88 points

In it’s ‘war against Hamas’ Israel has now bombed 3 countries that has no Hamas

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The problem with the Israeli attacks i gaza is not the attacks themselves. Israel should have the right to defend themselves on all sides.

The problem is, that in Palestine they are using this as an excuse to kill as many civilians as they can get away with. This is genocide. They are more or less regulating the population of Palestine, and arguing that they in reality are fighting Hamas. The civilians are unfortunate accidents (that more or less keep on happening day in and day out)

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Because cowering behind civilians in the hopes their deaths garner sympathy is totally not in the terrorist handbook

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30 points

It is! But that is no excuse for killing so many civilians.

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I for one don’t think you can ever justify killing civilians, let along tens of thousands of them.

Then again, I’m not a monster so 🤷

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3 points

Yeah, fuck you

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Iran has been fighting a proxy conflict against Israel through the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas since 1985.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_proxy_conflict

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How is a state that’s largely funded by another state not a proxy for the bigger state? It’s not a Israel Iran proxy war. It’s a us Iran proxy war

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Iran has been supplying the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas with munitions, intel, and training to support attacks on Israel.

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Technically, Hezbollah is a proxy for Israel.

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How so? My understanding is that Hezbollah is supported by Iran, Syria, North Korea, Russia, and Lebanon.

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Possibly because this is retaliation for drone strikes and not part of the “war against Hamas.”

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People have been warning from day 1 about the possibility of a regional escalation.

Apparently you cannot spend months acting in a way that neighboors who already don’t like you find morally reprehensible without some of those neighbors inserting themselves into the conflict.

The real question is how long can Iran avoid getting dragged into that. And if Iran gets involved directly, will we be able to contain this to a regional war, or will this small decades old conflict between parties whose total population is only about 12 million become the trigger for world war 3.

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It’s less the people and more the trade routes and resources. Some would argue the most important in the world

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God I hope so. I had a dream once that the entirety of the land between the black sea and the gulf of aden was glassed smooth, and finally the world was at peace.

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6 points

Maybe someone mumbled “they have hummus” and everyone else just rolled with it?

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0 points

3?

You forgot one at least. Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen. Maybe you can find the common denominator within these 4.

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Keep appealing to those flimsy technicalities. Totally working!

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FYI: Houthis recruit and have been responsible for the battliefield deaths of thousands of child soldiers.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/16/houthis-continue-to-recruit-child-soldiers-despite-yemen-truce

Neither side is the good guy here.

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Neither is good, but bombing the child soldiers feels worse.

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Once you’re responsible for the deaths of thousands of children, I don’t think it’s a “which is worse” contest.

Because really, you don’t get much worse than murdering thousands of children.

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5 points

Add it to the pile of Israeli war crimes

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0 points

“24 is the highest number.”

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I’m sorry, that sounds really traumatic and I hope it hasn’t followed you with additional trauma.

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Killed by Saudi Arabia with American weapons

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To paraphrase: “The Houthis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them.”

Maybe don’t bomb people, and, failing that, don’t be surprised when they bomb you back.

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5 points

Funny, works with “The Israelis entered…” too.

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11 points

Funnier still how the headlines on certain publications work. Houthis bomb Israel, Israel bombs them back; headline is “Israel bombs Yemen in Escalation with Houthis”.

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5 points

Yeah, it should just say “Yemenis die amid bombing”.

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25 points

Fuck Israel

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Yes, fuck them. They should let peaceful Houtis keep bombing ships and innocent people. Poor terrorists, can’t even terror in peace these days.

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-2 points

Poor Waffen IDF can’t do genocide with zero consequences?

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20 points

hopefully they try to open a third front with Lebanon and seal the deal on the end of their apartheid settler project 🙏

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Lebanon won’t end Israel, or vice versa, but making a move on the Golan Heights might.

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