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⁠ @George-rj4fj that’s just racist. There are red haired and blonde Palestinians as well. You can always spot one or two here and there in some footage.
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@solschwarz5169 don’t say “I would say” go research and pull up the numbers.
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@albertobenevenuto77 you’re not an ancap, you just hate taxes. An ancap would be against statism and state monopoly on power and for individualism. You still see the world in a collectivist statist view.
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@kerriwilson7732 people were saying that about the IRA as well. Negotiations work. People said that about Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, and guess what? In all these cases, war, war, and more war did not work.
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Just like how that sniper “accidentally” sniped a girl and her grandma taking refuge in a church.
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⁠⁠ @Lanatab ok, now you’re making up a movie script. There was nothing but those 3 waving a flag, or they wouldn’t be out of there was gunfire. And they weren’t running towards, they were standing tens of meters away.
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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @Lanatab wtf, you’re over here in deep apologetics for the IDF. The IDF has always broken these, but always with apologetics and PR attached to fool people. Here are some basic ones: - The IDF failed to properly distinguish between combatants and civilians, and since the individuals waving the white flag were non-combatants, this is a violation of the Principle of Distinction. - The use of force was disproportionate to the perceived threat that any shirtless white-flag waving men could pose. That’s called Excessive Use of Force. - Shooting an individual who had surrendered by waving a white flag and sought help is a violation of the principle of not harming those who never or are no longer taking part in the hostilities.
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@solschwarz5169 you’re pulling these numbers out of nowhere. The ratio in WW2 is around 2:5 and 2:7, or 1:3 on average. In WW2, there were around 50-55 million civilian casualties, and 16-20 million military personnel casualties. Even if we accept this figure of 2/3 were civilians, which is ridiculous because it simply takes out women and children from the total and claims all men killed were combatants, that ratio is higher than the average civilian death toll in conflicts around the world during the 20th century. This ratio of civilian deaths is also higher than in past Israeli campaigns in Gaza, from 2012 to 2022. In fact, in the previous decade, around 5,100 civilian casualties were reported, and in the current conflict, this has been way surpassed. Also, the Ministry of Health in Gaza repeatedly releases reports of the names, ages, addresses, and even ID numbers of those that perished so far.
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@Lanatab Exactly. They were not "running towards" the soldiers. Tens of meters away is pretty far. Also, guess what, the IDF is where Western Media, often with PR edits, gets all its information while Israeli media gets it uncensored. Israeli media gave a more detailed account. The mass circulation daily Yediot Ahronot said that according to an investigation into the incident, a sniper identified the hostages as suspects when they emerged, despite them not being armed, and shot two of the three. Soldiers followed the third when he ran into the building and hid, shouting at him to come out, and at least one soldier shot him when he emerged from a staircase, Yediot Ahronot said. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz gave a similar account based on a preliminary investigation, saying the soldiers who followed the third hostage believed he was a Hamas member trying to pull them into a trap.
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