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by dlubarov 6mo ago
I'm not sure what the point is of piling on different accusations. Only one has any evidence, but let's just imagine for the sake of argument that they're all true. Then Israel has at least several criminals, just like every
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
Sovereignity isn't infallible, and Israel has a very clear Article 51 argument due to Hezbollah's attacks. As long as it's temporary (even if the end date isn't clear yet), it's an occupation, not an annexation. Occ
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
> raping a man to death That's not true, he's alive and was released to Gaza in a hostage-for-prisoner exchange. > Their punishment? Literally nothing. It's probably hard to win a case without the victim to testify. The
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
That's just someone talking about their interpretation of Netanyahu's strategy. Individuals can have private thoughts, which others can speculate about. The actual aid deal involved at least three countries (Qatar, Israel and Gaza
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
They were not "caught", it was never a secret that Israel helped facilitate Qatari aid for basic civil services in Gaza.
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
How is that relevant? There’s no exception to self defense for countries we once meddled with.
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
Frost is using quite a long chain of creative assumptions to claim that fighting age male casualties (almost half of all casualties) were mostly civilian. His conclusions are contracted by Hamas' own admissions. Earlier in the war they
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
It seems like you're unable to name any military that broadly deals with terrorists in a cleaner manner, so you've resorted to cherry picking specific alleged incidents that are more specific to Israel. This is like saying that th
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
I just don't see the point of engaging with a big laundry list of random accusations against Israel. Some are likely true. Urban wars aren't rainbows and butterflies, and no military is perfect. Ukraine has had a bunch of incident
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
> And you decided that this is an argument I'm making and decided to argue against that Then what was the point of your numeric comparison? If you agree it's a very poor signal about morality, why bring it up? > What makes I
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
> I'm sure I can name a few militaries [...] Well, when are you planning to name them? If Israel is so evil, it must be very easy to name a few militaries that are much better at fighting terrorists, who dress as civilians and hide
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
I meant rules for journalists specifically; I'm surprised the article doesn't mention it. I think this is a good summary from https://cpj.org/2023/03/new-ukrainian-army-regulations-limit... > The rule
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
I think we're mostly in agreement? I agree civilian casualty ratios can be meaningful signals about morality, provided that we account for context (e.g. whether civilians are trapped in a warzone or able to evacuate) and are careful to
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
Again this isn't controversial; you're denying something that Hamas themselves acknowledge. Sky News: "A total of 6,187 deaths had been confirmed via the online form as of 6 August." https://news.sky.com/
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
Civilians don't have to wear distinguishing marks, combatants do if they care about the laws of war and protecting the civilian population. Just blaming Israel for all civilian harm, when it's Hamas that started the war and disgui
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
Iraq isn't the most useful comparison because it wasn't feasible for the US to fully control access; determined journalists could find ways into the warzone. They still tried to encourage embedded journalists, who they could prote
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
No, that's just saying that the form is for reporting casualties that are not already registered with the MoH. Hamas' casualty numbers came from hospitals and morgues only in the first few months of war; that hasn't been th
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
They somehow manage to find uniforms when they do parades. In any case, the principle of distinction merely requires combatants to wear distinguishing marks. Hypothetically if they ran out of uniforms, they could use something as simple as
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
The 9,500 figure was for all fronts, not just Gaza. But true, it does include some Hamas rockets, most of which are not exactly "Iranian" (although Iran helped with training and smuggling some parts). Another data point - https:&
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
> That number is just recovered dead bodies. Well, it's certainly not limited to bodies that were confirmed by officials in a hospital or morgue. A lot of the casualty reports were from a Google form, or later, a self-hosted form (
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
It's more or less the same with any modern military. Ukraine for example doesn't allow journalists (foreign or not) in the more dangerous areas near front lines, with rare exceptions for journalists that they invite and escort. It
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
Not sure what the best data source is, but one data point is that just in the month or so since Oct 7, the number of rocket/drone attacks against Israel was already around 9,500: https://www.reuters.com/world/middl
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
Why would we look back to the Balfour declaration? Israel has been attacked by tens of thousands of Iranian rockets and drones just since Oct 7. After all their aggression, it seems absurd to paint the Iranian regime as a victim that was at
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
Not exactly "on a whim" after Israel has been attacked by at least a hundred thousand Iranian rockets and drones.
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by dlubarov 6mo ago
The notion of owning or monetizing an international waterway is fundamentally incompatible with customary international law. Iran can try it anyway if they're not worried about international law, but that was always an option for them,
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by dlubarov 7mo ago
We need to have realistic expectations though - air defense is an inherently asymmetric problem. The US broadly has the best air defense, but it's explicitly not focused on Russia or China, because it acknowledges that deterrence is th
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by dlubarov 7mo ago
Correcting misinformation is “shilling”? What does my work have to do with anything? Your claim was that Netanyahu was "on record" with "plenty" of quotes. If that's true, surely it must be very easy to identify two
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by dlubarov 7mo ago
> Benjamin Netanyahu on record. And there's plenty of such quotes. If there are "plenty" of quotes like this, can you identify just one that we know he actually said? (Not the "thwart the establishment of a Palestinia
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by dlubarov 7mo ago
I didn't say anything about who fired the first shot. I was just responding to > Greater Israel expansionism is something Israeli leaders including Bibi constantly say. Israel wants Lebensraum. The reality is that Israelis don'
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by dlubarov 7mo ago
There's no need for anyone to "propagandize" Israelis into fearing attacks; they personally experience enemy attacks all the time. So much so that a lot of Israelis are just sleeping in bomb shelters at this point, so they do

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