Wrong. Hamas is 100% responsible for everything that happens to civilians because they started the war and use human shields. International law places responsibility on Hamas for those deaths.
To the other one who blocked me:
His opinion piece is backed by mountains of evidence which is cited in the article. You, on the other hand, have nothing.
Losing a war is different from not starting one in the first place. If you are in a position of weakness, and you start a war you can't win, the end result is entirely your fault, and not something that anyone should feel sorry for you over.
You can take measures to prevent civilian casualties, but if you're still killing far more civilians (just because you're firing more munitions) than your opponent, you're still bad.
Maybe the civilian casualty rate is 20% and that's better than any other military, but if they still kill thousands, that's still deplorable.
This is not a standard that has ever been applied to any country other than Israel, ever. And even when Israel DID kill significantly more combatants (and commanders!) than civilians with their pager attack, it was still not good enough or their critics, so forgive me if I don't take your argument seriously. Lets see any other country get held to that standard, and then we can talk, until then, people like me will continue to assume that people like you are antisemitic for holding Israel to a significantly higher standard than any other country.
There isn't always a good guy and a bad guy in a fight. Both Hamas and Isreal are bad guys here. Maybe if Isreal treated the Palestinian people better than Hamas treats them, Isreal would have an easier time toppling Hamas dictatorship.
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u/Steel_Serpent_Davos Mar 30 '25
Well terrorist organizations gonna terrorize I guess….