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Should Israel Go Into Gaza to Remove Hamas?

 
 
gollum
 
Sun 31 Mar, 2024 03:54 pm
Many people are asking Israel not to go into Rafah to remove the remaining Hamas terrorists.

What is their alternative? Allow Hamas to have many more October 7's, which they intend to do?
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jespah
 
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Sun 31 Mar, 2024 06:57 pm
@gollum,
It's problematic, seeing as Hamas uses civilians as human shields.
The Anointed
 
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Mon 1 Apr, 2024 04:30 pm
@jespah,
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It's problematic, seeing as Hamas uses civilians as human shields.


When Hamas killed 1,200 Jews and took 240 captives, undoubtedly many of those civilians were dancing in the streets as they did when 2,966 innocent people were killed in the Twin Tower terrorist attack, indeed after the recent Hamas attack, we saw on TV, many Palestinians immigrants rejoicing in the streets of their adopted countries.
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Glennn
 
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Tue 2 Apr, 2024 06:02 am
@jespah,
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It's problematic, seeing as Hamas uses civilians as human shields.

Hmm. Are you really unaware that the IDF uses Palestinians as human shields? I don't know why certain people look past Israel's illegal occupation, their illegal settlements, and their throwing of kids into prison without charge where adults abuse them.

I'll spare you the videos and the citing of International law that condemns Israel's illegal occupation, their abuse of kids in prison by adults, and their illegal settlements since you'd have to be living under a rock to not know about all of it.

However, if you have anything to refute what I've told you here, start with Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine, and we'll move on from there.
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Glennn
 
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Tue 2 Apr, 2024 06:33 am
In related news, biden has decided that he hates genocide so much that he's going to send nutanyahoo 1800 more MK-84, two-thousand pound bunker-buster bombs, and 500 MK-82 bombs. Most everyone in the world knows enough to call that kind of aiding and abetting of a war criminal as, well, AIDING AND ABETTING a war criminal!
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izzythepush
 
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Tue 2 Apr, 2024 09:26 am
The genocide needs to stop, over 30,000 Palestinians butchered by the IDF, the vast majority being womsn and children.

The IDF targetted an aid convoy today which was clearly marked, murdering British, Australian, Polish and Palestinian aid workers.

IDF snipers are deliberately targetting Palestinian children.

The only solution is a viable Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank, the occupation needs to end.
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izzythepush
 
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Tue 2 Apr, 2024 09:28 am
All the Hamas leadership grew up in refugee camps.

That's the cause, right there.
The Anointed
 
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Tue 2 Apr, 2024 04:57 pm
@izzythepush,
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All the Hamas leadership grew up in refugee camps.


Have you asked why they grew up in refugee camps?

Following the 1948 Arab Israeli war Egypt administered the newly formed Gaza Strip. Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, with his military leader Mohammed Deif, the mastermind of the 7 October attack, both grew up in the Khan Younis refugee camp, where Sinwar was born in 1962 while Gaza was still under Egyptian administration.

It was captured by Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967. Between 1994 and 1999, Israel transferred security and civilian responsibility for much of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority.

You do know the full history of the Six Day war, don't you Izzy?

https://www.britannica.com/event/Six-Day-War
Glennn
 
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Tue 2 Apr, 2024 05:56 pm
@The Anointed,
Yeah but they're illegal occupiers who build illegal settlements in contravention of International law--among many other things. They illegally put kids into prison without charges. You see a pattern there? Boy I know I sure do. And the real rub is that THEY SHOULDN'T BE THERE! And we like to refer to them as a democracy. Yeah!

And right now they're starving children and babies as per the old testament god's holy edict parroted by nutanyahoo which instructs the people of light (him and his ilk) to utterly wipe out the people of darkness (innocent human beings).

The question is: at what point do we confront a confirmed religious nutter bent on the destruction of the last of the Amalekites (that's innocent human beings to you and me)? What is it that endears humanity to that kind of thing?

Six day war. I recall. Isn't that when Israel decided to deliberately attack and destroy the USS Liberty and crew, but failed? It certainly wasn't from a lack of trying. That didn't do anything to endear anyone to Israel either, did it?
The Anointed
 
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Tue 2 Apr, 2024 06:56 pm
@Glennn,
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Yeah but they're illegal occupiers who build illegal settlements--among other things--in contravention of International law


No mate, the ISRAELIS occupied that land from 15,000 B.C., apart from the times they were removed by superior forces such as the Persians under Nebuchadnezzar and other nations, for a while and then right up until 70 A. D., when they were removed by the Romans, after which, the Palestinian's moved in again.

