• Kalkaline @leminal.space
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      11 months ago

      Do people think that there can’t be two bad guys in a story? This isn’t a good vs evil fight.

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        Do people think that there can’t be two bad guys in a story?

        You’re not going to like the answer…

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          Really disappoints me.

          In some ways, this might reflect the futility of multi party systems. At the end of the day, coalitions of multiple groups are still split into two camps of government and opposition. We have to stop seeing every conflict as us vs them.

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        11 months ago

        This is a war between two terrorist organizations, one of them is funded by the United States.

        We are funding terrorism. Your tax dollars are going to infant murder.

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          Tbf you’d have to invade the hospital to clear out the Hamas fighters using it as a base, especially if they were forcing it on the hospital staff

          That or lay siege to it but uh… that’d be about as effective as issuing another round of sanctions on Iran at this point.

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          To not kill babies and people in hospital care. Innocent life is never worth the victory, no matter what the propganda has told you.

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            When you have time to get off your unicorn and enter the mortal realm where the rest of us live, please present to us a plan to solve this conflict that results in 0 dead kids. We are waiting, as is your Nobel peace prize.

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              “We cannot guarantee children will not die so any suggestion we take actions to avoid it as much as possible are entirely unrealistic.”

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              So because I don’t have the solution to fix everything with a neat little bow on top kids should die? Nice

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        11 months ago

        That’s literally war. Become a general/propose a way to kill /apprehend people that look like civilians while hiding in civilian places

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      11 months ago

      I think Hamas is hiding inside your house. What, do people think Hamas wouldn’t hide inside your house?

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        They look just like the public and fighting from where the public lives. What is Israel to do? Just accept getting massacred.

        • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Does getting massacred justify massacring tenfold? I’m pretty sure the United States emmisaries had this very conversation with the state of Israel.

          The thing is, Hamas and Hesbollah see provoking Israel to disproportionate reprisal as a worthwhile gambit. They know Netanyahu is glad to enact genocide justified by retaliation to terror. But now the world will get to watch the horrors of war under Israeli jackboots. And it will be ugly, and the world may have opinions about the Israeli state doing ugly things. The general opinion from the international community is changing. Along with the US’ unconditional support of a regional bully.

          There are better ways. But Israeli state has rejected all alternatives, and is glad to throw stormtroopers into the mix.

          And yes, the people of Israel, by a significant majority don’t want an overkill response. They want a path towards peace. But the far right does like us vs. them dynamics to consolidate power. It’s the same playbook Trump uses.

          I’m not an expert. I don’t know how to fix this, but the experts were shown the door, so here we are. 👀

            • When Israel massacres civilians and massacres disproportionately, it then loses the peace. It also reveals its administration is too immature to deserve international support. The indiscriminate brutality of the IDF will reflect both on the the legitimacy of Israel and its allies, hence the conditions now added to US materiel support.

              I’m very glad you don’t have any responsibility in this or any state affair.