• catonkatonk [none/use name]
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    631 month ago

    Is it true that if someone takes a kid hostage, you’re justified in killing the kid? Sounds fucked up, the idea that killing someone who is doing Bad Things is more important than protecting the life of an innocent child. Hmm. Not sure about this “international rules based” order the crackers keep talking about.

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      291 month ago

      i don’t think it is written in the statutes that you can. Israeli lawyers argue for their right to & to designate human shields as ‘consensual’ desolate Israel isn’t party to Hostages Convention either

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      161 month ago

      One of the really fascinating things about October 7th was that Israel’s top priority was openly “preventing Hamas from getting in”, with all other considerations, like the preservation of Israeli life, coming second. Then you read stories about helicopters firing missiles without targeting carefully or those girls in tanks firing on kibbutz homes without a clear idea of who is inside, and it becomes an inevitable conclusion that the civilian death toll (such as it even existed, since there was a heavy military presence there) was almost entirely Israel’s fault on an immediate level, even before getting into “Their policies made the attack inevitable” and such

  • Dagadashko [none/use name]
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    611 month ago

    This is so psychopathic. Why would anyone care about a system of laws which permits killing a child? Who in the world cares about the distinction between “legally killed child” and “murdered child”? Who could read that sentence and think anything other than “whatever laws they are referring to are utterly worthless”?

  • queermunist she/her
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    571 month ago

    Next time a shooter attacks a school in Uvalde they should just send a drone strike, it’s legally justified after all.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    531 month ago

    An infanticide that no one can see is also going to attract suspicion.

    Then what the fuck has been happening? 15,000 dead kids isn’t infanticide? Its been clear as fucking day to see from the start and throughout the history of Israel’s occupation of Palestine. We’re way beyond the point of growing suspicious. Fuck these people…illegal-to-say

  • Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt [he/him, they/them]
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    The whole human shields thing is pure projection. We’ve seen plenty of examples of isntreal doing it but none of Palestinians doing it. They’ll bomb a fucking hospital and claim that hamas was storing weapons there and therefore hamas was using the people as human shields…but then they can’t produce any convincing evidence that there were weapons there in the first place.

    Always projection. The west kills kids and don’t want to feel bad about it so blame the fucking people getting killed. Classic.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      171 month ago

      We’ve seen plenty of examples of isntreal doing it

      That’s the other thing; the fact that isntraelis do it means that Hamas would go out of their way to avoid civilian casualties, so why would Hamas intentionally use human shields? The fact that the IOF believe that they can make effective use of human shields means that they know it would stop Hamas firing on them because Hamas would try and minimize civilian casualties.

  • sir_this_is_a_wendys [he/him]
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    461 month ago

    Maybe I’m wrong but I feel like more and more people are finally realizing that our entire system is dog shit from top to bottom.

  • @electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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    381 month ago

    If you can’t fight your enemy without killing children (and this is legal), then why are we so judgy about “terrorists”?

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    371 month ago

    I know that 15.000 dead children is bad optics but what if each of these kids were human shields, jumping to take a bullet for Mr. Hamas? That would also explain why the IOF hasn’t been able to get Hamas yet, as they need to mow down these legions of kids first just to get a clear shot.

  • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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    361 month ago

    I was listening to NPR the other night, and a guest explained that the reason that 2/3 of people killed in Gaza are women and children is that Hamas used them all as human shields