Israel/Palestine thread
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Should we start posting pictures of little kids who were killed on Oct 7th? What's the point of posting this picture other than being overly dramatic. We know people are dying. How about doing a little protest against Hamas? How about demand they return the hostages and surrender?
That would stop the deaths don't you think?
Three years after all the surrounding Arab countries got their butts kicked again by Israel and this dude is still spouting resistance. Going through life with the victim mentality will only ensure you will always be a victim.
We will see how rationale Hamas is moving forward. The truth is the world has been rewarding them for decades for being brutal and violent (both towards Israel and the Palestinian people); so their actions were very rationale.
Most of the world it seems would have preferred to keep that status quo, even after 10/7, but Israel went rogue and has unilaterally decided to make sure violence and terror isn't going to be such a +EV strategy moving forward; so we shall see how this alters behavior moving forward.
Yep!
After this is over Gaza is going to be check point city for a long time. I hope an Arab leader steps up and moves Gaza away from victimhood and towards a future of accountability. This city could have been one of the most beautiful in the world.
Very true. It’s an IDF tactic.
Maybe because every news report is about the IDf murdering people?
Hamas has been rational given the incentives presented.
So has Hezbollah ever since Israel “overreacted” to a bunch of kidnappings by invading almost all the way to Beirut.
Some people refuse to come to terms with the fact that we’ve made Israel conduct many AB tests already on appeasement vs “overreaction”/occupation and the latter keeps producing better results, even for the Arabs involved.
This is false. Netanyahu made it clear that they would continue the killing even after the detainees were released.
Something israel need to remember as well
hearing reports that a whole heap of hamas terrorists are about to have a really bad day
are you talking about the carpet bombing and forced displacement of starving civilians in Gaza City? weird thing to celebrate...unless...
So I guess Lancet is Hamas now?
I do not know what they are anymore. But that article is something that belongs in an Al Jazeera Op-Ed; not a peer reviewed medical journal.
I'm marking you down as a "yes."
Anyone else want to make bastshit crazy assertions about Lancet?
An equally large heap of kids too then I guess.
Good to eradicate those terrorists-in-waiting.
thats literally what they say. every day another high level Israeli is saying this.
let's hope not. fingers crossed for dead terrorists only, but there's no doubt that hamas' practice of conducting their terrorist activities in and around schools and hospitals has led to significant numbers of civilian causalities in the past
hopefully they've had a rethink
why would they rethink - they don't care about innocent lives. Do we?
Israeli media reporting what we already know
https://www.972mag.com/israeli-soldiers-...
they are just going around murdering people for funsies.
and sacrificing their own people for that great opportunity to do a bunch of murder.
Hamas clearly does. thats why they take good care of the detainees. its why they dont shoot at medivacs.
for Israel, to them no one is innocent. so, no ofc they dont.
for the West, lol ofc "we" dont.
Yep! Hamas hides were the kids are unfortunately.
Israelis live pretty well. I don't hear much complaining from that side.
So no justification for all the killing and destruction?
I dunno man, this is not the feeling I get from following their twitter and instagram channels.
October 7th was justification.