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People who think it's acceptable to bomb civilian residential areas flat because they're "booby trapped" are lost souls.
by nick_ 1y ago
People who think it's acceptable to bomb civilian residential areas flat because they're "booby trapped" are lost souls.
- dotancohen 1y agoThose booby traps also kill Gazan children. Did you see that recent video of the Gazan girl getting blown to bits? They tried to pin it on Israel, but it was a Hamas IED. That's why there was a camera pointed at it.
- 8note 1y agosorry, is this an argument that no israeli explosions are caught on camera? that seems unlikely
- nobankai 1y agoYou are talking to an ex-IDF member who is being deliberately obtuse.
- dotancohen 1y agoIn what sense am I being obtuse? By actually talking to Gazans?
- nobankai 1y ago[dead]
- dotancohen 1y agoNo, this is what Gazans in Gaza say. They say that the camera was pointed at the IED location to film Israeli soldiers tripping it.
- tdeck 1y agoImagine having your comment history and pretending to care about children in Gaza being blown to bits. Unreal.
- dotancohen 1y ago[flagged]
- SilverElfin 1y agoDo you care about the safety and security of people in Israel? What would you do if a fundamentalist group shot thousands of rockets into your town over a decade?
- tdeck 1y ago[flagged]
- mirekrusin 1y agoThe question was what would you do, not what you wouldn't do.
- tdeck 1y agoWhat would you do if you were a southern governor responding to a slave revolt? It's the same kind of question. I wouldn't build my society on ethnic supremacy and then seek to maintain that through force.
- DiogenesKynikos 1y agoWhat would you do if you were expelled from your homeland at gunpoint by foreign settlers, and then 19 years later, your refugee camp was conquered by the very same people, who then ruled over you using brute military force for nearly 60 years, with no end in sight?
- linehedonist 1y agoIf I lived in a bad neighborhood, I would leave. Why don’t Israelis?
- Braxton1980 1y agoWhy does this matter? This is an argument that Hamas is bad not why buildings need to be destroyed
- dotancohen 1y agoIt matters because those structures have been converted from peoples' homes to weapons of war. And those weapons are dangerous to both Israeli soldiers and to Gazan citizens. Many of the dead children pinned on Israel are the result of the bobby trapped buildings. This actually makes sense in Muslim media, where culturally those killed by either side are considered martyrs and afforded the gifts of heaven. But it makes no sense in Western media where human life is supposedly valued.
- tiahura 1y ago[flagged]
- zipzapzip 1y ago[flagged]
- mensetmanusman 1y agoYou definitely won the argument.
- dang 1y ago"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 1y agoWtf? We've banned this account.
- zipzapzip 1y ago[dead]