• crashfrog@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    The only good guys around are the medics & doctors trying to keep people from dying

    Naw, these people are bad too, it turns out. These people are willing to lie to everyone to preserve their access to Gaza and the flow of UN aid.

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      11 months ago

      And that’s bad because? Even assuming that’s true, the fact that they need to lie to get aid into Gaza is the problem.

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        11 months ago

        I think it’s bad when people who claim neutrality in a conflict are actually aiding one side of the conflict, and lying about it. Israel would be justified, in this situation, in treating them as spies.

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            11 months ago

            Spies on the side of the guys who rape 13-year-old girls with knives aren’t the “good guys” in any fucking universe.

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              11 months ago

              Setting aside the veracity of that accusation, medical personnel can only be interpreted as on the side of civilians. It just happens that the interests of civilians (not dying) happen to go against the interests of Israel (killing civilians and taking their lands).

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                11 months ago

                Well, no; if medical personnel are taking affirmative, supportive actions for one of the combatants - as its been proved many medical staff are doing on behalf of Hamas - but are doing so under the false guise of neutrality, then they’re spies under the Geneva Conventions and can be shot when captured.

                “We had to work with Hamas in order to have access to their civilians” isn’t a sufficient defense to that. There are already rules about access to civilians that Hamas can be demanded to follow; you don’t actually have to join Hamas in order to access Gazan civilians.