• rivermonster@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    They shot suicide bombers who happened to be children who would have killed them. The criminals were the people (often Muslims) who groomed these kids and intentionally created the situation in the hopes of kneejerk unreasonable criticism like yours above.

    You think because they were children, the soldiers should have allowed themselves to be killed? That makes sense considering your stance on what Hamas is doing.

    It’s not racism and Islamophobia. Hamas operates this way and creates the situation with the intent to outrage non-thinkers and people with diminished capacity to reason.

    You’re outraged, but at the wrong people, though.

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      7 months ago

      I’m not devolving this into an endless cycle of you reiterating the same propaganda espoused by zionism. I have no interest in platforming you. But I will respond to this sentence in particular.

      “You think because they were children, the soldiers should have allowed themselves to be killed?”

      But they weren’t in any danger, were they? They saw a brown kid and shot them. Killing black and brown people is an American institution. America and its military are racist. They are Islamophobic. Muslims were literally portrayed as terrorists so pervasively in our media that Muslim people existing in public get murdered on a routine basis across the country. The American soldiers and hired mercenaries there literally went on killing sprees up and down the country mass murdering innocent families. They made impromptu mass concentration and torture camps. They laughed at what they did. They thoroughly enjoyed it. We made video games and movies and tv shows about it because the narrative was so pervasive that killing Muslims became a popular American pass time.

      Again, you’re spot on comparing the mass murder of innocent civilians in the Iraq war to the ongoing slaughter of innocent civilians in Palestine. Just not at all in the way you think.

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        7 months ago

        Yes. They were in danger. And it’s okay to defend your life. I have a friend who almost shot a child in this very situation when they were serving. To this day, he has PTSD and counciling for the trauma. NOBODY wants to shoot a kid or anyone else for that matter unless they’re seriously sick.

        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/04/iraq-alqaida-network-child-bombers

        Fortunately, many failed and efforts to combat that recruitment helped.

        Gaza is like if that effort had succeeded and geared up for years and years. Where 57% of the civilians support what you’re doing and are sympathetic.

        It’s a good comparison. I just don’t agree that people, even Israelis, should have to lay down their lives because Al Quesa or Hamas radicalizes illegal combatants.

        The rest of your accusations, I’ll leave unaddressed. They don’t warrant a response.