The Israeli army fired artillery shells containing white phosphorus, an incendiary weapon, in military operations along Lebanon’s southern border between 10 and 16 October 2023.

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    11 months ago

    Wow you can’t just bring up some made up noname nonsense like the UN, they’re antisemitic terrorists!

    I only trust real sources like Israeli newspapers.

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      11 months ago

      There UN source simply defines them at war, not genocide. Name a war that did not produce suffering. The UN source does not show that they are intentionally targeting a people, just that they are suffering as they target the elected Hamas government.

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        11 months ago

        Elected how many years ago? What was the average age in Gaza, again?

        If we want to talk about elected governments, the genocidal Israeli government has much more legitimacy in claiming it represents it’s constituents.

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          11 months ago

          Literally no one is questioning Israel’s legitimacy in government except Hamas. Nobody here in this thread is anyway.

          You still missed the point though as they are not doing collective punishment. Collateral damage is not collective punishment.

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            11 months ago

            The point was you keep mentioning Hamas as an elected government even though that is laughable at this point, whereas the people of Israel seem to be pretty on board with genocide.

            As for collective punishment, I think the entire population of Gaza has been suffering collective punishment for years, but certainly the moment Israel cut off food, power, and water they were engaging in collective punishment. Like really obviously, you’d have to be either really dumb or really dishonest to say otherwise.

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              11 months ago

              He’s Israeli, it’s in his material interests to pretend his country isn’t doing exactly what they publicly admit they’re doing.

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              11 months ago

              I agree that Hamas should not be the government of Palestine and that the people would have difficulty removing them even if they wanted them gone. Who do you suggest should do it? I still do not understand what the legitimacy of the Israeli government has to do with the legitimacy of the Palestinian one.

              Israel is at war right now. Certainly, the literal laws have changed to that of armed conflict. Making claims against it that do not cite international laws that they are signatory to are irrelevant. I don’t think understanding the legal status of the conflict is me being dumb or dishonest. It certainly shows that I may not be talking on the same level of education or experience. That’s the funny thing about the internet. You never really know exactly who or what you are talking to.

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                11 months ago

                Hamas became the leadership in Gaza because Isreal funded religious extremism that became Hamas to oppose the PLO, part of which was the secular democratic socialist Fatah party led by Yassar Arafat.

                Isreal is responsible for the violence and more violence will not end this conflict unless genocide is the goal.