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Nearly 70 percent of deaths in Gaza are women and children: UN
(www.aljazeera.com)
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Why are so many women and children joining Hamas?
Why is Hamas using their own people as shields? Why did the people let Hamas rule?
I know you really think this is a defense of Israel, but I encourage you to actually find the answer.
Do I have to ask the Illuminati? Or aljazeera?
I engaged in good faith and you continue to be a shithead. Bye.
I wouldn't call that good faith, but nice try.
How about Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev, the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s.
Oh look - a New York Times reporter saved us the trouble. Turns out that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who also corroborated this statement).
...there's that, and the whole military occupation to maintain an apartheid state in an open air concentration camp, the decades-long annexation campaign. You'll be surprised to learn that people find that kind of thing upsetting.
Thank you for providing the first real information here. But the last paragraph doesn't sit right with me, the things hamas did is not resistance. And also you make it sound like the Palestinians didn't chose "Hamas" but in the end you try to relativize what happened on 7th of Oct as a result of "military occupation" etc.
So what now? Also I think its pointless to bring this up here, but seeing how people react across the world in terms of the terror atrocities, its quite clear on what side the palestianias stand on...on the wrong one. I am really sorry for people who ACTUALLY want to have a peaceful live, no matter what religion or origin.
The PLO were in power, Israel knew who Hamas were, and funded their rise to power (for what reason other than to manufacture the pretext for this genocide?), they also created and maintained the conditions that would motivate and justify violent resistance, so yes - Israel are responsible for Hamas.
In maintaining the horrible conditions I pointed to, Israel further motivated people to push back by any means necessary while giving them as little as possible to live for.
You don't get to tell us you want peace as you defend a genocide. You don't get to tell us about atrocities as the IDF gleefully document dozens per day, and you don't get to tell the people you're genociding that they're wrong.
With that all clarified, what would justifiable Palestinian self-defence look like, and do those principles apply equally to Israel?
So basically Hamas is an inside job in order for Israel to exterminate innocent people? And the reasoning for that is...? I guess 7th October was also a self made incident?
What's your explanation for Israel funding the terrorists' displacement of the secular moderates with predictable, deadly results?
What - you think Netanyahu cares about Israelis given his refusal of ceasefire after ceasefire and hostage exchange after hostage exchange? How quaint.
Seems straightforwardly clear that it was to manufacture the pretext for the current genocide.
Thats quite the "theory". Also I am still failing to see the motivation? "just kill some muslims" and sacrifice some of our own for that?
For the third time - why did Israel fund Hamas' displacement of the secular moderates with predictable results?
Kill the Palestinians, take their land - you know - exactly what they've been doing for decades, and were able to dramatically accelerate after October 7th.
Ah okay, Israel just wants more land... that is why they sacrifice their own people and kill "innocents". Sorry but no, I rather see the truth in it. And seemingly the world is also moving towards that. Lets see what Trump will do in that regard. :)
Why did Netanyahu sacrifice Israelis to refuse multiple ceasefires and hostage exchanges?
...but more relevantly, for the 4th time, you genocide defending piece of shit, why did Israel fund Hamas' displacement of the secular moderates with predictable results?
There's a reason you're refusing to answer the question - it's perfectly clear that Netanyahu is willing to sacrifice Israeli lives if it means that he can kill more Palestinians. You keep stating the obvious in an incredulous tone because you don't have an alternative explanation - there isn't one. You tell us you see the truth, then get all shy about it.
Go cheer for more dead Israelis, ya antisemitic piece of shit.
Wow, that went dogshit pretty fast. Sorry to see that as soon as someone tries to reach deeper into your argument you go full illuminati. So yea Netanyahu is killing his own people so he can kill more palestinians, check. And I am all of a sudden also antisemitic, check. I think I take my leave... ^^
Thanks for playing, Rudolph Jitler, but no prizes for a performance like that.
Why? Because it's so plain in sight that everybody knows about it? I doubt it.
Tell me why the people of Palestine voted for hamas (almost 20 years ago by the way).
If you don't know, look it up. If you don't care, that'll explain all I need to know.
Well, nice. Rape is no resistance.
I'm asking why they voted for hamas nearly 2 decades ago and you run to October 7th.
Fine, rape is no excuse for genocide then.
I'd say any claims about rape being a justification for genocide have lost their weight after Israelis protested punishment of IDF soldiers for rape of prisoners on the basis of "Palestinians deserving it". There are no moral arguments supporting begining, maintaining or continuing the genocide in Gaza.
Uhh sure, whatever floats your boat.
You can't actually be this ignorant...
Yes they can be that ignorant. Let’s stop pretending people are smart. The last 10 years has proven people are raging morons and proud of it.
I disagree - I think the majority know they're lying, and support the genocide - they're just cowards too gutless to say so.
You give these monsters any sort of push, and they start using Palestinian and Hamas interchangeably which really gives the game away... keep going, and they start screaming their support for wiping Palestine off the map.