Israel is partially to blame for how successful Hamas's attack on October 7th was and of course for the original motivation to commit such strikes.
So if I shot you, it's partly your fault for not dodging, right ?
Except, in this case, you had him tied to a chair first and shot him because he spat on you.
Gaza is just the Stanford Prison Experiment on a larger scale.
Aye stop killing civilians Abraham you cunt
Hamas started the war. Hamas took hostages to force a ground campaign. Hamas spent huge amounts of resources building an underground tunnel network. To say they dug in within the civilian population of Gaza is a massive understatement. Hamas does not wear uniforms when they fight.
Those are facts that oversimplified cartoon memes can't change.
Even if we assume everything you said was completely true and without merit... Does it justify IDF knowingly killing civilians?
It's war. If there's a valid military objective, then you hit the target even when you know civilian casualties are possible. Efforts should be made 9and they are) to prevent civilian casualties, but in a war civilian casualties are inevitable.
Hamas knew civilian casualties would happen in the war they started. In fact they started the war by killing civilians. Hamas simply didn't care about civilian casualties, both Israeli and Palestinian.
Isn'treal has been doing a genoicide lots longer than october the 8th, look at the Nakba, Heck look at the statments the government of Isn'treal makes about the palistinians.
The good old cycle of violence, huh? Logically if the Nakba justifies October 7, then October 7 justifies everything that's happening now.
Of course logically speaking, when you choose violence, the only thing that matters is which side has the greater capability of exercising violence on the other. And that side is clearly Israel.
The Nakba may have given Palestinians a stronger hand at the negotiating table. But Palestinians chose Hamas and Hamas chose violence. Their grievances are irrelevant when they commit an act of war.
It is shitty that civilians get caught up in this but I feel it's a lot as if Nazi germany accused the allies of genocide in WW2. There simply is no moral base for this. And let's not forget Hamas was also voted into power at some point.
So what are saying is that because the allies bombed Dresden, the Germans were actually defending themselves against the Jews?
And you say that you agree with the Nazi's committing the Holocaust?
Wtf is wrong with you dude
Half the population wasn't yet born the last time elections were held.
Still they don't do anything to bring change.
Consistency is not necessary, IMO. What did Israel expect Gaza to do when they started genociding them? The deaths of all civilians as well as all combatants are the fault of Israel. They don't get to play dumb about what was going to happen after starting a genocide.
I disagree. It's difficult to ask perfection from Palestinian resistance but there were still mistakes made. But two wrongs do not make a right and we need to stay morally consistent.
If a Hamas fighter did knowingly shoot a non-combatant then that action is wrong.
