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So according to your transitive logic, Palestinians are all responsible for the kidnappings and murders by Hamas? All Russians are responsible for Putin’s actions? All Salvadorans for Bukele?
It’s that kind of black and white justification that will perpetuate the slaughter of innocent people. You should really consider that the Geneva Convention and The Rome Statute identify civilians as a protected group for a reason.
Are you saying Hamas ran a democratic state? I'd love to hear you make that argument. How long has it been since they allowed elections again?
But since you're making absurd leaps let me make one more. During World War II we bombed Germany's industrial sector. We did it to kill their ability to make tanks and missiles and airplanes. If we hadn't done that the Nazis would have kept going. Maybe even won the war who knows. The point is it was critical mission to destroy their ability to make war. You don't think any civilians got harmed in that? So you saying that no matter what crimes no matter what Horrors a nation perpetrates you can never attack that nation in defense because someone in that Nation might get hurt? Do you understand how absurd that sounds? The whole world has to sit down and let genocidal maniacs exterminate entire peoples. Slaughter children by the truckload. Let snipers play target practice on starving civilians. They can do that with impunity because if one person who doesn't agree with that Nation might get heard in the process then you can't retaliate. That's literally the argument you're making here. Gee I'm sure Netanyahu is a big fan of your argument here.
I’m saying they were elected into power, just the same as Trump and Netanyahu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election
No, I don’t agree with bombing civilians, regardless of the justification. No, I will not defend the atrocities of the US government simply because I’m a citizen. Governments and military are to blame for killing innocent people, not entire nations.
Wow you are making an argument that Hamas runs a democratic state. Yikes. Wish you would have led with that it would have saved us all a lot of time.
By the way who said anything about defend? I know you've moved the goal post a hell of a lot during our conversation but that one's so far I left field I don't think it's in the galaxy.
I said they were elected into power. Do you believe Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are representing their constituents in our representative democracy?
I have moved no goalposts. I maintain the defense of innocent civilians, regardless of their residence. This became a debate when you suggested there are no innocent civilians in Israel, simply because Netanyahu is the aggressor. That’s wildly narrow-minded.