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Bombings and murders are always terrible, however it sounds like you might be advocating for punishing anyone who lives in the region, not the organizations that were responsible for those attacks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_punishment
Yes, it's a very nuanced situation. Incidental casualties are permissive in war though, pretty untroversially, I might add. I'm absolutely not content to let any more generations of Palestinians live and die under the rule of actual terrorists in an actual far-right dictator state. It's sad that 1% of the country there has been unable to escape from Hamas, and got killed for it.
I think the other 99% of people in Gaza are probably ready to move on from Hamas's utterly failed leadership.
Dude are you blind? You're calling genocide "incidental casualties"? When your only argument is "Hamas Bad" maybe you should take a longer look at what Israel is doing to normal people every day. It's absolutely clear you believe normal people are valid military targets, and any argument you come up with is just justifying that stance.
I think you're blind. Hamas is the cause of these high civilian casualties.
99% of Gaza is still alive, though. Those are the normal people.
Israel is responsible for the Settler Colonialism, the Apartheid violence, and this genocide.
Peace Process and Solution
Both Hamas and Fatah have agreed to a Two-State solution based on the 1967 borders for decades. Oslo and Camp David were used by Israel to continue settlements in the West Bank and maintain an Apartheid, while preventing any actual Two-State solution
Hamas proposed a full prisoner swap as early as Oct 8th, and agreed to the US proposed UN Permanent Ceasefire Resolution. Additionally, Hamas has already agreed to no longer govern the Gaza Strip, as long as Palestinians receive liberation and a unified government can take place.
Oslo was used as a land grab while continuing to deny Palestinians human rights
(Oslo Accord Sources: MEE, NYT, Haaretz, AJ).
How Avi Shlaim moved from two-state solution to one-state solution
‘One state is a game changer’: A conversation with Ilan Pappe
One State Solution, Foreign Affairs
Human Shields
Hamas:
HRW on Laws-of-War Violations 2009
Agency Demands Full Respect for the Sanctity of Its Premises in Gaza - July 2014
HRW - Palestinian Armed Groups’ October 7 Assault on Israel
Israel:
Israel/OPT: Israeli attacks targeting Hamas and other armed group fighters that killed scores of displaced civilians in Rafah should be investigated as war crimes
HRW - Gaza: Unlawful Israeli Hospital Strikes Worsen Health Crisis
Additionally, there is extensive independent verification of Israel using Palestinians as Human Shields:
IDF uses Human Shields,
Including Children (2013 Report)
Palestinian children face unrelenting genocide, displacement, and systematic abuse throughout 2024
Israel “Systematically” Uses Gaza Children as Human Shields, Rights Group Finds 2024
Breaking The Silence - Testimonies from IDF Veterans
Deliberate Attacks on Civilians
Israel deliberately targets civilian areas. From in general with the Dahiya Doctrine to multiple systems deployed in Gaza to do so:
The Dahiya Doctrine & Israel’s Use of Disproportionate Force
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
Lavender
Where's Daddy
Israel also targets Israeli Soldiers and Civilians to prevent them being leveraged as hostages, known as the Hannibal Directive. Which was also used on Oct 7th.
And Hamas and their loyal supporters in Gaza use human Shields by the millions, versus like the eight times Israel has done it.
In Israel it's a crime and that people actually get arrested for it every now and then. In Gaza it's the way of life, and the way of death.
It is a deliberate strategy to get as many civilians killed on purpose so that they can trick gullible westerners like you into thinking that Hamas are the actual victims.
Enough is enough. There's not going to be another 100 years of rocket attacks and suicide bombings. Period.
And if Syria and Lebanon and the West Bank can't control the illegal terrorist attacks being launched from their lands, along Israel's borders, Israel has every right to step in and bring law to those unredeemed territories. It's sort of like the law of finders keepers.
Yeah all of that is completely proven false by the sources I provided. You're simply a lazy troll who cares nothing about human rights and instead repeatedly does apologia for genocide and ethnic cleansing
Yeah, blah blah blah, 99% of the Gaza is still alive, though, after more than a year of "genocide and ethnic cleansing." 99%. Like what are you even talking about? 99% hasn't been starved, hasn't been blown up, hasn't been sniped, hasn't been used by IDF as human shields, or whatever other nonsense claims you make again and again.
So that kind of makes you sound like an alarmist fool with no grip on what's actually going on in Gaza. You have a mastery of the propaganda that you copy and paste in every thread, the same five links, that you offer as "proof" of circumstances that you clearly¹ don't understand.
Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Revealed Through Evidence and Analysis
Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza
Israel's Genocide on Occupied Palestine
Others: AP News, Time, Reuters, Vox, CBC
Deliberate Attacks on Civilians
Israel deliberately targets civilian areas. From in general with the Dahiya Doctrine to multiple systems deployed in Gaza to do so:
The Dahiya Doctrine & Israel’s Use of Disproportionate Force
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
Lavender
Where's Daddy
Israel also targets Israeli Soldiers and Civilians to prevent them being leveraged as hostages, known as the Hannibal Directive. Which was also used on Oct 7th.
Yes it's very emotional reading. I try to read objectively though. It's a very complex set of circumstances.
You are very clear that you don't mind condemning millions more Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese from living and dying under of the failed leadership of far right, religious dictators. They are mentally shackled to an imaginary ideological war. Sucks that 1% of them couldn't break free.
Stop launching rockets. Stop sending suicide bombers. Stop with the paraglider mass shootings. Stop killing your own people for not being extreme enough or even hinting at holding an election. Stop letting Iranian money corrupt and commodify every public and private institution anywhere near Israel's borders and just live life. Please?
Nah, can't be done. Unfathomable. Inconievable.
It's very obvious you didn't read a single thing. Especially since the first link was a video