• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    This could only be ‘shocking’ because “war” is a misleading misnomer used to obfuscate the nature of the occupation.

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    There are like 10,000 Hamas members TOTAL so yah if you have 60,000 deaths then BASIC COMMON SENSE would tell you this is clearly a genocidal attack on civilians. I doubt the ratio is even 1:6 because they sure as fuck haven’t eliminated every Hamas member at this point.

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        Notably hamas being essentially the government there includes clerks cooks janitors, plumbers.

        Kinda hard to personally blow up the building where bob the plumber sleeps killing him his kids and 10 other folks and claim to have hit any military targets.

        Governments often claim to kill a military target when they kill a prime age male even without realistically identifying a combatant especially where bombing is used.

        It’s probably closer to 80-90% civilians

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          It’s probably closer to 80-90% civilians

          Yeah likely 90%+ (90% is what you get when you assume a civilian man was killed for every civilian woman).

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    I would say 6/6 are civilians. Can’t blow up a man’s whole family and act like he’s the terrorist when he retaliates using the only means available.

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    The number of people killed is actually the number of verified dead bodies; it doesn’t include people blown to pieces or buried under debris. I feel like that meaningful difference should always be presented instead of casually simplifying it to “number of people killed.”

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    A lot of people I ask in person don’t happen to realize the size and population of Gaza compared to the state they live in. When you add that perspective, it might change their perspective.

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    What is the future plan for this now? Let’s say we get peace between Israel and Palestine. How can one expect any country to live peacefully next to an other country that has taken a huge bite off its demographic like this?