• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Hamas killed 1400 civilians.

    The IDF has killed about 9500 civilians so far.

    I dunno, I think that Hamas may not be the good guys, but they’re definitely the less bad guys.

    • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Give hamas same weaponry and intel as profoundly shit as IDF and israel might as well be one big crater

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        1 year ago

        Okay, but they don’t. And they likely never will.

        Right now it’s like a 6yo child that punches you as hard as they can in the balls, and you respond by beating the fuck out of them with a tire iron. The fact that you could straight-up murder the child by shooting them in the fucking face doesn’t mean that breaking every bone in their hands along with both legs to “teach them a lesson” would be appropriate or proportionate.

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          1 year ago

          For sure, but that wasn’t really my point, which was intentions and goals. Hamas is not a “good guy” since they will take every chance of murdering and kidnapping israeli citizens if it’s by high-precision missiles or fucking gliders straight out of a comic book, and israelis aren’t the “good guys” for barraging palestinian civvies while taking tiktoks.

          I feel vile for all this good guys bad guys rhetoric ffs gotta take a showa

          • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            1 year ago

            Israel did knowingly bomb a refugee camp. Twice. Kind of hard to defend that behavior as “self defense”.

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            1 year ago

            Oh, I’m not saying that Hamas is good guys. They’re not. They’re terrorists.

            But by the scope and scale, by the amount of force that they’re able to bring to bear, and by the sheer number of non-combatants being killed, the IDF is far, far worse. Hamas targeted civilians on purpose, the IDF is simply indiscriminate.

            The Allied forces utilized the tactics of total-war during WWII, with things like the firebombing of Dresden, or Tokyo. The idea was to break the will of the people to fight. Well, spoiler: it doesn’t work. When you kill someone’s whole family, their friends, blow up their house and community, they end up having an even stronger desire to fight back. Just like the bombings of London by Germany increased the resolve of Britons, so did the indiscriminate massacre of civilians by the Allies increase the resolve of the Germans.

            The actions of the IDF are going to give Hamas it’s next generation of fighters, people willing to die to kill Israel.

            • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              Hamas targeted civilians on purpose, the IDF is simply indiscriminate.

              I think the former is way worse. Besides, there’s no point in debating this. They’re both horrible. Agreed? Then let’s move on.