The reason why God sent the descendants of Shem into the land of the firstborn son of Noah, Ham/Egypt, where they interbred with the descendants of Ham the firstborn for 215 years before God killed all the first born Egyptians, after which he called his son out of Egypt, in who was the spirit of Firstborn, was because of what Canaan, the son of Ham and youngest descendant of Noah had done to him while he lay naked in his tent in a drunken stupor;

Genesis 9: 24; When Noah sobered up and learnt what his youngest descendant had done to him, he cursed Canaan and blessed his second son Shem, on who, he then bestowed the blessing of first born.

Jubilees 7: 13; And Ham knew that his father had cursed his younger son, and he was displeased that he had cursed his son. and he parted from his father, he and his sons with him, Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. And he built for himself a city and called its name after the name of his wife Ne’elatama’uk.

The Book of Jubilees Chapter 8: When Noah divided the Land among his three sons, Shem received the middle portion, from the delta of the river of Egypt, north to Lebanon and east to India, while Ham received the land of Africa to the south, and Japheth received the land to the north of Lebanon, which according to the book of Jubilees 8: 30; It is said that the Land of Japheth included the five great islands and a great land in the north. But it is cold, and the land of Ham is Hot, and the land of Shem (The middle son) is neither hot nor cold, but it is of blended cold and heat.

The sons of Noah then divided their portion of land among their sons, and it is written in Jubilees 9: 14; “And thus the sons of Noah divided unto their sons in the presence of Noah their father, and he bound them all by an oath, imprecating a curse on everyone who sought to seize the portion that had not fallen to him by lot. And they all said, ‘So be it; so be it,’ for themselves and for their sons forever throughout their generations til the day of judgement, etc.”

Then in chapter 10: 29; we read; “And Canaan saw the land of Lebanon to the river Egypt, that it was very good, and he went not into the land of his inheritance to the west (That is to) the sea, and he dwelt in the land of Lebanon, eastward and westward from the border of the Jordan and from the border of the sea. And Ham his father, and Cush and Mizraim, his brothers said unto him: ‘Thou hast settled in a land which is not thine, and which did not fall to us by lot: do not do so; for if thou dost do so, thou and thy sons will fall in the land and be accursed through sedition; for by sedition ye have settled; and by sedition will thy children fall, and thou shalt be rooted out forever, etc.

And when in 15,000 B. C., they claimed their rightful inheritance, See Judges' 3, 1-2; So the Lord left some nations in the land to test the Israelites who had not been through the wars in Canaan.
He did this only in order to teach each generation of Israelites about war, especially those who had never been in battle before.
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The Anointed
 
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Tue 2 Apr, 2024 09:03 pm
@Glennn,
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Six day war. I recall. Isn't that when Israel decided to deliberately attack and destroy the USS Liberty and crew,



The six day war was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states from 5 to 10 June 1967, It was four days into the war, on June 8, 1967, that there was an Israeli attack on the American spy ship the USS Liberty, So we know that had nothing to do with instigating the war.

The road to war was paved by the growing tension in the area since 1963 over the issue of exploiting the waters of the Jordan River and the Kineret Lake. This led to an escalation of military clashes initiated by Syria, and to an increase of Palestinian terror attacks against Israel encouraged by Arab states, particularly Syria.

The immediate causes for the war included a series of escalating steps taken by the Arabs: the concluding of a Syrian-Egyptian military pact to which Jordan and Iraq later joined, the expulsion of the UN Emergency Force (UNEF) from the Sinai Peninsula and the concentration of Egyptian forces there, and finally the closure by Egypt of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, constituting a casus belli for Israel.

When Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon moved their forces toward the Israeli border, Israel mobilized its reserve forces, and launched a diplomatic campaign to win international support to end the Egyptian blockade of Israeli shipping through the Straits of Tiran.

When this failed, and in reaction to Arab threats of wiping Israel out, the war began with an Israeli pre-emptive aerial strike on 5 June 1967. It ended on 10 June 1967 with Israel's victory.

When in 15,000 B. C., the Israelites claimed their rightful inheritance, See Judges 3, 1-2; So the Lord left some nations in the land to test the Israelites who had not been through the wars in Canaan.

He did this only in order to teach each generation of Israelites about war, especially those who had never been in battle before
The Anointed
 
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Wed 3 Apr, 2024 02:24 am
@The Anointed,
EDIT previous post. 1,500 B.C.
izzythepush
 
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Wed 3 Apr, 2024 02:51 am
@The Anointed,
I do.

