• sab@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s easy to say this now, not so obvious a week ago.

    Assuming you’re right - why the hell was the IDF so goddamn unprepared?

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      1 year ago

      This has been 75 years in the making. It was obvious a week ago, a year ago and a decade ago.

      My guess is that IDF was not unprepared. They knew - politics took the wheel and they just ignored all the warnings.

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      1 year ago

      Why should I know that? I’m not the care taker of Israel. They should not have left Gaza unwatched and allowed terrorists to cross into Israel. And her parents should not have sent a child into a Hamas lead city.

      Hamas showed once again that they are terrorists who want Israel gone and the people of Gaza have to suffer for it because no one cared for removing Hamas or stopping them before they once again attacked Israel.

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        1 year ago

        There are terrorists on both sides. It’s easy for you to preach from your high horse. When was the last time you felt in danger of dying? What about the last time you didn’t have clean water and food? Not being allowed to see your lover ones?

        You fucking disconnected hypocrite.

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          It’s also very easy for you to demand that the people of Israel should just accept getting attacked by Hamas once in a while while everyone pretends it’s alright that Gaza is governed by terrorists who have made it their official goal to genocide the Jews. This conflict can only be solved with cooperation but that is not possible with Hamas.

          You fucking disconnected hypocrite.

          That does not make any sense but you can stuff that in your ass anyways.

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            1 year ago

            How did Hamas get to be in power in Gaza? What about the people of Gaza? You don’t hear anyone getting butthurt when people in Gaza arr routinely killed and starved to death. You don’t hear it in the news.

            Why would people in Gaza want to subject themselves to this death and destruction?

            Pretending that somehow the lives of jewish people are more valuable that the lives of Palestinians is what makes you a hypocrite.

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              1 year ago

              How did Hamas get to be in power in Gaza? What about the people of Gaza? You don’t hear anyone getting butthurt when people in Gaza arr routinely killed and starved to death. You don’t hear it in the news.

              Why would people in Gaza want to subject themselves to this death and destruction?

              Yes how come no one gives a shit about Hamas being in power there, causing nothing but death and misery for everyone in the area? Now that Israel got hit so hard that they decided to end Hamas in the most destructive way people suddenly care for the people living there.

              Pretending that somehow the lives of jewish people are more valuable that the lives of Palestinians is what makes you a hypocrite.

              I’m sorry if I made it look like I care more for one faction than the other, I honestly don’t think the lives of the people of Gaza are worth less than those living in Israel. It is a horrible thing that Israel sees no other way to fight against Hamas but to hit Gaza harder and harder. Do you have a proposition on how Israel should react to the terrorist attack?

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                1 year ago

                You need to understand that people in Gaza are desperate. Israel is not going to do the right thing. They have been committing war crimes for 75 years. Hamas is not going to do the right thing.

                IMHO there need to be an outside peace keeping mission to mitigate this. Anything else is going to end up with a blood bath.

                We think it’s bad now? Wait until it escalates and the whole region blows up. What will Israel do when gets attacked by Hezbollah? How will Iran and Egypt react to what they see as meddling in the middle east by western powers? Europe is already not playing nice with Israel. US is going to need to soften their stance (and they have started to do already).

                Israel attacking Gaza and blocking food and water (ie genocide) is as dumb as Hamas attacking Israel in the first place. This is what happens when you put political interest in front of what is good for your own people.

                I am highly distressed by the fact that people are fucking dying as we speak and everyone seems to have one weird trick without understanding any history and without factoring in the context in tge region.

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                  Do you have an idea as to what “the right thing” for Israel to do now is? It is easy to demand they stop attacking Gaza but I never read any proposals of what to do instead but “suck it up”. I think the only way to stop this is a trustworthy player in the region that can credibly assure Israel that they would help them remove Hamas from Gaza so they stop the destruction.

                  The people in Israel are also desperate. They left Hamas to their own devices and were hit with the largest attack in decades. Now they want Hamas gone - at any cost. The international community left them alone with the problem and now they want to solve it to prevent this from ever happening again. TBH I don’t dare to give advice to any side here any advice on what they should do. It’s a catastrophe that Hamas wanted and received. Loads and loads of people that receive no help and are left to die. There are many “should have” and “could have” to be said but what do they matter now?

                  A side note regarding escalation, if you care for my opinion on this:
                  I don’t think that Iran or Egypt will join any escalation by Hezbollah or Fatah. Russia is stretched thin anyways, Egypt gives 0 shit about Palestine and Iran will get completely dismantled by the US alone. Europe will not be a player in the region, we are completely busy with Ukraine and we likely cannot contribute anything that Israel needs (except ammunition, I guess). It will be a complete disaster of death and destruction for the region that no one wants - but I think Israel and the US are ready to fight it if anyone wants to escalate.