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  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    I think it’s important to keep in mind that Hamas is completely capable - at any moment - of surrendering, releasing all hostages, de-militarizing, and vowing to never again attempt to kill civilians. The water and electricity would come right back on.

    Doing so would save the lives of countless Palestinian civilians, and if they had any care for their lives at all, they would do this immediately.

    • ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml
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      surrendering, releasing all hostages, de-militarizing,

      And allow the genocide of Palestine to continue without opposition? Why should they simply lay down and die? Because fighting back is distasteful?

      • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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        I must have missed the lesson in school about how the way to resist oppression is to rape and murder hundreds of innocent civilians at a festival.

        It’s not as if there were a lack of military targets around. If Hamas had strictly focused on attacking military bases and infrastructure, I might be able to be sympathetic. At the least, that would fall under the umbrella of meaningful resistance. Instead, their sole aim was to murder as many Jews as possible. Kidnapping civilians and threatening to murder them on a livestream is absolutely indefensible.

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        Ah, I forgot, Hamas simply had to rape a bunch of women and butcher 200 people at a festival. That’s just what righteous resistance looks like.

        Or perhaps childish quips aren’t actually useful in a productive conversation, who knows

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          My point was that Israel cannot offload to Hamas all responsibility for the suffering to civilians caused by blockading Gaza. It’s Israel’s choice to react like this. I understand Israel’s reasons for taking this extreme action, but Israel should take responsibility for it, not pretend it was forced into this and it has to keep starving civilians until Hamas capitulates. And of course I’m not condoning the atrocities committed by Hamas.

    • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
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      I think it’s important to keep in mind that the Zionist entity is completely capable - at any moment - of surrendering, releasing all hostages, de-militarizing, and vowing to never again attempt to kill civilians.

      • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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        You know as well as I do that a de-militarized Israel would very rapidly no longer exist.

        If you recall, Gaza was occupied until 2005, when the IDF withdrew as a sign of goodwill towards peace. Gazans then elected Hamas and started shooting rockets at Israeli cities.

        If you’re supporting a side that’s threatening to livestream the murder of hostages, you need to take a very long look in the mirror.