You're from a country that abuses its own indigenous population so I can see why you would side with the colonialists.

Your fondness for racist jokes demonstrates a profound dislike of non white people.
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izzythepush
 
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Wed 3 Apr, 2024 04:12 am
@The Anointed,
You like to cherrypick facts.

I seenomention of the King David hotel bombings or the favoured treatment of Nazi John Vorster.

I'm not surprised that you would welcome terrorist attacks against British soldiers and Australian aid workers who committed the terrible crime of trying to feed children.
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izzythepush
 
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Wed 3 Apr, 2024 04:14 am
@The Anointed,
How long have the Aboriginees lived in Australia?

What's your justification for exterminating them?
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izzythepush
 
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Wed 3 Apr, 2024 05:01 am
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Glennn
 
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Wed 3 Apr, 2024 05:41 am
@The Anointed,
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No mate, the ISRAELIS occupied that land from 15,000 B.C., apart from the times they were removed by superior forces such as the Persians under Nebuchadnezzar and other nations, for a while and then right up until 70 A. D., when they were removed by the Romans, after which, the Palestinian's moved in again.

Thank you for demonstrating the nature of your reasoning. Your religious mindset causes you to express your ingrained prejudice and your apparent hatred for even Palestinian kids and babies besides all the other innocent people. You appear to be cut from the same cloth as nutanyahoo in that regard.

Mate, this is 2024. You can't use the bible as a land deed. I can't believe I have to tell someone such a thing at this point in time. I sincerely hope that your stuck in time problem here doesn't cause you to advocate for Stoning people to death. You are against that kind of thing, right?

Now, let's start with something everyone understands: Throwing kids into prison without charge. Please offer a justification for that kind of inhumane, undemocratic obscenity.
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izzythepush
 
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Wed 3 Apr, 2024 09:45 am
The IDF's use of Lavender AI scotches claims of human shields.

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‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets
Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants

The Israeli military’s bombing campaign in Gaza used a previously undisclosed AI-powered database that at one stage identified 37,000 potential targets based on their apparent links to Hamas, according to intelligence sources involved in the war.

In addition to talking about their use of the AI system, called Lavender, the intelligence sources claim that Israeli military officials permitted large numbers of Palestinian civilians to be killed, particularly during the early weeks and months of the conflict.

Their unusually candid testimony provides a rare glimpse into the first-hand experiences of Israeli intelligence officials who have been using machine-learning systems to help identify targets during the six-month war.

Israel’s use of powerful AI systems in its war on Hamas has entered uncharted territory for advanced warfare, raising a host of legal and moral questions, and transforming the relationship between military personnel and machines.

“This is unparalleled, in my memory,” said one intelligence officer who used Lavender, adding that they had more faith in a “statistical mechanism” than a grieving soldier. “Everyone there, including me, lost people on October 7. The machine did it coldly. And that made it easier.”

Another Lavender user questioned whether humans’ role in the selection process was meaningful. “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do dozens of them every day. I had zero added-value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval. It saved a lot of time.”

The testimony from the six intelligence officers, all who have been involved in using AI systems to identify Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) targets in the war, was given to the journalist Yuval Abraham for a report published by the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call.

Their accounts were shared exclusively with the Guardian in advance of publication. All six said that Lavender had played a central role in the war, processing masses of data to rapidly identify potential “junior” operatives to target. Four of the sources said that, at one stage early in the war, Lavender listed as many as 37,000 Palestinian men who had been linked by the AI system to Hamas or PIJ.

Lavender was developed by the Israel Defense Forces’ elite intelligence division, Unit 8200, which is comparable to the US’s National Security Agency or GCHQ in the UK.

Several of the sources described how, for certain categories of targets, the IDF applied pre-authorised allowances for the estimated number of civilians who could be killed before a strike was authorised.

Two sources said that during the early weeks of the war they were permitted to kill 15 or 20 civilians during airstrikes on low-ranking militants. Attacks on such targets were typically carried out using unguided munitions known as “dumb bombs”, the sources said, destroying entire homes and killing all their occupants.

“You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people – it’s very expensive for the country and there’s a shortage [of those bombs],” one intelligence officer said. Another said the principal question they were faced with was whether the “collateral damage” to civilians allowed for an attack.

“Because we usually carried out the attacks with dumb bombs, and that meant literally dropping the whole house on its occupants. But even if an attack is averted, you don’t care – you immediately move on to the next target. Because of the system, the targets never end. You have another 36,000 waiting.”

