
You should also ask them if they bring up a conflict between two countries on a post that has nothing to do with the conflict. You should also ask them if they also boycott products from other countries that are doing bad things as much as they boycott Israeli products. Finally, you should ask them if they would criticize a celebrity for giving birth at a hospital founded by a citizen of that country (it wasn’t even an Israeli hospital, it was a Jewish hospital that serves the entire community)
Congratulations you hate the government, you can join the huge number of Israelis who voice their concerns, oppositions and political voice freely. Welcome to a nation with democratic principles. Do you see the same thing happening in the Palestinian territory? When’s the last time either Gaza or the WB held an election? What is the % of support that Hamas has in either territory?
and I would also ask to the people who want Israel to magically cease existence (expected of no other country), what would the difference be between the structure of Israel’s current gov and this magical hypothetical one. If they want to replace it with a “Palestinian state,” they will get an actual ethnostate governed by religious law, which would immediately hunt down and persecute all the lgbtq, jews, druze, and other groups that take refuge in Israel.
I don’t think you even know what theocracy is. Theocracies do not force a certain religion down everyone’s throat. For example Iran has a sizable Jewish population and they are free to practice their religion. What theocracy does is use religions text to make laws vs. human text like the constitution. And more often gives more freedom. If you kill in Iran, the family of the victim decides what happens to you: sentence you to death, demand blood money or forgive and forget.
entity/ˈen(t)ədē/An entity is something that has a distinct, independent existence, whether it is physical or abstract. Israel as a nation, with a functional independent government, currency, military, social programs, borders, etc etc quite literally satisfies the definition of “entity” you weapons grade donut.
Heads of state communications are documented. There is no evidence of the conversation between the president of the uae and Netanyahu. It’s just claimed. Additionally, the veracity or vagueness of the intelligence can lead to certain decisions. We have the “benefit” of hindsight. Same thing with 9/11, same thing with Pearl Harbor etc. it’s not that simple.
There couldn’t be any reasons for children being “overrepresented” in the death toll… like maybe the fact that HALF of Gaza’s pop are under 18, or the very extensively documented use of child soldiers by Hamas. Something else you should keep in mind is that the death toll represents deaths, NOT who fired the shot. Once again, Hamas has a well-documented history of brutally killing Gazans. Currently, they even hikack aid trucks.
I don’t give a flying fuck what the UN says, stop appealing to authority and form your own damn opinion. Francesca Albanese is also nuts and said that the West is oppressed by the Jewish lobby. You can find any “expert” to make any claim. If you want, I can go through hers and refute those, but I’d rather you actually made your own.
Shitty false equivalency. I have nothing against Palestinians, and believe that the IDF has taken numerous measures to ensure their wellbeing, as it should. Like I said, make an actual argument and back it up instead of deferring to Francesca Albanese to make it for you and using smears.
It’s urban warfare genius. “There is rubble in urban warfare therefore genocide” makes no sense unless there’s a separate crime called concretecide. Actually, the amount of destruction without a corresponding loss of life should say something in and of itself about the success of evacuation efforts. You also obviously won’t feel the need to point out how the building destruction rate is a direct consequence of Hamas boobytrapping+ building military infrastructure underneath entire neighborboods
But hey let’s talk about what Israel has done. They’ve facilitated mass polio vaccinations for Gazan children, have an entire intelligence unit that has sent millions of texts, calls, and voicemails to Gazans to give advance warning of strikes (a massive commitment of resources that no other country has ever undertaken during war). They also drop leaflets with evacuation maps to humanitarian safe zones they designated and units have drones with loudspeakers to give warning. I ran out of space.
Of course this definition is acceptable to me, it’s disingenuous for you to imply that it isn’t. And let me focus you on the intent, which is the foundation that determines genocide. Based on the many efforts I highlighted just below this (we commented at about the same time), and many more that I didn’t have space to list, I believe there is no intent. Israel has clearly acted with the opposite, a strong intent to preserve civilian life.
It means everything. We literally have an identical moral code and dispute whether something is fact. Someone who supports genocide does NOT share that moral code. I’m proving to you that it isn’t and you are too stuck in a fucking echo chamber to even know how to respond. You STILL haven’t actually managed to dispute a single point and won’t engage because your echo chamber depends on it, and your viewpoint collapses if you do. It’s pathetic.
And you use your ad hom and strawman as fillers for your argument to discredit me ad your opponent. Instead of responding to me point by point, you paint a caricature of me and use that as the reason that you won’t engage, winning the argument in your head by the virtue of being the only person worthy of making one.
You have not made a single argument thus yet other than rubble=genocide. I already explained the difference between supporting genocide, which actually entails a difference of underlying morals, and disagreeing on whether a statement is fact, which isn’t reflective of any moral difference, yet you paint yourself as morally superior.
You aren’t distinguishing between urban warfare and genocide or accounting for the why. Hamas has routinely used hospitals for operations. A hospital, house, school, etc loses protected status when illegally used for warfare. In recent examples of urban warfare in general, most hospitals have been destroyed or severely damaged, so again, I refer you back to my argument that the level of destruction is a result of urban warfare where entrenched terrorists embed themselves in civ infrastructure.
Aid levels are so high that current hunger rates in Gaza are LOWER than prewar and many wealthy Western countries to boot. I think it would be great if we could try to also bring in more nutritious food but I’m not sure how feasible that is (stunting is up because eating MREs for years is very unhealthy).
They planted explosives in a HEZBOLLAH pager shipment, which was also in Lebanon not Gaza… They have targeted “journalists” that were later posted on Hamas PLFP and PIJ pages with their aks and headbands. There is no evidence of white phosphorus use as a weapon. It is used as a designator, that shouldn’t be conflated. If you are referring to the incident where two trucks were mistakenly targeted, an independent Australian inquiry came to the exact same conclusions as an Israeli one.
So as the war got less hot, food availability improved. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that distributing aid in an active warzone is incredibly difficult, not to mention dangerous for the civilians delivering it. Also keep in mind that many of those articles headline with figures for Northern Gaza, the hottest conflict zone, which was evacuated.
To begin with, this lists the total deaths in Gaza during the war. It makes zero distinction between (and it is impossible to distinguish between) deaths as a result of Israeli attacks and as a result of Hamas and the PIJ committing crimes against the Palestinian people on a massive scale. It also doesn’t account for the fact that this death toll displayed includes dead combatants. And correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe 8% of 2.14 million is equal to 85750.
This argument makes no sense and asserts that they are committing genocide by starving the population to death, but at the same time, are only not starving the population to avoid a genocide or war crimes verdict. You can’t have both at once. And if Israel wanted to destroy the population by starvation, they could have, yet malnutrition accounts for very few of the war deaths.
Gonna say again that if that was happening it wouldn’t be legitimate. I will always hope for the best for Palestinians. I’ll continue to debate you here as long ad you want to do that, I’ve always been a big believer in debating anything, no matter how crazy I think the other side is. I’ve debated racist xenophobic and islamophobic people because that’s the only way I can hope to possibly help them change their minds.