That’s the thing, though-- military service is compulsory in Israel at the age of 18. There are certainly conscientious objectors who don’t serve, and the compulsory draft excludes some but not all women; but the line between civilian and soldier in Israel is blurry, not clear-cut like it is in countries without mandatory military service.
On the other hand, there is no compulsory military service in Palestine because the Oslo II accord does not allow Palestinians to have a standing army, air force, or navy.
I agree, but despite this, we know that many civilians were taken and killed, including kids and elderly who cannot possibly be serving in any military.
The line is blurry for elderly people, too. Sam Colt made all people equal when it comes to capacity for personal violence.
I agree with you that killing young children is reprehensible, and I hope that consequences occur for each of the individuals responsible for the deaths of 36 Israeli children. I hold the same hopes for each of the individuals responsible for the deaths of over 10,000 Palestinian children.
I hope you’ll forgive me for giving most of my mental energy to the slaughter that is actively ongoing and much greater in scope.
So you do understand that Hamas commited war crimes and that Israel did as well and that we should evenly condemn those that are killing innocent children and babies and not try to sweep that under the rug by using evasive language correct?
Do not be one of those people who give any semblance of cover to Israel or Hamas.
All you are doing is giving ammo to the people who love to point out such things to influence neutral people.
Do not hurt the cause.
Fuck Hamas and their kidnapping and killing innocents.
Think about this, they could have freely returned any children the next day, or even at the first prisoner exchange for free to show everyone that they do not want to harm innocents in any way.
How much of a moral standing and victory would that have given them?
We could have pointed at every innocent child killed and say “Look Hamas is sparing the children while Israel continues to kill them. See what they are saying is true.”
But they didn’t!
The fucking cowards are continuing to hold children hostage.
They aren’t any better, they just don’t have the ability to do it at scale like Israel.
Fuck them both for every innocent child that is dead or will forever be traumatized by this.
I don’t know what you think “the cause” is, or what cover you think I’m giving to Israel or Hamas. Israel understands that might makes right and that no one will try to stop them because the US backs them. Hamas understands that you cannot “moral standing” your way out from under the thumb of an oppressor because if the oppressor believed in “moral standing” then they would not be an oppressor in the first place.
Morality is great, but material conditions do not care about your or my ideology.
That’s the thing, though-- military service is compulsory in Israel at the age of 18. There are certainly conscientious objectors who don’t serve, and the compulsory draft excludes some but not all women; but the line between civilian and soldier in Israel is blurry, not clear-cut like it is in countries without mandatory military service.
On the other hand, there is no compulsory military service in Palestine because the Oslo II accord does not allow Palestinians to have a standing army, air force, or navy.
I agree, but despite this, we know that many civilians were taken and killed, including kids and elderly who cannot possibly be serving in any military.
The line is blurry for elderly people, too. Sam Colt made all people equal when it comes to capacity for personal violence.
I agree with you that killing young children is reprehensible, and I hope that consequences occur for each of the individuals responsible for the deaths of 36 Israeli children. I hold the same hopes for each of the individuals responsible for the deaths of over 10,000 Palestinian children.
I hope you’ll forgive me for giving most of my mental energy to the slaughter that is actively ongoing and much greater in scope.
So you do understand that Hamas commited war crimes and that Israel did as well and that we should evenly condemn those that are killing innocent children and babies and not try to sweep that under the rug by using evasive language correct?
Do not be one of those people who give any semblance of cover to Israel or Hamas.
All you are doing is giving ammo to the people who love to point out such things to influence neutral people.
Do not hurt the cause.
Fuck Hamas and their kidnapping and killing innocents.
Think about this, they could have freely returned any children the next day, or even at the first prisoner exchange for free to show everyone that they do not want to harm innocents in any way.
How much of a moral standing and victory would that have given them?
We could have pointed at every innocent child killed and say “Look Hamas is sparing the children while Israel continues to kill them. See what they are saying is true.”
But they didn’t!
The fucking cowards are continuing to hold children hostage.
They aren’t any better, they just don’t have the ability to do it at scale like Israel.
Fuck them both for every innocent child that is dead or will forever be traumatized by this.
I don’t know what you think “the cause” is, or what cover you think I’m giving to Israel or Hamas. Israel understands that might makes right and that no one will try to stop them because the US backs them. Hamas understands that you cannot “moral standing” your way out from under the thumb of an oppressor because if the oppressor believed in “moral standing” then they would not be an oppressor in the first place.
Morality is great, but material conditions do not care about your or my ideology.
Since you have a blurry excuse for everything : what about killed foreigners, whom aren’t Israeli neither jew ?
I don’t think you’re asking this question in good faith, so I’m not going to engage in a conversation with you. Have a good morning!
Still war crimes, they kidnapped babies and children