According to conflict experts, if Israel has been using dumb bombs to flatten the homes of thousands of Palestinians who were linked, with the assistance of AI, to militant groups in Gaza, that could help explain the shockingly high death toll in the war.

The health ministry in the Hamas-run territory says 32,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict in the past six months. UN data shows that in the first month of the war alone, 1,340 families suffered multiple losses, with 312 families losing more than 10 members.

Responding to the publication of the testimonies in +972 and Local Call, the IDF said in a statement that its operations were carried out in accordance with the rules of proportionality under international law. It said dumb bombs are “standard weaponry” that are used by IDF pilots in a manner that ensures “a high level of precision”.

The statement described Lavender as a database used “to cross-reference intelligence sources, in order to produce up-to-date layers of information on the military operatives of terrorist organisations. This is not a list of confirmed military operatives eligible to attack.

“The IDF does not use an artificial intelligence system that identifies terrorist operatives or tries to predict whether a person is a terrorist,” it added. “Information systems are merely tools for analysts in the target identification process.”

Lavender created a database of tens of thousands of individuals
In earlier military operations conducted by the IDF, producing human targets was often a more labour-intensive process. Multiple sources who described target development in previous wars to the Guardian, said the decision to “incriminate” an individual, or identify them as a legitimate target, would be discussed and then signed off by a legal adviser.

In the weeks and months after 7 October, this model for approving strikes on human targets was dramatically accelerated, according to the sources. As the IDF’s bombardment of Gaza intensified, they said, commanders demanded a continuous pipeline of targets.

“We were constantly being pressured: ‘Bring us more targets.’ They really shouted at us,” said one intelligence officer. “We were told: now we have to **** up Hamas, no matter what the cost. Whatever you can, you bomb.”

To meet this demand, the IDF came to rely heavily on Lavender to generate a database of individuals judged to have the characteristics of a PIJ or Hamas militant.

Details about the specific kinds of data used to train Lavender’s algorithm, or how the programme reached its conclusions, are not included in the accounts published by +972 or Local Call. However, the sources said that during the first few weeks of the war, Unit 8200 refined Lavender’s algorithm and tweaked its search parameters.

After randomly sampling and cross-checking its predictions, the unit concluded Lavender had achieved a 90% accuracy rate, the sources said, leading the IDF to approve its sweeping use as a target recommendation tool.

Lavender created a database of tens of thousands of individuals who were marked as predominantly low-ranking members of Hamas’s military wing, they added. This was used alongside another AI-based decision support system, called the Gospel, which recommended buildings and structures as targets rather than individuals.

The accounts include first-hand testimony of how intelligence officers worked with Lavender and how the reach of its dragnet could be adjusted. “At its peak, the system managed to generate 37,000 people as potential human targets,” one of the sources said. “But the numbers changed all the time, because it depends on where you set the bar of what a Hamas operative is.”

They added: “There were times when a Hamas operative was defined more broadly, and then the machine started bringing us all kinds of civil defence personnel, police officers, on whom it would be a shame to waste bombs. They help the Hamas government, but they don’t really endanger soldiers.”

Before the war, US and Israeli estimated membership of Hamas’s military wing at approximately 25-30,000 people.

In the weeks after the Hamas-led 7 October assault on southern Israel, in which Palestinian militants killed nearly 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped about 240 people, the sources said there was a decision to treat Palestinian men linked to Hamas’s military wing as potential targets, regardless of their rank or importance.

The IDF’s targeting processes in the most intensive phase of the bombardment were also relaxed, they said. “There was a completely permissive policy regarding the casualties of [bombing] operations,” one source said. “A policy so permissive that in my opinion it had an element of revenge.”

Another source, who justified the use of Lavender to help identify low-ranking targets, said that “when it comes to a junior militant, you don’t want to invest manpower and time in it”. They said that in wartime there was insufficient time to carefully “incriminate every target”.

“So you’re willing to take the margin of error of using artificial intelligence, risking collateral damage and civilians dying, and risking attacking by mistake, and to live with it,” they added.

‘It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home’
The testimonies published by +972 and Local Call may explain how such a western military with such advanced capabilities, with weapons that can conduct highly surgical strikes, has conducted a war with such a vast human toll.

