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In reply to the discussion: Poll: Do you believe Israel is committing genocide against the population of Gaza? [View all]wnylib
(21,698 posts)free reign of terror and cannot be stopped because civilians will be harmed? Several thousand Germans died when the Allies bombed Germany and followed that with a ground war, right up to the invasion of Berlin because Germany would not stop or admit defeat. Should the Allies have not invaded Germany in order to protect civilians?
Patronizing statements like "You should know this" are ridiculous. I know that nobody is pressuring Hamas to stop putting Gaza civilians at risk . Why is that?
Do you feel outrage over what Hamas is doing to the Gaza civilians? I do. Hamas has stockpiles of food, medicine, and fuel that it is hoarding in tunnels so that it can hold out against the IDF. Hamas has stolen humanitarian supplies from a UN agency that were meant for the Gaza civilians. Why do they get a free pass on what they are doing to their own civilians? There should be world wide protests against Hamas treatment of its own people and demands that Hamas aid the people and remove its weapons stockpiles from public and private civilian locations.
Hamas is playing a "win the narrative" game with public images. They WANT civilian deaths in order to cast Israel as the bully. When people demand that Israel stop fighting instead of demanding that Hamas stop committing war crimes against its own people, they are playing right into Hamas' hands
Hamas has declared its mission to be the annihilation of Jews. Israel will destroy Hamas before it will let another Holocaust happen. Israel will not let the Hamas tactic of setting up civilians to be killed stop them from pursuing Hamas.