• rivermonster@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Both Russia and the elected government of Gaza (Hamas) target civilians intentionally. Hamas even targets Gaza hospitals. Probably thought false flagging Israel would be great PR, and it did work well on the worldnews crew.

    I’d say Gazas elected government, and Russia are much closer.

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      10 months ago

      Anyone harping on how Hamas is the “elected” government when they haven’t had elections in, what, 16 years, is just simping for Netanyahu’s genocide. I see you felt the need to say “elected” twice just to be really obvious about it.

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        10 months ago

        It’s important to counter these false narratives being thrown about that they’re not the official elected government with, to this day, majority support amongst residents.

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          10 months ago

          Lmfaoooo you’re a complete troll. “It’s important to counter false narratives” when every narrative you provide is clearly false.

          You are qutie clearly intentionally inciting people, and it isn’t really working in your favour here.

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      10 months ago

      Demographic from Wikipedia:

      0–14 years: 44.1% 15–24 years: 21.3% 25–54 years: 28.5% 55–64 years: 3.5% 65 years and over: 2.6%

      something like 75% of all Gazans were either not born or not of voting age when the last elections were held 16 years ago.

      Goddamned time traveling Palestinians!

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        10 months ago

        As though this changes the fact that they’re the officially elected government in Gaza and that 57% support them from the latest polling?

        Weird perspective.

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      10 months ago

      Israel targets civilians. The vast majority of buildings targeted by Israel since 7 Oct have been “power targets”, which, by their own definition, are targets that do not have significant military value but have value in that they can destablise civilian life such that the civilians might put pressure on the government to change.

      Israel are literally using violence against civilians to achieve a political goal. That is the very definition of terrorism.

      No one can argue that the events of 7 October were not terrorism. Roughly 2,000 people invaded Israel to commit terrorist acts. In response, Israel have committed their own form of terrorism and killed 20,000 people, very few of which were actually members of Hamas.

      Your argument is a near perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black.

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      10 months ago

      Oh, please tell me what you think of IDF killing their own:

      An initial IDF probe into the hostage killing incident suggests all three men were shirtless, with one carrying a makeshift white flag.

      On seeing them, one Israeli soldier shouted “terrorists!” to the other forces, initiating fire at the men, according to reports.

      While two hostages were hit immediately and fell to the ground, the third managed to escape into a nearby building where despite pleas in Hebrew, he was also shot and killed, a military official said.