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Removed Comment You are using terms you don't understand. These are passive devices. They don't provide any signals intelligence, which is why Hezbollah chose them in the first place.
> Using SigInt to target is, by definition, going to lead to war crimes.
You are still making up definitions. It's getting tiring. by @DdCno1@beehaw.org reason: not productive
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Removed Comment Overwhelmingly, it was military-aged men based on reports, photos and videos. This was a targeted attack on terrorists. Murder requires intent. Do you really think the intent was to murder kids by blowing up pagers purchased by and for internal Hezbollah use? You cannot seriously believe that. If kids died due to this it was 1) wholly unintentional and 2) while tragic, still a byproduct of legal warfare, not terrorism.
Words have clearly defined meanings. You can't just make up your own to suit your agenda. by @DdCno1@beehaw.org reason: not productive
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Removed Comment I don't recall the Nazis ever warning civilians before dropping bombs so that they could get to safety. That's the opposite of murder, since murder requires intent. by @DdCno1@beehaw.org reason: not productive
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Removed Comment > There’s no world where
Why are you trusting numbers supplied by Hamas?
> It’s Us or Them
Netanyahu is a bastard, but how's that untrue?
> law4palestine.org
Seriously?
> Francesca Albanese
She's not an expert, she's under investigation for corruption by the very terrorist groups she is supporting.
> while the UN won’t officially label it as such, they have officially told Israel that they are required to 1) “prevent a genocide”, and 2) get out of Gaza immediately
Based on what exactly? If this whole genocide claim was as waterproof as frequently claimed, then why has South Africa failed to provide the necessary evidence and why has the court rejected an extension to the recently expired deadline to submit said evidence?
> Meanwhile, the right wing media
Well done carefully picking the Fox News article on this, even though there are other articles on this as well: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251265727/un-gaza-death-toll-women-children
> they are in the process of eradicating a rival religion from the face of the earth
At most, going by Hamas numbers, 1% of the population of Gaza has been killed. At this rate, it'll take them over 80 years (assuming no new births, which is of course not realistic - Palestinians still have higher birth rates than Israelis, always had) to kill just the people in Gaza. Even the claim that they are trying to kill all Gazans is preposterous, but claiming that they want to eradicate a religion of 1 billion people can only be described as the most vile, the most unhinged antisemitic hate speech. It's also nothing but gaslighting, given that both Hamas and Hezbollah's open goal is to not just kill all Israelis, but every Jew and other "unbeliever" on Earth. by @DdCno1@beehaw.org reason: not productive
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Removed Comment If that's your conclusion from what I wrote, then I pity the long list of teachers who tried to teach reading comprehension to you. by @DdCno1@beehaw.org reason: not productive
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Removed Comment Bummer. So for how long has America been supplying Israel with weapons to continue its genocide?
A couple months?
Maybe a year?
Oh, 5 years?
Wait, 5 DECADES?!
Another question: Is slavery illegal in the United States? Nope. Who can be slaves? Prisoners. What do we have the most of, per capita? Shootings. But also prisoners.
🤓 China bad 🇺🇸🫡🦅💣 by @Crikeste@lemm.ee reason: weird whataboutism
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Removed Comment America did not supply any weapon to Israel. In any case, that was an act solely made by United States. by Ignacio [he/him] reason: incorrect, also what
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Removed Comment More GOOD fucking news, and the hits just keep on coming. As promised, there's no where safe for these terrorist animals. No where. by downpunxx reason: don't dehumanizepeople like this
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Removed Comment You can not be serious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_during_the_Hajj by @DdCno1@beehaw.org reason: don't do this
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Removed Comment Cover for their war crimes like a good dog. by @Crikeste@lemm.ee reason: Not nice
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Removed Comment funny, i was about to say the same thing to you. by pbjamm reason: thread cleanup, nothing wrong with this comment
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Removed Comment > excessive emphasis on “traditional values” in their campaigns
It was also "if not us then Communists", "if not us then Nazis", "anti-fascism in the world" and "counter-terrorism" in the past.
> In my country, the AUR party makes heavy use of medieval rulers like Vlad the Impaler (yes, that one that is known in the Western pop culture as count Dracula) to stirr nostalgia for a past most people don’t know.
We-ell, there's a certain appeal in impaling Turks for me, it makes the remaining ones friendlier.
> They are basically romanticising the past in order to get to power, and maybe blur the line between the democratic institutions afterward - just like in Russia, but also in Hungary or even Poland.
As if they weren't in France or in UK or in Italy.
My opinion is that we're fucked from all sides, there's no need to pretend it's only a handful of countries. by @rottingleaf@lemmy.zip reason: maybe don't joke about impaling people
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Removed Comment > he asked for ..., as well as support for Ukraine’s civilians
The same civilians his illegitimate regime kidnaps from the streets and forcibly sends to the front lines to die? by @lltnskyc@monero.town reason: misinformation
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go die for being this dumb by @deft@lemmy.wtf reason: Not nice
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Removed Comment What? The ICJ doesn't even have the authority to issue warrants. What's the ICJ gonna do? The ICJ "ordered" Israel to halt military operation only if a certain number of parameters were met, which Israel is saying they haven't been, so are continuing the Rafah Op, lol. The ICJ is going to get someone like South Africa to go an complain to the United Nations, and any resolution will be vetoed by the United States. And Israel is goin to root out every Hamas terrorist hiding under Rafah so help them God. by downpunxx reason: cringe
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Removed Comment i mean there was nothing stopping them from ding so before. this is just adding a layer of government unnecessarily by CCL reason: ?
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Removed Comment Lol, reporting the comment, that's low, like a rat. by @TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl reason: stop
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Removed Comment Insults? You mean the truth?
