t3rmit3, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

You are either willfully ignorant about how wrong what you’re saying is, or you are truly a lost cause.

I don’t think you are aware of just how small this war is in terms of death toll compared to other wars that are currently going on.

And I don’t think you realize just how many insane ratios this war is producing. For being so small, it is resulting in more aid worker, doctor, and journalist deaths than other, much larger wars. It has resulted in level of destruction (e.g. 60% of homes damaged) that hasn’t existed since WW2. The sheer percentages of children being killed versus adults (nevermind combatants), is just staggering.

If your only defense is to say, “but who cares about ratios and percentages?”, then you’re just arguing that it’s okay to genocide small groups.

And you want to talk actual numbers? More children were killed by Israel in the first 3 weeks of their brutal assault than have died in all global conflicts combined annually, since 2019. That was when the child death toll was “only” 3,400. Now it’s thousands more.

But I’m suuuuuure you’re just weeping non-stop for them, right?

Neither is not supplying your enemy with resources

They are denying civilians water and food, and Israel is not the ones supplying those resources anyways, other countries are, and Israel is blocking them.

nor is bombing civilian infrastructure that is being used for military purposes

Which the water infra and power plants were not, but they were bombed anyways (and to be clear, Israel has never claimed that they were used to launch attacks, before you try to pull that out of your bum).

At no point did Israel make the unrealistic promise that they would be safe from bombs.

Ah yes, unrealistic to not bomb civilians. Of course. So smart. Why even have stipulations about war crimes, since apparently no one in a warzone can expect not to be killed indiscriminately anyways? Checkmate, human rights!

Given that Hamas operates from there

Hamas doesn’t “operate” from the 60% of residential buildings that have been damaged in Gaza, any more than the IDF could be said to “operate” from Israeli neighborhoods. Israel has shown no evidence (and in fact has been shown to have been dead wrong with their claims, such as at al-Shifa) that they are using the refugee camps and homes and businesses that Israel bombed to launch rockets (if they were all actually rocket launch sites, where were all the people actually living?). Simply having your soldiers live somewhere doesn’t make it a valid target, otherwise the rocket attacks into Israel are all justified too.

There’s a reason that Israel is rapidly losing support on the world stage, and why it’s going to find itself a pariah state before too long.

You would do the same if you were in their place.

When you wake up and find that most of the world is rejecting your country’s claims of conducting a war legitimately, perhaps you should question why, rather than rushing to spew out half-baked justifications and appeals to empathize with an abused group becoming the abusers.