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Sinwar's killing is a win for Israel — but many Palestinians are proud of his defiant last stand
  • Everyone who disagrees with you is Hasbara? OK pal.

  • Sinwar's killing is a win for Israel — but many Palestinians are proud of his defiant last stand
  • That's quite a citation spam. You had that all prepared? Hm, curious.

    I don't really want to debate every aspect of this conflict with you, so I'll stick to the matter I was discussing, whether Israel is committing genocide or not:

    • Israel could destroy Gaza in a day if they didn't care about civilians. They haven't. In fact they often do things to reduce civilian casualties that no other nation does, even at the expense of their operational effectiveness. (Roof knocking, warning people to evacuate in advance.) I find that inexplicable if they intended to commit genocide and maximize civilian deaths.
    • Self-defense is not genocide. Collateral damage is not genocide. Genocide, the crime, is a very specific claim of intent to destroy in whole or in part a protected group. Hamas, what Israel has been clear they intend to destroy, is not a protected group under this law. I do not believe evidence has been sufficiently established to make a credible accusation that Israel is attempting to destroy Arabs, Palestinians, or Muslims in whole or in part, (which are the relevant protected groups in this accusation,) especially considering 21% of Israeli citizens are Arab/Muslim, (i.e., the same heritage as Palestinians,) with full rights.
    • There have been some terrible and indefensible statements made by judeofascist members of the Israeli government that might qualify as genocidal, (Ben-Gvir, Eliyahu,) but not by people actually waging this war, and not sufficient to establish genocidal intent by the IDF at large. A while back I actually dug into the quotes SA provided in their IJC case from the ones waging this war, many of which are included in your "law4palestine" citation, (mostly by Gallant and Netanyahu.) When I read them in their original context it was clear they were stripped of important context and/or interpreted in the least charitable way possible to make their case. For example, acknowledging that war takes a toll on civilians and suggesting they should want to avoid conflict is not the same as stating intent to commit genocide via targeting civilians, nor is spouting rhetoric about how their side are the good guys, even though many such statements appear on that list.
    • Your links about statements from XX scholars remind me of the tactics climate change deniers use; cite a handful of experts to appeal to authority even when they may hold a minority opinion. The fact of the matter is the IJC did not find that SA's claims of genocide were plausible, and did not order Israel to stop the war, which is what they would have done if this were a clear case of genocide. Actual judges in positions of authority applying the law is far more compelling to me than a petition by, "legal scholars," or one individual's opinion.
  • Sinwar's killing is a win for Israel — but many Palestinians are proud of his defiant last stand
  • The Atlantic: Understanding Hamas’s Genocidal Ideology

    While one can debate whether Israel is genocidal, (and I don't believe they are,) Hamas has been unequivocally calling for genocide since their creation and has taken actions to that end.

  • Sinwar's killing is a win for Israel — but many Palestinians are proud of his defiant last stand
  • He was likely hiding underground and IDF happened to catch him while he was trying to flee. Ineffectively throwing a stick at a drone leading to his death is a great analog for his military strategy. Under his violent leadership nothing productive was accomplished, and a lot of people died.

  • Sinwar's killing is a win for Israel — but many Palestinians are proud of his defiant last stand
  • At this rate perhaps Hamas will soon no longer be viable and Gazans will have the option to choose non-genocidal leadership instead.

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  • It seems like an intentionally misleading title to get clicks.

  • Israeli Apartheid
  • Yes. In mandatory Palestine before Israel was a thing, Arab nationalists were murdering Jews, which is one of the reasons they banded together in self-defense.

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    Now he's a right-wing loon because he thinks they will let him get away with fraud. He acts like he's on a speed run to ruin his own credibility.

  • Israeli Apartheid
  • A trans supporter of intifada in the wild, you're like chickens for KFC or Jews for Hitler. And you have the gall to call me a fascist bootlicker. 😂

    Guess there's one born every minute.

  • Cheeky
  • From an evolutionary standpoint we just have to survive long enough to reproduce, if we can't eat past age of reproduction there's no evolutionary pressure to change that.

    Thank goodness for modern dentistry.

  • Israeli Apartheid
  • Did you not read this part of the article you linked?:

    smaller groups attempted to breach the fence, rolling tires, and throwing stones and molotov cocktails. Israeli officials said the demonstrations were used by Hamas as cover for launching attacks against Israel.

    At least 189 Palestinians were killed between 30 March and 31 December 2018. An independent United Nations commission said that at least 29 out of the 189 killed were militants. Other sources claim a higher figure, of at least 40.

    Maybe they should try suing for peace and enforcing it internally instead of protesting and trying to breach the border fence? Or perhaps depose violent groups like Hamas and renounce intifada?

    If you think this has been a peaceful resistance, you haven't been paying attention.

  • Israeli Apartheid
  • It is not an established fact, Israel is nothing like South African apartheid. 21% of Israeli citizens are Arab with full rights.

    The reason Palestineans outside of Israel are treated differently is not because their people are a different ethnicity, it's because their nation keeps trying to murder Jews and destroy Israel. They've tried violence unsuccessfully for about a century and they're all out of ideas.

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  • He did more than just, "being political opposition." He launched attacks on Israel. You know, bombing a sovereign nation, the very thing you're complaining about.

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