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The US fought in urban settings in Iraq without putting civilian populations under siege and starvation. By all appearances, Israel isn't even trying to conduct

• doctorpangloss 2y ago
  Is it possible to win an urban war lawfully? Iraq is kind of a terrible example. Over a hundred thousand civilians died in Iraq. Maybe most of them died in urban combat settings. Isn't the "Battle of Fallujah" a whitewash of the Siege of Fallujah? (https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2012/1/4/seven-years-after-sieges-fallujah-struggles https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2012/1/4/seven-years-afte...) "Early Target of Offensive Is a Hospital" (https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/world/middleeast/early-target-of-offensive-is-a-hospital.html https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/world/middleeast/early-ta...) "US Admits Using White Phosphorus in Fallujah" (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/iraq.usa https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/iraq.usa) This isn't whataboutism. War is horrible.
  • megous 2y ago
    US fought a war with a well armed state. Israel started by dropping bombs on hundreds of sleeping families, leveling entire neighborhoods and after a month of that, started fighting some ragtag scavenger fighters (non-state actor), who have almost no external support, while continuing to level everything remotely related to governance, culture, or other social institutions that came in their path for seemingly no reason but the desire to completely erase possiblity for Palestinians to live in Gaza. Seems more like an extermination campaign, and no, you can't fight that lawfully.