Human Rights Watch says Israel used white phosphorous in Gaza, Lebanon

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.world – 293 points –
Human Rights Watch says Israel used white phosphorous in Gaza, Lebanon
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In Star Wars terms Israel is the Empire and Hamas are the Rebels.

The Rebels ruthlessly murdered hundreds of millions of people when they blew up the Death Star.

Military targets are morally different than civilian targets with or without collateral damage. Hamas are not the heroes.

Hamas knew what was coming when they launched their senseless terror. The blood of civilians on the Gaza Strip is on their hands.

Likewise, Netanyahu and his far right government has been provoking this intentionally. He has the blood of Israeli citizen on his. They did not expect an attack to be this successful, but I guaran-fucking-tee you they were waiting for and intentionally provoking an opportunity to strike back.

Both of them intentionally kill civilians. Both can get fucked.

If you're looking for heroes, start with the people working for UN schools at the Gaza Strip.

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That would fly if Israel a) hadn't been targeting civilians for 40 years and b) didn't respond by targeting civilians.

You really need to shut your fucking mouth when you clearly have no fucking clue what happened literally this week.

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That's an awful analogy - go watch Clerks if you want the full explanation but the Death Star was a military installment... Hamas has intentional attacked civilians but I must have missed the part of Star Wars where Admiral Ackbar carpet bombed Coruscant.

Both parties in this war are guilty of finding civilian casualties perfectly acceptable and have intentionally attacked non-military targets.

To keep the analogy going, they would have to have raped and beheaded the occupants of the death star before actually blowing them up...and the Death Star would have to have been an Imperial tourist destination with not just Imperial citizens, but also visiting citizens from all across the galaxy..but if that's what George Lucas had filmed, I think there would have been a lot less sympathy for the rebels.

First time I have heard claims that Hamas had dicks out at the music festival.

Well then you're blissfully ignorant of the recent news.

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