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Ex-Human Rights Watch chief - Israel violating humanitarian law in Gaza
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this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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At first I thought this was about a terrorist attack that killed more than a thousand denying their human right to live. Then I remembered those didn't have the right to exist in the first place.
The whole point of human rights, is that they can't be taken away from people. Both populations have the right to exist. To say otherwise simply invites unending religious war.
That's funny, because Hamas denies Israel's right to exist and have said that publicly. Which was the twist in my original comment.
There's bad actors on both sides. The trouble is there's a huge power asymmetry politically right now.
We're in a position where a fascist ideologue religious military group has entrenched itself in politics, that's a terrible position to be in. But we're not going to get out of this position by saying one population doesn't deserve to live
Ah, it's a both sides guy.
I know right! Can you imagine populations of millions of people have different subgroups which behave differently? And you can't condemn an entire ethnic group by the actions of some of them? World is so unfair, be easy if it was simple, we could just kill all the bad guys.
But if one of the populations doesn't deserve to live, who gets to decide which one dies?
Ahhh a kneejerk reaction guy. Seriously. Do you not understand that civilians on both sides are being wiped out?
You've not even seen what is going to happen yet
Okay so your beef is with Hamas then. Not Palestine.
Sure. Know a few Palestinians and their food isn't too bad.