You can eradicate terrorist groups. ISIS got hunted down and killed. Killing the vile beliefs that caused that terrorist group is more difficult.
Israel at war
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But it's NOT a collective punishment.
They're just inevitable collateral damage because HAMAS deliberately locates its military installations in civilian areas to get a reaction from people like you when the IDF comes after those military installations.
ISIS still exists, but its a shadow of its former self. And thats the ultimate goal of Israel, to reduce Hamas to the point where it no longer poses any major threat to Israelis
They were in Gaza because they were pushing back Egyptian army.
Nobody wants this leper colony.
But it IS an appropriate comparison because Germany - like HAMAS - still had the ability to attack and injure the Allied powers until it was finally conquered. Exact same parallel.
It's not collective punishment. Let me explain to you what collective punishment would look like.
The IDF over runs Gaza and kills all the HAMAS guys who they can find. They then say to the Gazan civilian population: "We're going to destroy 10% of the remaining housing in Gaza to teach you a hard lesson."
That's NOT what the IDF's stated intentions are.
Collateral damage is unavoidable damage.
How can the IDF "make the choice" not to bomb Gaza City when HAMAS has occupied and fortified it??..... It's not possible.
How are they supposed to neutralize HAMAS without actually going in and destroying its military installations and killing its guys??..... It's not possible.
There is no other way. HAMAS has deliberately sentenced many civilian Gazans to death. Simply to get guys like you angry. That's the HAMAS play here. It's deliberate. Your reaction is pre planned. YOU are the
"military goal" of the HAMAS operation.
Looks like Hezbollah may be giving Israel a preview of its own Gaza.
I call bullshit. Provide proof or stop lying. And not what some random Israeli who lost relatives or friends have said
No. What you write is just simply wrong.
No. Re read what I wrote more carefully. You're not absorbing the distinctions that I am drawing for you.
Hezbollah better watch its step. The IDF is big enough to eat HAMAS and Hezbollah both for breakfast.
You have NO IDEA what the IDF commanders consider, what their intel is and how feasible it is to do any of the imaginary military operations that you suggest. It's my opinion that a slow house-by-house assault is probably the only way this could be done.
These friends?
Or these friends?
So you're saying that Hamas has outsmarted Israel?
And you think Israel is so stupid they went genocidal without knowing what it will do to them longterm?
What we do know is that they've killed 10,000 people.
Mostly women and children.
Either they're really fucking evil or they are the worst army in the world.
Which do you think?
Also legally wrong, mandrill.
For a lawyer you seem to be making bold and wrong legal statements a lot about Israel and Palestine.
There is no end date on refugee status.
Israel has been refusing to honour UN resolutions calling for them to honour the Right of Return for half a century, but that doesn't mean the claims aren't still ongoing.
Your Palestinian friends holding the hostages
The blockade was collective punishment.
A siege where you block all food, water and power is collective punishment.
Those are war crimes and very clear examples, mandrill.
Why would you support war crimes by Israel if you're trying to claim its about war crimes or 'terrorism'?
My Palestinian friends live here, though they've lost lots of family over the last few weeks.
Why don't you call your Israeli friends and get them to stop the genocide?
Are they too busy calling to nuke Gaza?
