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by rendall 3y ago
I'm not trying to provoke trouble. Just trying to understand what you meant. I do not believe that Israel is actually committing war crimes. I've seen no credible evidence for it. I have seen lots of evidence of war crime by Hamas
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by rendall 3y ago
Of course, generally speaking. If that Palestinian is Hamas or Islamic Jihad or other terrorist, no. My question was genuine. Are you as outraged over the deaths of the collective over 1M Syrians, Yemeni and Sudanese civilians as you are ab
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by rendall 3y ago
Perhaps I learn something new, of which I was not previously aware. Or, in articulating it, you do? It's possible we each have information the other does not.
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by rendall 3y ago
I'm listening. Do you have evidence of IDF planting evidence? Do you have motivation for why they would do this?
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by rendall 3y ago
Why does this, relatively speaking, extremely low rate of civilian casualties concern you so? Honest question. Have you been similarly concerned by the extremely high rates of ongoing civilian casualties in Syria, Sudan, and Yemen? Those
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by rendall 3y ago
When you say "a lot" in this thread I honestly don't know what you mean. "So confident and yet so wrong" was admittedly prickly, but my follow up question was earnest, not a personal attack. Direct, but not snarky.
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by rendall 3y ago
Tell me more about this. _Israel is making it impossible for anyone besides Hamas to verify those numbers..._ Is Israel preventing journalists from entering Gaza? If so, how does this reconcile with the OP article?
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by rendall 3y ago
What is indefensible by Israel in Gaza?
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by rendall 3y ago
> ...when the IDF has told so very many lies, and been caught in them so many times - the IDF simply cannot be trusted. Not a thing that happened, but it has a become a truism in certain circles that Jews lie, which naturally transform
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by rendall 3y ago
So confused. From whom did Israel seize control of Gaza in 1967? From the Palestinian Authority or what? Edit: So, for those of you inclined to believe that "both sides probably have a point" but are otherwise not clear. No. This
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by rendall 3y ago
> This is revisionist history - Gaza was never even part of Egypt So confident and yet so wrong. This is literally history. Are you pro-Hamas because you don't know the history of the region, or do you not know the history region
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by rendall 3y ago
Video evidence: Hamas Planted Explosives Inside A Gaza Kindergarten : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQefwUWJwz8 Hamas Fighting in Civilian Clothes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk7IKvIROXk UN Report
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by rendall 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628388
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by rendall 3y ago
> "That is not at all what I said -" You literally did say that. In response to: >> "who deliberately positions military hardware such as rocket launchers in and around civilians and civilian infrastructure"
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by rendall 3y ago
> We've also seen no credible evidence... We have seen plenty of credible evidence. Just, no evidence that you will accept.
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by rendall 3y ago
Did you know that Israel tried to give Gaza back to Egypt and West Bank back to Jordan? They refused. Palestinians are endless trouble. This is known throughout the Arab world. It's hardly an "occupation". Israel doesn&#x27
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by rendall 3y ago
> Gaza is a very dense, urban area, so it's kind of unavoidable This is why Hamas hides weapons inside of schools, mosques and hospitals, according to you?
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by rendall 3y ago
> Except, thats not really true, is it? Hamas have been openly saying for several years now that they have no beef with people of the Jewish faith, they just want their homes back. No, that is not what they have been saying. That'
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by rendall 3y ago
> 30-50k... so far... ... according to Hamas.
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by rendall 3y ago
You could address the accusation directly rather than diverting with labels of "bias" and "propaganda". Tell us all how Hamas, as an incorruptible bastion of truth and honor, has neither incentive nor opportunity to infl
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by rendall 3y ago
You would be correct were the war about retaliation. It is not retaliation. It is a military operation. It is a military operation to remove an implacable enemy who deliberately positions military hardware such as rocket launchers in and ar
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by rendall 3y ago
"The Nakba" was a result of the war begun by Arabs. Without that war, there would have been no "Nakba". Israel invited the local Arabs to participate in the new nation. Some Arabs took them up on the offer, and they and
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by rendall 3y ago
What is the mechanism by which orbiting bodies exchange energy?
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by rendall 3y ago
Often these people are clients, so it's partly the team job to save them from themselves.
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by rendall 3y ago
If you want to meet our arguments, refute the specific claims we make; either that the facts are false, or that the facts do not demonstrate Shirky's law. Otherwise we're just arguing in circles. To recap, here is a list: UNRWA c
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by rendall 3y ago
> That's a backwards way of assigning moral responsibility. "Moral responsibility" is a non-sequitur. The discussion is whether UNRWA perpetuates the problem it purports to solve. Several of us have demonstrated that the
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by rendall 3y ago
> The idea that, if it weren't for UNRWA, there would be no more refugees because they'd all have gone back home or been peacefully resettled elsewhere, is absurd And yet this is exactly what the UNHCR does. A refugee settles
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by rendall 3y ago
> I see no evidence that UNRWA is the one trying to maintain the status quo. You are one of the rare few. UNRWA is losing funding precisely because this evidence exists and is compelling. UNRWA could not have been ignorant of the terro
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by rendall 3y ago
Even that Economist opinion piece has this line: "That was the role of UNRWA: to preserve the status quo." > The idea that UNRWA is the primary party responsible for perpetuating the situation, in order to therefore perpetuate
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by rendall 3y ago
> Netanyahu’s and his party kept Hamas alive Sounds suss, like a "Jews created the Holocaust, actually" narrative. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but whenever someone presents their "evidence"

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