• ???@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s very misleading how Israel and pro Israelis like to make all humane and heroic actions seem like they are not an option.

    NOT destroying the hospital was an option whether you want to send soldiers in there or not.

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      I’m not there on the ground so I can’t say or prove anything one way or another beyond the articles presented thus far. Mass media hasn’t been reliable since AI’s were able to pass the turing test last year, hell you or I could even be bots pushing an agenda.

      The reality of the situation is that the IDF is under the impression that there is access to the HAMAS tunnels under the hospital which makes the entire hospital enemy territory. They can’t enter it for fear of IED’s and they can’t leave it alone because it’s full of enemies.

      Personally I’d say implement a cordon with tanks/IFV’s and try to run crowd control, but the response back from a higher up would be ‘the ied problem’. I don’t have a real solution, I’m simply pointing out (to the OG commenter) that their idea is untenable for even T1 groups.

      I am hoping that through discussion perhaps a solution will be found, unlikely as it is, but I appreciate different views on the matter.

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        The reality is that the IDF can’t announce an area full of dying patients and doctors and journalists and refugees as that and then start shooting anyone who dares leave, and do absolutely no effort to evacuate them properly, and then offer them a tiny amount of fuel to mock their misery.

        Sorry but we are past the point of normal army operation. The only explanation that for me fits is that the goal of the IDF is to ethnically cleanse and genocide Palestinians. Sadly the ethnic cleansing part isn’t exactly a secret either thanks to Israeli document leaks, so we know that was a part of the plan all along. This is why Biden and Bibi are having this weird haggle right now about forcibly displacing Palestinians or putting them under an even smaller open air prison.

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          I take it then that you didn’t follow the majority of our actions either in history or during our engagements in afghanistan and iraq.

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            I take it you don’t know anything about me and yet decided to throw this in, not sure what it’s meant to accomplish. Make me look like I’m not informed.

            Well, joke is on you. I’m an Arab, I watched the Iraq war unfold on the news growing up, my father watched it every evening, so I’d say from a very young age I’ve been keeping up with American (aka “your”) actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, especially since they often directly affect life in Jordan (which is where my parents live). Really helps when you speak the language.

            So now, are you going to make a real point or just point out things that you assume I don’t know shit about?

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              I dropped facts that can be easily verified and compared against other facts, you drop an “I’m arab of course I’d know you americunt” But pretending like you ‘know’ all of it simply because you grew up near it? Hilarious.

              Especially given your prior responses which clearly present you either don’t know what you’re talking about or are being disingenuous in order to muddy the discussion.