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This meme is from 2004. History repeats itself.
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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What good does a warning do?
Hey, I'm about to obliterate your neighborhood in 12 hours. Get ready.
Gee thanks, don't know what I would've done. Now I'm sure you'll at least let me seek refuge in the territories you occupy, Israel, right? Right?!!
Hamas missiles target military installations, not civilians. Israel has the modern weaponry to only target the militants, whereas Hamas doesn't. Yet Israel's casualties have magnitudes more of civilians than Hamas, despite their imprecise weapons.
That exactly tells you why it's so imprecise. Israel has weapons created by the world's top rocket scientists and the most precise manufacturing facilities, and for Hamas it's people who barely have couple hours of electricity per day putting something together in one of the most densely populated areas, full of rubble and destruction.
When I say they "target" military facilities, I mean that's what they aim for. Not that they have the high military capabilities to never miss.
I don't deny that there are individuals in Hamas who have targeted civilians or killed them needlessly. Hamas is a resistance militia and not a hive mind. Unfortunately, living your entire life in a concentration camp with limited food and electricity, watching families burning alive and buildings coming down may lead you to hate people who are rave dancing on the gates of your open air prison, or even the regular civilians. It is not rational, but it is bound to happen. And because of this, I blame Israel.
And I don't blame Israel to absolve Hamas of blame. Hamas leadership is complicit in ignoring civilian killing, I do not deny this. But blaming Hamas will drive no significant change. The root cause of these issues is Israel. At the very least, the civilian killings are usually individual actions, and Hamas' military campaigns target the military. Whereas for Israel, civilians are target, and Hamas is their tool to convince Israelis that bombing Gaza is good.
The difference is, hamas uses civilian buildings AS military buildings. They literally use their brethren as shields, so they can say "you can't attack us or it's a humanitarian crisis!"
Yes, bombing civilian buildings SUCKS, but we have to also at least acknowledge the wrongs of Hamas here, acknowledge how they've pretty much left no other options.