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“We are asked to look for high-rise buildings with half a floor that can be attributed to Hamas,” said one source who took part in previous Israeli offensives i

“We are asked to look for high-rise buildings with half a floor that can be attributed to Hamas,” said one source who took part in previous Israeli offensives in Gaza. “Sometimes it is a militant group’s spokesperson’s office, or a point where operatives meet. I understood that the floor is an excuse that allows the army to cause a lot of destruction in Gaza. That is what they told us. “If they would tell the whole world that the [Islamic Jihad] offices on the 10th floor are not important as a target, but that its existence is a justification to bring down the entire high-rise with the aim of pressuring civilian families who live in it in order to put pressure on terrorist organizations, this would itself be seen as terrorism. So they do not say it,” the source added. https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/ https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-cal... The destruction levied in Gaza is not about achieving any military aims. It is about satiating the Israeli public's monstrous appetite for blood. The primary goal of the government is ensuring that it wins the next election too. Benjamin Netanyahu wasn't joking when he said "remember Amalek".

lovelyviking 3y ago
In your response I did not see your answer to the significant part of the question in parent comment. Which is: “ What would you suggest Israel do if fighting hamas is not an option.” Avoiding hard questions is easier as it doesn’t require responsibility. Are you able to provide your answer please to the hardest part of the parent comment?
- bjourne 3y ago
  This is the same false dilemma that the American war hawks posed prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. "What should we do if we can't invade Iraq??" You were then supposed to argue that the US had options and the hawks would then one by one attempt to disqualify those options. It's an incredibly dishonest way of conducting debate. Read the article I linked to. Then claim with a straight face that razing Gaza is the only option Israel has.
  - lovelyviking 3y ago
    > Read the article I linked to. Then claim with a straight face that razing Gaza is the only option Israel has. Great comment and again no answer. You think question with suggestive answer is dishonest way of conducting debate? Ok. I get that. Let’s remove any suggestiveness from the question. “ What would you suggest Israel do if fighting hamas is not an option.” I am not OP an I personally did not suggest anything, I just wanted to see your responsible answer. So, what Israel should do in your opinion? And what outcome you expect after it does it? PS: I’ve read the article. Disappointed by the quality of it. It is written with intention of emotional impact and to push predefined agenda. It twists meaning by playing with words. I notice those tricks and can’t read it with keeping my face ‘straight’( using your word).
    - DiogenesKynikos 3y ago
      > It is written with intention of emotional impact and to push predefined agenda. The "agenda" is to make people aware of the fact that Israel is deliberately targeting civilians, based on sources within the IDF who work on targeting. The "emotional impact" is that any person with normal human emotions would be sickened by the fact that Israel is killing tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza.
      - lovelyviking 3y ago
        Unfortunately I notice the same tricks in your comment. I know I asked another person but the main question was : “ What Israel should do in your opinion? What outcome you expect once it does it?” Can you answer that question too? As to the “agenda” I see different “agenda”.
        DiogenesKynikos 3y ago
        Israel should either withdraw from the occupied territories or grant citizenship to the people who live there. What it definitely should not do is murder thousands of Palestinian children and destroy the Gaza Strip. However, this is what Israel has chosen to do.

lovelyviking 3y ago

In your response I did not see your answer to the significant part of the question in parent comment. Which is: “ What would you suggest Israel do if fighting hamas is not an option.” Avoiding hard questions is easier as it doesn’t require responsibility. Are you able to provide your answer please to the hardest part of the parent comment?

bjourne 3y ago
This is the same false dilemma that the American war hawks posed prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. "What should we do if we can't invade Iraq??" You were then supposed to argue that the US had options and the hawks would then one by one attempt to disqualify those options. It's an incredibly dishonest way of conducting debate. Read the article I linked to. Then claim with a straight face that razing Gaza is the only option Israel has.
- lovelyviking 3y ago
  > Read the article I linked to. Then claim with a straight face that razing Gaza is the only option Israel has. Great comment and again no answer. You think question with suggestive answer is dishonest way of conducting debate? Ok. I get that. Let’s remove any suggestiveness from the question. “ What would you suggest Israel do if fighting hamas is not an option.” I am not OP an I personally did not suggest anything, I just wanted to see your responsible answer. So, what Israel should do in your opinion? And what outcome you expect after it does it? PS: I’ve read the article. Disappointed by the quality of it. It is written with intention of emotional impact and to push predefined agenda. It twists meaning by playing with words. I notice those tricks and can’t read it with keeping my face ‘straight’( using your word).
  - DiogenesKynikos 3y ago
    > It is written with intention of emotional impact and to push predefined agenda. The "agenda" is to make people aware of the fact that Israel is deliberately targeting civilians, based on sources within the IDF who work on targeting. The "emotional impact" is that any person with normal human emotions would be sickened by the fact that Israel is killing tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza.
    - lovelyviking 3y ago
      Unfortunately I notice the same tricks in your comment. I know I asked another person but the main question was : “ What Israel should do in your opinion? What outcome you expect once it does it?” Can you answer that question too? As to the “agenda” I see different “agenda”.
      - DiogenesKynikos 3y ago
        Israel should either withdraw from the occupied territories or grant citizenship to the people who live there. What it definitely should not do is murder thousands of Palestinian children and destroy the Gaza Strip. However, this is what Israel has chosen to do.