Hamas launches rockets from civilian areas. — BitconnectCarlos
Why? They are one side in this conflict.Which is tragic. But even worse are the number of elder Palestinians and children being killed. So again, I don't see the point of talking about Jews here. — Manuel
This is so effective because, unlike so many other ugly aspects of the US-centralized power alliance, Israeli apartheid is not some covert government operation being run by highly trained agents and manipulators. Those responsible for carrying out its day-to-day abuses are just ordinary civilians, police and soldiers who have not been trained on the sinister craft of perception management
As opposed to what exactly? The extensive tracts of 'non-civilian' land available to - oh wait, there isn't any, because Isreal is an imperialist land grabber which has confined an entire population to a shoebox, which it continues to eat away at, illegally and immorally.
But by all means, continue to defend the murder of children so that such land grabs may continue. — StreetlightX
Other regimes in the region are even worse at covering up authoritarian action. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Obviously it's awful that Palestinian children have been killed, but this is not intentional. Do you agree that intention matters? — BitconnectCarlos
You don't get to use the "intention" excuse when civilian casualties are inevitable. Attacking civilian targets is a war crime regardless of your stated intention (as if that should be trusted). — Baden
If that were true then every general or commander would be a war criminal because civilian casualties are inevitable in war. Bombing of German industrial targets? War crime. Bombing on Japan? War crime. — BitconnectCarlos
Yes. — StreetlightX
However why the US has quite a different approach to the conflict as in other cases was what I had in mind. This is very important in this case. We see that the whole peace process itself was started by Israel anticipating that once the Cold War was over, the US policy might change (as happened with South Africa). But that didn't happen, which is crucial here. — ssu
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