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Wow what weak response. If you can not argue with facts fall back on the old tried and true everyone is antisemitic. Oh everyone hates the Israelis because they are Jewish! Do not look at the 20,000 helpless civilians they just killed. This is get pretty close to Babi Yar in scale. |
And, here you go with old and tired Holocaust comparisons. Not even close. Total fail on your part. |
Seeing as IDF soldiers are never held accountable for what they shoot, he or she will be just fine. Maybe they will stop feeling so threatened by white flags but I’m not really optimistic. |
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Well, I believe that Israel has now killed more hostages than they have rescued.
So they need to concede that their approach (which kills far more women and children than the enemy) is not working. Full stop. Violence is not a longterm solution to stop violence. Women seem to get that long before men lay down their bombs and guns. |
This is complete nonsense, you don't know what you're talking about, and it's time you stop your pathetic pro Hamas terrorist propaganda. |
Lol what exactly is nonsense? 116 IDF killed to 20,000 plus civilians? No variable Hamas dead or captured? The IDF friendly fire incident producing more casualties vs Hamas? Killing hostages on sight? Just stop. You are an embarrassment with your Kahanist propaganda. Go cheer your glorious victory in Gaza while standing on 17,000 dead child. |
Or the government in Israel would rather see these hostages(from liberal areas) dead. It is better to have dead martyrs for the state of Israel vs “leftist” who opposes settlements and want a two state solution. The government’s actions speak for themselves. |
But then why did they shoot these hostages? They did nothing threatening. The facts do not support your narrative. |
I dont have a clue about war- I do know this, and every soldier worth the name knows this as well- the life of a soldier is the cheapest life, its their purpose to kill and die so that others may live- within a war setting some lives are more precious than others and the hostages lives are the most precious, even more than children to both sides- the Palestinians seem willing to die and not report where the hostages are and the Israelis obviously should privilege hostages lives over the lives of others. The soldiers lives are the cheapest- they arent there to live/survive- they are there to get the hostages and kill Hamas,if they die in the process, well that is war, the only expendable life in the war are the lives of combatants, soldiers of both sides should die before civilians die- this is something humanity decided after the last world war and Israel agreed too. if they saw 3 men with white flag- they should have approached while training their weapons and risked death themselves instead of destroying teh lives of those families who were holding on to hope and killing those brave kidnapped men who had teh courage to escape into a warzone and the naivety to trust Netanyahu's cowardly goons. |
According to the IDF, the soldiers who killed the hostages did not follow protocol. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-16/ty-article/.premium/preliminary-idf-report-hostages-killed-by-soldiers-waved-white-flag-yelled-help-hebrew/0000018c-7283-db38-a9fc-fba363100000
I think the best thing you can say is that these soldiers are probably so turned around and stressed by not being able to tell Hamas from ordinary Gazans - because Hamaz hides and disguises itself among ordinary Gazans - that they made a tragic mistake that you can understand, if you put yourself in this situation. This is not to excuse, or diminish. But imagine how bad things must be there, to make this kind of horrible mistake. This is me, pollyanna - but I hope that this tragic event will turn enough Israelis against the war as it is being pursued, that the government will be forced back into real negotiations. Of course that then raises the question again of who they would even negotiate with - and if there is ANY party competent to carry on negotiations that can also be trusted. I don't know. But it does seem like a lot of people in Israel - not to mention outside of Israel - don't want things to keep going as they are. I am one of the zionists who keeps getting screeched at here. I believe Israel has a right to defend itself. I also don't see how this can keep going, as it is. I take my lead from the leftie Israelis - the kinds of people who lived at the kibbutzes that Hamas came to slaughter. |
| Tired of this endless war crowding out everything else. May every Jew in Israel and every Palestinian in Gaza die soon and let the rest of the world move ahead. |
um - jeff? |
We are only hearing about this failure of protocol because the dead are Israeli hostages. I think it’s fair to assume that there are lots and lots of failures of protocol that lead to shooting innocents. That the pro Israeli brigade assumes are Hamas or combatants. It’s pretty clear these soldiers have no clue and are on a hair trigger. Israel needs to stop. Their intelligence is suspect. Their troops are not well trained. They can’t remember their humanity. In these circumstances, they should not be trusted with weapons. |
Hamas commander killed 5 gone, 6 left to kill https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/12/06/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news#:~:text=They%20included%20the%20chief%20of,has%20killed%205%20of%20them. |