over there is not okay. Simple as that.
You're moving goal posts.
Nope.
You first doubted Hamas, when I mentioned, that the UN agreed generally, you say, the UN is also not a good source, without any proof of that.
The fact about the IDF was completely dropped by you, because it doesn't fit your bill.
BTW: do you have any Israeli sources? If Israel would doubt Hamas' numbers, they might issue their own reports. But they don't. Well that's weird, isn't it? But the IDF probably is also just an anti Israel agent.
So, you think that the United Nations should not include two of the largest and most powerful nations in the world?
So Israel shouldn't be in the UN then?
What's funny is that i interpreted the changes shown in the meme as making it softer on Israel. First edit removes the reference to the school, second edit changes the number of people killed from a big number "over 100" to a fuzzy amount "scores" that is easier to underestimate.
It's since added that information back in, but in the meme it looks like it's trying to make Israel look as not-bad as possible.
Because we hate Israel? No. Because it's precisely the kind of thing Israel does all the time? Yeah, pretty much. If Hamas tells your fire is hot, are you not gonna believe them?
Would you don't be if I said I ate breakfast today? When people claim something happened that happens all the time, it's common to believe them, yes. That's common sense, not a fallacy.
Maybe if they would claim some things that don't sound exactly like the lies they always tell, and which are routinely proven false, I'd take them more seriously.
Maybe if they weren't making the kind of claims that usually turn out to be true, I'd treat them with more skepticism.
I can't fathom how this is difficult for you to understand. If Israel has less credibility than Hamas, they have only themselves to blame for being such bald-faced liars. Hamas is terrible but they haven't pissed away all the credibility they have left since Oct 7 the was Israel's government has.
You didn't have a point. Bye.
When you're bombing schools and hospitals all the time and hand-waving it away as "human shields", I get to call bullshit. You are shitting on my mouth and calling it a sundae.
Why did they destroy all of the water treatment facilities? Were those human shields, too?
Ah yes Reuters. Definitely a terrorist media outlet for sure.
All of the headlines shown come from the same site so that argument doesn't really hold water