• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    5·
    20 days ago

    Palestine doesn’t have an army, a navy, or an air force.

    But, enjoy all the excuses you will undoubtedly see in this thread from genocide Israeli apologists.

    Hell, Palestinians can’t even go to a designated aid station for food without getting massacred by Israel.

    But it’s not just Israel/Palestine. War has always been like this.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      20 days ago

      I don’t know if there has ever been this level of discrepancy between availability vs access to aid in a conflict. There’s lots of aid available, but Gaza has zero access to it.

      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
        2·
        20 days ago

        It’s a manufactured famine, which is a war crime. (Not to mention murdering civilians at will when they try to obtain aid.)

        But try telling that to an Israel apologist.

      • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        Wherever it may have been where their grandparents or parents came from. It’s a failed colonialist experiment that needs to come to an end.

  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    20 days ago

    Because Hamas then wouldn’t stand a chance and prefers to use the civillians as a tactical asset to increase their odds, which is asshole-behaviour.
    And because the Israelis decided to don’t care about this civilians any more, which is also asshole behaviour.

    So, in short: because both are assholes.

  • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
    1·
    20 days ago

    Because that’s not how any of this works.

    For one, modern warfare is always asymmetrical. There’s no fair fights - the weapons are too strong. There’s no way to do this without turning it into a sport, at which point why make it lethal? Either way, the loser could decide to go back to violence

    For two, this isn’t a war, this is denying aid to starving people, then shooting at the bread lines for reasons such as… Showing up too early

    For three, Hamas are hardliners. They want all of Israel, which is obviously impossible. So their method is to make Israel martyr the civilians in the hopes the rest of the world will attack Israel

    For three part 2, Israel is propping up Hamas because they’re hardliners. When Hamas gets to open to a real piece deal, Israel assassinates the moderate (and often the negotiator)

    And beyond all of that… This is violence. This is what happens when you flip the table. We could settle conflict with Yu-Gi-Oh games, but only so long as everyone abides the results.

    We have rules of warfare… But even those are broken all the time. In fact, if everyone followed the rules, both sides would only be allowed to hit military targets. Hamas wouldn’t be able to hide among civilians, so they’d just occasionally attack Israeli troops before running off to a deep hole somewhere. Israel would only be able to attack that hole, so they’d probably occasionally find one and cut the numbers

    So don’t ask why the combatants don’t duke it out… Ask why the rules aren’t working