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submitted 10 months ago by Silverseren@kbin.social to c/world@lemmy.world

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer seemed at a lost of words at the justification being used to bomb a refugee camp in Gaza.

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[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

According to the sentiment of many other comments, no targets are acceptable if there's any chance of civilians getting hit as collateral damage. This essentially means no targets in Gaza are acceptable for air strikes, and the consequence of this would be sending IDF ground troops into a densely populated and well-prepared guerilla fighters' den with extremely high casualties. It seems like most of the critics can't accurately imagine themselves in Israel's position, portraying them as cartoonish villains rather than people trying to keep themselves safe.

[-] BobGnarley@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah just people trying to keep themselves safe in that land they took that did not belong to them.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Before Palestinian forces declared war on them in 1948, Jewish settlers started out legally buying the land. and I believe those who did not flee and were not driven away in the Nakba retained their land. Certainly there were a lot of bad actors in this conflict though, lots of terrorist attacks and massacres by both Arabs and Jews once the cycle of violence got going. Many thinking they were temporarily fleeing danger only to later learn they cannot return.

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub -3 points 10 months ago

Yeah just people trying to keep themselves safe in that land ~they~ their ancestors took that did not belong to them.

1948 was a long time ago.

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