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Israeli officials are constantly being asked "how many dead palestinians is too many" in this conflict, and the answer has explicitly been "there is no such thi

Israeli officials are constantly being asked "how many dead palestinians is too many" in this conflict, and the answer has explicitly been "there is no such thing" way too many times. There is no upper limit on how many people can be killed to further their goals. The most upsetting(for me) thing is reports of all the kids killed by snipers and just in general, as a father I cannot imagine losing my child to this. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestini... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/23/israel-killing-children-west-bank https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/23/israel...

lupusreal 3y ago
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Angostura 3y ago
Has any combatant in any armed struggle ever given a clear answer to that question?
- roywiggins 3y ago
  If you multiply out the number of targets that Lavender generated by the number of acceptable civilian deaths per target, you get a number that is ~40% of all Gazans.
  - cutemonster 3y ago
    And if killing that many, there'd be many times more severely wounded/impaired, meaning, everyone
- gambiting 3y ago
  Journalists aren't asking combatants - they are asking politicians in the Israeli government. Because there has to be a number, right? Is 30k dead palestinians too many? Is 50k? is 200k? How about all of them?
  - Angostura 3y ago
    Ny combatants, I meant the political entites fighting - in this case that would be the state of Israel and Hamas.
majikaja 3y ago
Cognitive dissonance? Those children are just cockroaches to a large portion of the Israeli population The mistake the west made was not recognizing that some Israelis are just as capable of the same level of savagery as the original Hamas attacks. 'They share the same values as us westerners', they said.... they assassinated their own president!

lupusreal 3y ago

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Angostura 3y ago

Has any combatant in any armed struggle ever given a clear answer to that question?

roywiggins 3y ago
If you multiply out the number of targets that Lavender generated by the number of acceptable civilian deaths per target, you get a number that is ~40% of all Gazans.
- cutemonster 3y ago
  And if killing that many, there'd be many times more severely wounded/impaired, meaning, everyone
gambiting 3y ago
Journalists aren't asking combatants - they are asking politicians in the Israeli government. Because there has to be a number, right? Is 30k dead palestinians too many? Is 50k? is 200k? How about all of them?
- Angostura 3y ago
  Ny combatants, I meant the political entites fighting - in this case that would be the state of Israel and Hamas.

majikaja 3y ago

Cognitive dissonance? Those children are just cockroaches to a large portion of the Israeli population The mistake the west made was not recognizing that some Israelis are just as capable of the same level of savagery as the original Hamas attacks. 'They share the same values as us westerners', they said.... they assassinated their own president!