• Razp@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      You missed the point :

      Russia invades and terrorises the Ukrainian civilians. We punish Russian civilians aka collective punishment.

      Hamas invades Israel and terrorises Israeli civilians. Israel punishes Gaza civilians aka collective punishment.

      In the first case we are OK. In the second case we scream at Israel (the OP post) “Collective punishment is war crime!!”

      We. Are. Hypocrites.

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        1 year ago

        Please, by all means, inform the class what “collective punishments” Russian Citizens are currently facing that are directly equivalent to what Israel is doing.

        You won’t because you’re a 🤡 and you know it.

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        1 year ago

        Ok, no. Sanctions have legal framework. Sanctions are targeted largely at the government, not the people. The EU abiding by its own rules and taking legal action against an offending, aggressive country is very different from a single country receiving what is essentially a terrorist attck and indiscriminately killing everyone on the opposing side.

        Conflating those two things is intentionally going out of your way to villify a reaction to a full scale, unprovoked invasion. It’s dishonest at the very least.