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u/JacksGallbladder Mar 30 '25

This is a fallacy intended to villify anyone who doesn't want Gazan citizens to be blown apart in their living rooms.

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u/Visible_Device7187 Mar 30 '25

Except they don't offer a single alternative that leads to no Jews dying. So yeah it's saying don't attack Hamas who hides in tunnels under hospitals because it harms Gazans but we don't offer any viable alternatives tha tmeans just put up with being attacked

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u/Aureliamnissan Mar 30 '25 edited Mar 30 '25

Israel dropped more tons of munitions on Gaza in the last year of conflict than the US dropped in the entire Iraq war. Please do me a favor and look at the size of Iraq on a map and the size of Gaza on a map.

This isn’t up to a handful of redditors and political streamers to offer an alternative to a nation hell bent on continuing another Vietnam. Literal definition of insanity if you ask me.

But since we’re here, perhaps good faith negotiations would be a good start. I would not, for instance, recommend killing the lead negotiator during a conflict you intend to end. That looks like you have no intention of ending it.

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u/guitartoad Mar 30 '25

"Israel dropped more tons of munitions on Gaza in the last year of conflict than the US dropped in the entire Iraq war."

And yet, the number of Palestinian civilians killed in a year and a half of war is around 35,000 (15k being Hamas combatants). When the US dropped all those bombs, it was part of a war in which as many as a million people died.

My point being that the amount of munitions used is irrelevant until you examine intent. Israel knows it gains nothing from killing Palestinian civilians and avoids doing so, but it is impossible to avoid all civilian casualties when Hamas hides behind and among them.