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The problem with accepting military work is that foreign governments will now consider you a legitimate military target.
by pm90 6mo ago
The problem with accepting military work is that foreign governments will now consider you a legitimate military target.
- laughing_man 6mo agoThe Iranians have considered anyone doing business with the Israelis a "legitimate military target" since 1979.
- Computer0 6mo ago[flagged]
- laughing_man 6mo agoSo you think a foreign distributer for some random Israeli agricultural product is a legitimate target? That's disturbing.
- kobalsky 6mo agoI mean during ww2 civilians and supply chains were bombed to hell and back. now this is a "small", "far away" war, so killing civilians isn't expected, but for them a supplier of agricultural products is feeding the soldiers that will be stomping their heads if this keeps escalating. I'm not justifying anyone here, I'm just pointing out how ridiculous it sounds when we try to define a set of rules to kill each other and then say they are violating them, when we know that the good guys bombed whole cities to the ground, and will bomb whole cities to the ground, when it matters. there's so much hate in the region that this stuff will only end one way, and I personally don't want to see Iran winning this, but let's call war by it's name.
- laughing_man 6mo agoHow should the Israelis be expected to respond if Iran starts deliberately killing large numbers of civilians? You only have to follow the laws of war if your enemy is making an attempt to follow them.
- Computer0 6mo agoIran has a right to defend itself doesn't it? All Israelis with the exception of the Haredi serve in the Israeli Occupation Force.
- laughing_man 6mo agoNot at any given time, though. It's okay for Iran to kill Israeli children because they may some day serve in the IDF? Then I guess it's okay for the Israelis to carpet bomb Iranian cities?
- Computer0 6mo agoThe ideology guiding the state of Israel is inherently evil. We should not discuss what is 'okay' or 'not okay' for an evil state to do.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> foreign governments will now consider you a legitimate military target Iran has been very liberal with what it considers military targets. There is no evidence rejecting military work has protected anyone from it.
- sysguest 6mo agowell dance festival is a 'military target' to them
- Computer0 6mo ago[flagged]
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> If I found a group of terrorist sympathizers invading my property and dancing on it I wouldn't be very empathetic to them But it would be your choice to commit terrorism back at them. Plenty of people across history have chosen both ways. It tends to go much better for one group over the other.
- spaghetdefects 6mo agoI don't think that's "terrorism" as much as it is self defense. The Haitian Slave Revolt and Indigenous American Pueblo Revolts come to mind as analogous military actions that produced positive results.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> don't think that's "terrorism" as much as it is self defense Everyone says this. If October 7 had limited itself to military targets, this would have been different. If current polling showed Gazans pushing for only military retaliation, I think things would be different. Everyone has the right to self defense. But everyone also gets judged by how they do it. > Haitian Slave Revolt Claimed territory with a plan for maneouvre. Not particularly comparable outside minor tactical elements. > Indigenous American Pueblo Revolts come to mind This is a good analogy. I’ll have to read up on it more. To wit, however, they eventually accepted the new—awful, unfair and racist, I may add, but survivable and superior to the alternative of endless war—status quo.