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[-] FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

You could always go with the Obama method and just count every person above the age of twelve as an "enemy combatant".

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

If you look at the demographics of Gaza, that may not be as far off as you think. The median age for the whole area is only 19, and there is proof Hamas is recruiting as young as 12.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Christ, that's depressing. It's wild what people have to do to survive when they don't have a military and the world's preeminent superpower is funding their country's ethnic cleansing.

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