When it came to targeting low-ranking Hamas and PIJ suspects, they said, the preference was to attack when they were believed to be at home. “We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,” one said. “It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”

Such a strategy risked higher numbers of civilian casualties, and the sources said the IDF imposed pre-authorised limits on the number of civilians it deemed acceptable to kill in a strike aimed at a single Hamas militant. The ratio was said to have changed over time, and varied according to the seniority of the target.

According to +972 and Local Call, the IDF judged it permissible to kill more than 100 civilians in attacks on a top-ranking Hamas officials. “We had a calculation for how many [civilians could be killed] for the brigade commander, how many [civilians] for a battalion commander, and so on,” one source said.

“There were regulations, but they were just very lenient,” another added. “We’ve killed people with collateral damage in the high double digits, if not low triple digits. These are things that haven’t happened before.” There appears to have been significant fluctuations in the figure that military commanders would tolerate at different stages of the war.

One source said that the limit on permitted civilian casualties “went up and down” over time, and at one point was as low as five. During the first week of the conflict, the source said, permission was given to kill 15 non-combatants to take out junior militants in Gaza. However, they said estimates of civilian casualties were imprecise, as it was not possible to know definitively how many people were in a building.

Another intelligence officer said that more recently in the conflict, the rate of permitted collateral damage was brought down again. But at one stage earlier in the war they were authorised to kill up to “20 uninvolved civilians” for a single operative, regardless of their rank, military importance, or age.

“It’s not just that you can kill any person who is a Hamas soldier, which is clearly permitted and legitimate in terms of international law,” they said. “But they directly tell you: ‘You are allowed to kill them along with many civilians.’ … In practice, the proportionality criterion did not exist.”

The IDF statement said its procedures “require conducting an individual assessment of the anticipated military advantage and collateral damage expected … The IDF does not carry out strikes when the expected collateral damage from the strike is excessive in relation to the military advantage.” It added: “The IDF outright rejects the claim regarding any policy to kill tens of thousands of people in their homes.”

Experts in international humanitarian law who spoke to the Guardian expressed alarm at accounts of the IDF accepting and pre-authorising collateral damage ratios as high as 20 civilians, particularly for lower-ranking militants. They said militaries must assess proportionality for each individual strike.

An international law expert at the US state department said they had “never remotely heard of a one to 15 ratio being deemed acceptable, especially for lower-level combatants. There’s a lot of leeway, but that strikes me as extreme”.

Sarah Harrison, a former lawyer at the US Department of Defense, now an analyst at Crisis Group, said: “While there may be certain occasions where 15 collateral civilian deaths could be proportionate, there are other times where it definitely wouldn’t be. You can’t just set a tolerable number for a category of targets and say that it’ll be lawfully proportionate in each case.”

Whatever the legal or moral justification for Israel’s bombing strategy, some of its intelligence officers appear now to be questioning the approach set by their commanders. “No one thought about what to do afterward, when the war is over, or how it will be possible to live in Gaza,” one said.

Another said that after the 7 October attacks by Hamas, the atmosphere in the IDF was “painful and vindictive”. “There was a dissonance: on the one hand, people here were frustrated that we were not attacking enough. On the other hand, you see at the end of the day that another thousand Gazans have died, most of them civilians.”


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

The IDF's complete disregard for human life shows alleged human shields don't work. If the IDF's rules of engagement allow for the killing of 15-20 civilians in order to kill just one low ranking member of Hamas then human shields are pointless. It's clear the IDF will keep on killing until there's no more Palestinians left unless pressure is put on them to stop.
The Anointed
 
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Wed 3 Apr, 2024 03:58 pm
@izzythepush,
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The IDF's complete disregard for human life shows alleged human shields don't work.


The complete disregard for human life by the Hamas terrorists who use their civilian supporters as human shields cannot be allowed to continue to work.
Of course there are innocent civilian casualties in every war.

I wonder what the number of civilian casualties would be, if recorded by a reliable source apart from the Hamas terrorist propaganda machine.
Glennn
 
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Wed 3 Apr, 2024 04:00 pm
biden appears to have about as much concern for Palestinians in Gaza as nutanyahoo does. There is no reason for him to kowtow to a religious nutter engaged in genocide. He should be enforcing the rolling of aid-trucks in order to stop the deliberate starvation of innocent people. His subservience to the war criminal looks so cowardly and un American that one has to wonder where his loyalties really lie.

Hard to believe that anyone can overlook that kind of inhumane non-response to the murder and starvation of innocent people, and then reward the guy by voting for him. But I guess that in some peoples' eyes he just can do no wrong.

Didn't he say he was a zionist? Isn't nunanyahoo a zionist, too?
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