• Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    This is an important distinction in my opinion. Does the IDF care if they kill palestinian civilians? No. But they aren’t actively trying to murder as many palestinian civilians as they can either.

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        1 year ago

        How should I know. What I do know however is that if the IDF wanted, they could kill many more Gazans.

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          1 year ago

          Maybe they just want plausible deniability more than they want immediate genocide. It sure looks to me like that’s what they’re doing, and that it’s working.

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        Jabalia refugee camp consists of an area that is 1,4 km2. It had a registered population of about 50 000 inhabitants in 2017, who knows how much these days. It’s not exactly a small place, even if the term “refugee camp” might give that image.

        So who knows. Perhaps they’re just murdering civilians, or perhaps a place like that is a perfect breeding ground for extremism.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabalia_refugee_camp

        • ???@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Exactly. Israel bombed a giant refugee camp. How is this helping Israel’s case?

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            1 year ago

            I dunno, as – believe it or not – I’m not part of IDF. But you can of course wonder: are they fighting a popularity war or an actual one?

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              Well, I, for one, hope that the IDF is finally fucking losing the popularity war. Until the US stops propping them up no matter what, they have no incentive to seriously work towards peace.

              If they were fighting an actual war, then the leaders of Israel would be pulled into the ICC for war crimes.