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Palestine using human shields are not Israel's war crimes. They are Palestine's war crimes. Israel is not at fault for trying to recover hostages from a popula

• ignoramous 2y ago
  > gullible American students The prosecutors at the ICC are neither gullible nor American. > Palestine using human shields are not Israel's war crimes Starvation as a war tactic ... can't be human shields? Dropping a bomb every 50secs for the first 2 weeks and now again in the past week killing 15k+ can't be human shields? Withholding aid, inciting genocide, destroying large swathes of infrastructure isn't merely human shields.
• Georgelemental 2y ago
  There are many, many pieces of evidence I could cite to refute this argument, but the one I find the most compelling is the situation in the West Bank. Hamas does not control that area, there are no "human shields" there. And yet the IDF kills civilians and commits crimes there regularly (with reams of documentation from organizations like https://www.btselem.org/ https://www.btselem.org/ and https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/ https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/). Why should I trust the IDF to be any less criminal in Gaza? > gullible American students I know one such student quite well. They are Jewish, right-wing, and all their life were taught (at the Jewish school they attended, and by their family) to support Israel. Then they went out into the world, and met some Palestinians. Now they are leading protests against the war