• @SCB@lemmy.world
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    -137 months ago

    Politically motivated violence to exterminate an ethno-religious group sounds like terrorism to me

    That’s not happening.

    I’m sure you have lots of opinions on this, but I’m not talking about how I feel. I’m talking about how the world actually works.

    If you aren’t going to discuss reality there’s not much point in us continuing.

    • @WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I took the definition and pointed out how it’s applicable to the situation - what have I missed about how the world actually works? So far, it looks a lot like your feelings to me.

      • Palestinian casualties in the “conflict” are pretty squarely in-line with the broader Palestinian population, making it pretty indisputable the IDF is indiscriminately killing Palestinians, not targeting Hamas.
      • The Netanyahu administration has been spouting all sorts of genocidal rhetoric.
      • The Netanyahu administration actively propped up Hamas over moderate orgs. Seems like someone needed a pretext for the thing they’ve been trying to do for decades.
      • The Netanyahu administration has indiscriminately halted the movement of Palestinians, and cut water, power, food, trade and aid. Some of these have been restored thanks to international pressure - open war crimes and whatnot.
      • The UN has characterised the Netanyahu administration’so management of Palestine as an open air concentration camp.
      • The IDF has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians - a major share of those deaths were children.
      • The IDF lies relentlessly - tunnels built under the Al-Shifa hospital by the Israeli government? No - that was Hamas… But Hamas beheaded all those babies - trust us, bro - we’ve got the evidence, but can’t share it or have it verified. Then there’s the Arabic calendar nonsense, the “hospital” curtain bullshit, the list goes on.

      Do you have a counter more substantive than “feels”, “we don’t want to kill thousands of children - Hamas made us” or “criticising genocide is antisemitic”?

      Edit: Formatting & clarity.