Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Democracy Now!"
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@Ecaea - “indiscriminate bombing regardless”
Actually, that is Hamas’s plan. They launch rockets at civilian sites, by the thousands! (That is why Hamas is referred to as a terrorist organization.)
On the other hand, we know that Israel tracks where the rockets are launched from, they have maps, then they target the launch locations. If those launch locations happen to be next to civilian infrastructure, which we know happens, that infrastructure is negatively impacted.
“In the history of every single war, nobody planned to mix…”
Nope, happened all the time.
“we NEVER HAD ANY KIND OF SOLUTIONS to this kind of issues?”
Sure we did, it is called the Geneva Convention.
When combatants mix with civilian attire & perform attacks, they are unlawful combatants, and they are not give the same protections of civilians or military personnel. We colloquially call them terrorists.
When terrorists launch attacks, disguising themselves as civilians, regarding infrastructure, that infrastructure becomes legitimate targets in war, and there is no protection.
“Did you not read what Israel had in its plan for war?”
I saw the published maps with red dots on various rocket launch sites, so yep… we knew exactly where they were going to bomb, because they knew where the missiles are being loaded & launched from.
“They planned to bomb Gaza first, before sending in the troops”
They better bomb those locations where rockets were being repeatedly launched, before sending in soldiers, since they would be more likely to hit the terrorists who were launching missiles from those civilian sites, therefore eliminating many of them and saving civilian lives.
“indeed seem themselves as superior over…”
As I read the Hamas charter, it is pretty clear who considers themselves superior. The opening section has:
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it"
During WW2, this type of behavior was called Islamic Fascism, and they aligned with the losing side of Hitler. These are the dregs of survivors, many of the European Muslim fighters under Hitler were imported into Palestine, as mercenaries, to destroy Israel, the surrounding Arab nations destroyed Palestine, kept them from standing up a nation, but could not destroy Israel.
It is time to stand up a peaceful Palestine, so their people can live normal lives, instead of allowing them to be treated like the children extracted from the Balkans (who became Janissaries) to be weaponized slave armies, or the slave armies of Persia which were extracted from the Caucuses.
This is the 21st Century, this has to come to an end.
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“Those calling for a cease fire are”… anti-Palestinian.
There was apparently no way for Palestinians in Gaza to get out from under the yoke of Hamas, whose leaders are billionaires, illegally siphoning the aid dollars, living lives of luxury outside of Gaza, and causing the civilians to live in horrible conditions. This is Gaza’s Palestinian’s first chance, in over 15 years, to be freed from this regime.
“why is USA giving aid to…”
Because the Iranian supported Hamas terrorist organization kidnapped Americans and Biden is too cowardly to go in after the kidnapped Americans with US soldiers, the same way Carter was too cowardly to go after kidnapped Americans in Iran with US soldiers.
“Why is the USA aiding a government that does not respect the rules of war?”
The US is not aiding the Hamas government, who was legitimate for a little while until they threw opposition off of buildings & canceled future elections. Hamas unilaterally killed American civilians in Israel, unilaterally kidnapped American civilians into Gaza, placed weapons of war in civilian infrastructure in Gaza. These actions all violate the Geneva Convention. The US is working through legitimate governments who did not violate the rules of war.
“Why are we suppressing voices in this country”
We all see protests for Palestine.
We all see protests for Israel.
The question is: where are the protests for the kidnapped Americans?
444 days of captivity for Americans prisoners under Carter was unbearable.
Americans seem prepared for a third party nation to level Gaza and lose those Americans, so as not to live through 444 days of captivity, so Biden does not look like Carter.
Americans seem to be more ready to mourn for the dead than mourn for living captives & lose political capital for another Democrat President.
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The irony of a Conservative leaning Roman Catholic promoting the position of a jihadist organization, whose goal it is to establish an Islamic State over the land between Syria & Egypt.
The 1988 charters opens with:
Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).
And then goes on to define how to establish their Islamic Caliphate, with the first article:
“The Movement's programme is Islam. From it, it draws its ideas, ways of thinking and understanding of the universe, life and man. It resorts to it for judgement in all its conduct, and it is inspired by it for guidance of its steps.”
Article 7 continues in the written text:
The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).
There was a previous time in history when an Islamic Caliphate was established in the region, non-Muslims were expelled, the Roman Catholic Pope offered to pay the Jizya tax for safe passage for pilgrimages, the entrance of Catholic Pilgrims were denied, and The Crusades begun. They only ended when Richard The Lionhearted was able to extract guaranteed safety for pilgrims into the Holy Land.
Sometimes, this stuff amazes me.
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