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You are not arguing honestly by claiming it's 55 "commanders" vs [inflated number] civilians. It's very likely the 2:1 ratio of civilian:Hamas is correct given
by ashirusnw 3y ago
You are not arguing honestly by claiming it's 55 "commanders" vs [inflated number] civilians.
It's very likely the 2:1 ratio of civilian:Hamas is correct given the intense ground battle and that the 17-19K death toll clearly is includes thousands of Hamas fighters. The ratio of civilian deaths for similar urban wars is much worse.
- alexisread 3y agoOk, that's fair to argue over the figures. The point I was making was that displacing the entire Gazan population is not insignificant, and more indicative of ethnic cleansing than a small conflict. As to the other points about fostering integration rather than segregation, those go here unanswered as they are valid. I'll link https://ncase.me/polygons/ https://ncase.me/polygons/ here, as a simplified example of why this matters. I would also add that this is going in the opposite direction here, thanks to this conflict amplifying extreme views, and unhelpful and discriminatory laws such as Administrative Detention https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/29/why-does-israel-have-so-many-palestinians-detention-and-available-swap https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/29/why-does-israel-have-so-...