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It wouldn't involve America if it didn't take too long and cost too much.
What’s the reasonable cost for a pier like this?
Zero, because the money we're giving to Israel should go to it instead.
It would still have a cost, just paid for from a different source. I was curious how much a pier of this kind is supposed to actually cost, but I misunderstood, and see you were making an entirely different point unrelated to that.
Fair enough, I don't know the answer to that. But I would also suggest that the corrupt nature of the Military-Industrial Complex means that it will cost a lot more than it would if it were a similar domestic civilian government contract.
Seems obvious you just think Israel is evil.
Yeah, I have this weird attitude to genocidal regimes where I consider them to be evil. Strange, I know.
You only consider them genocidal because you first considered them evil, though. Otherwise you'd see it how the many, many learned professionals and diplomats from throughout the West do, who don't agree with you.
No, I consider them genocidal because they're committing genocide.
That's your opinion. International law is based on precedent. Hamas is unprecedented: their zeal for the death of innocents, and tunnel warfare system, their international support from Iranian and Qatari oil oligarchs and monarchs, and their media. That's what you're defending right now.
How many more generations must be lost to instane religion hysteria because you're getting tricked by dead kids that were killed by Hamas and some imaginary world history in which Jews are not aboriginal?
How about revolting? How about defecting? Nah, inconceivable! Martyrdom™ for all!
Are you really claiming that the thousands of dead children in Gaza were all killed by Hamas?
Israel's bombs and bullets missed every single child?
No, very much the opposite of that. Hamas made the kids stand in front of them, though. Hamas loves dead children in Gaza. It's their most powerful weapon and look how well it worked against you.
"Israel killed a huge number of children because Hamas forced them to by standing behind them" is not the defense you think it is.
I think it's a pretty good defense. Terrorists don't get to have their own state, And they don't get to dictate the rules of engagement with absolute barbarity and disregard for human life.
Anyone not there willingly is free to gtfo the way with the other 98% of Gaza that's still alive. It sucks most for the kids, who are the most vulnerable.
How many children in Gaza should be killed in the name of fighting terrorism? Let's have a number or a percentage.
I could not say.
Some* suggesting flooding the tunnels with salt water to minimize the collateral damage caused by ordinance. This would destroy the soil forever, as I understand it. And potentially make uninhabitable for real. Obviously using gas in the tunnels is out of the question. How do you suggest that they be destroyed?
E whoops bad typo. I am not proposing that..
Why is it my job to tell Israel how to not commit genocide?
It's not.
You literally just challenged me to find a way to stop the genocide.
Because they don't think it's a genocide
They're entitled to be incorrect.