Gets called out, doesn't like the answer. And then reports with their billions accounts.
So sure, keep being a piece of trash. by @TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl reason: stop
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Removed Comment Bro, I'm just seen bullshit from every thread and post. I'm not Chinese, I'm not even American, I'm a fucking third party watching how everyone commits war crimes, seeing propaganda everywhere and morons like you believing every crap of it. From space news to regular economy shit, and then the war everywhere. So you see, It’s getting tiring.
You're the only one defending bullshit, I'm just calling you* out.
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Removed Comment >Imagine defending a genocidal regime in your free time.
Are we talking about China or the US? Can you recognize your own bullshit? Do YOU get paid? by @TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl reason: not productive
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Removed Comment It would be pretty embarrassing if you were uttering this nonsense for free. I hope you're at least getting paid for it. Imagine defending a genocidal regime in your free time. That's more than just morally bankrupt. by @DdCno1@beehaw.org reason: not productive
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Removed Comment I’ll admit, your comment is amazing.
You start by saying that Hamas is so unlike a government or even an organized terrorist group like Isis that no one can possibly use common counter terror tactics against them, and by the end your saying that they are the government of Gaza repeating civilians who don’t want peace and which is actively fighting a war.
As to your point about bunkers. Yes soldiers die in combat, that is why Isreal gives them combat pay. If you never send soldiers to fight against Hamas to gather intelligence from the places where you say there is the intelligence necessary to fight them, then by your own admission you are not trying to fight Hamas.
Their was a reason why for instance the US sent actual soldiers with training in intelligence gathering into Osama Bin Ladin’s compound instead of just launching a few unguided bombs which lacked the physical accuracy to hit a specific building, even though doing so risked the soldiers getting shot at. But hay, maybe if the Israeli soldiers are unable to clear bunkers they can beg for the US to send the soldiers it used to clear the far more heavily fortified bunkers networks in the mountains of Afghanistan.
Because going to where the enemy is and trying to get basic intelligence isn’t fighting fair, it is what you need to do to fight period.
Moreover, why would Egypt want a bunch of Israeli refugees? Because at the end of the day, Palestinians are people who lived on the land that is now called Isreal for thousands of years, and now live in locked down territories that are administered and controlled by the Israeli government, and who by the Isreali governments own policy are dependent on Israel for their safety. Surely it is Isreal’s responsibility to intograte them into its population, not some foreign government.
But as to your original point. Irregardless of what you personally think the word means.
In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group"
Palestinians are an ethnic group native to Palesitine, read Isreal, and not Egypt. Removing them from their houses in Palestine, after they were expelled from their homes in Isreal for being the wrong race, and putting them in the desert south of Gaza seems like an effort to destroy an ethnic group by a prolonged effort of ethnic cleaning.
Although if you want to be more specific and talk about the words your original comment was about.
Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal such as deportation or population transfer, it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return, such as murder, rape, and property destruction.
I really don’t see how the forced relocation by property destruction could be contested, seeing as the IDF is again by its own admission not using weapons capable of targeting specific buildings. Pushing all the civilians further south so that ‘they’ stop attacking is also, fun fact, called collective punishment and is prohibited by section 33 of the Geneva convention. by Sonori reason: cleanup
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Removed Comment You say "Hamas" like they're a set of uniformed people that can be targeted. They aren't, they're a guerilla group operating intentionally inside civilian locations and even households in order to shield themselves or at least cause public outcry when Israel goes after them.
Why does the IDF refuse to send people into bunkers? Because it's a great way to lose a lot of soldiers, bunkers literally exist to prevent entry and capturing them will cost tens of thousands of Israeli lives. Why should Israel have to fight fair if Hamas will not?
Why are they being pushed closer to the border? Because if nobody lives up north, then Hamas can't use the northern areas to attack the adjacent areas.
Also important to remember, is that Gaza itself was created by an invasion from Egypt the day after Israel declared independence, and was controlled by Egypt for almost 20 years before Israel took it back. Now Egypt locks that border and doesn't want these people either, while simultaneously not giving much of a shit about the tunnels being used to smuggle arms into Gaza.
Israel isn't even trying to kill a large number of the supposedly targeted population, there are a couple of million people in Gaza, and they're only at a few tens of thousands after months. That's near the birth rate of the area. They may be trying to expel them from the area, but I don't really classify that alone as genocide, given what genocide has historically looked like.
What's happening to the 8 million Uyghurs right now in China is genocide with forced marriages and banning of cultural practices, what's happening to the hundreds of thousands of forcibly transferred children in the Ukraine-Russia conflict is genocide, what happened to the millions of Jews killed by the Germans was genocide.
Killing 30,000 out of over two million Palestinians and pushing them into a smaller area at the south part of Israel so they stop attacking them just doesn't meet the bar of genocide for me. Israel had to build a multi-billion dollar fucking rocket defence system just to keep civilian deaths down from this neighbor that wants peace so badly. That worked so well that Hamas instead decided to just build some tunnels and kill a thousand Israeli civilians directly, and their people cheered them on for it. I call that a war.
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Removed Comment If this is Israel trying to ethnic cleanse like the headline, they're doing an absolutely shit job of it. They haven't even killed 1% of the population in 5 months.
I really wish people would use the right words to describe the situation.
Palestine is being given arms by Iran and friends to attack Israel, Israel is being given arms by the US and friends to protect itself from Iran and friends.
This is called a proxy war, not a genocide. It sucks thay civilians are caught up in it. However that's one of the upsides for Iran and friends, and completely intentional, they don't give a shit about sacrificing Palestinians in their crusade against the western powers.
This war would be over tomorrow if Palestinians had no constant supply of smuggled weapons. They sure as hell can't support the fight themselves.
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