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The phone call must include the magic words, "or no more weapons"
They don't need our weapons to shoot little kids in the head. Bullets are cheap.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war
It doesn't matter if we cut off the supply or not, they don't need our weapons.
Okay now turn on your brain and use it on this nonsense article....
How can a doctor know the identity and motive of the shooter by looking at a wound?
Were these magic doctors?
Caliber and location of the wound. Ballistics is a science.
Plus, it's not like anyone else is shooting Palestinian children.
Hamas rules Gaza by assassination and fear. They kill other Palestinians with guns and other things all the time. They shoot parents in front of their kids and vice verse to stay in power. The Iranian immamate and Qatari royals don't pay people to post about it online all day, though, so Al Jazeera doesn't write about it and Guardian doesn't retweet about it, and that's the truth of the matter. The evidence is staring you in the face.
Doesn't the idea of trained, uniformed soldiers, subject to a very robust, open legal system, as well as a military code of justice enforced by courts martial, sniping kids in the head for sport sound unbelievable? I posit that not only does it sound unbelievable, but that is actually is unbelievable; that if you were being rational, you should not and would not believe it.
No, no doctor anywhere in the world can determine the identity and motive of an individual from a bullet wound. This article's presumption to the contrary defies obvious logic and physics. Think about it for five seconds. Terminal ballistics has nothing to do with identifying the shooter or motive.
In no court of law in America would these doctors testimony be admitted as identification evidence or to explain motive, and you must know this to be true. Should read more critically, slow down.
I'm sorry, but reality absolutely disagrees:
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/more-women-and-children-killed-gaza-israeli-military-any-other-recent-conflict
We have eyewitnesses to Israeli snipers shooting kids, it is NOT Hamas doing this.
https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_fatally_shoot_two_palestinian_children_in_the_head_in_the_northern_occupied_west_bank
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-killings-palestinian-children
https://www.dci-palestine.org/targeting_childhood_palestinian_children_killed_by_israeli_forces_and_settlers_in_the_occupied_west_bank
https://imemc.org/article/american-doctor-israeli-snipers-deliberately-targeted-palestinian-children-in-gaza/
"Q. Wait, you’re saying that children in Gaza are being shot by snipers?
A. Definitively. I have two children that I have photographs of, that were shot so perfectly in their chest I couldn’t put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately
. And directly on the side of the head, in the same child, no toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the world’s best sniper, and they are dead center shots."
To say nothing of other innocents:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/09/israel-snipers-shot-killing-civilians-west-bank/
Ridiculous quotes. The doctors in Gaza certainly have strong imaginations, that or magical powers.
Unfortunately, wild conjecture and speculation by people soliciting donations is not evidence.
Tell me this, how much personal experience do YOU have with sniper victims? None? Yeah, forgive me for taking the word of a medical expert over an internet expert.
None.
This isn't about taking the doctor's medical opinion over someone without a medical degree and practical experience. Read the doctor's own words. What he is saying does not follow or make logical sense.
A doctor cannot distinguish two bullet wounds as from rounds aimed and fired by a sniper or two rounds fired by a drunk with a pistol, or by two stray bullets, or even by one stray bullet, or even by one piece of shrapnel, if it's through and through. Do you not know about bullets?
The ~~sniper~~ doctor said in his own words that his opinion was based on what cannot be described as anything other than wild speculation.
pathetic
They absolutely do depend on the US lol, it's a vassal state.
Please educate yourself. Even Israeli academics admit this.
https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/israels-dependence-united-states-existential
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-could-israel-manage-without-us-support-1001473884
Israel is, depending on how you count it, between the #8th to #10th largest weapons dealer in the world. They don't need OUR weapons.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-10-largest-arms-exporters-in-the-world/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/267131/market-share-of-the-leadings-exporters-of-conventional-weapons/
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-share-global-arms-exports-2022/
https://globelynews.com/world/world-top-arms-exporting-countries/amp/
What the hell are these links, "visual capitalist" lmao
Please use academic sources. A US colony isn't going to survive without US support
Links supporting what I'm telling you, depending on how you count it, Israel is the #8, #9, #10 largest arms exporter in the world.
Us telling them "Yeah, well, we're cutting you off..." means exactly nothing to them.
man you're obstinant. Israel selling weapons tech doesn't mean they can produce the physical bombs, missiles, tanks they need to continue the war let alone defend from a coordinated counterattack.
Benjamin Miller says it best,
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-could-israel-manage-without-us-support-1001473884
All they need to do that is money, and they have the money.
So, to re-iterate:
Netanyahu isn't interested in what we have to say, and isn't threatened by our cutting off support.
There are two ways the genocide ends:
They kill every last Palestinian, devastate Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank and, crap, throw in the Golan Heights too. Why not?
Someone steps in, forcibly separates Israel from the Palestinians, and MAKES them stop.
Nobody has the political willpower for #2.
What are you talking about? You can't turn money into tanks, someone with vast natural resources and industry has to sell them to you and that requires a relationship. The main purchaser of Israeli's tech is the US, which is done to help prop up our colony's eocnomy.
Please cite an academic or foreign policy expert that says israel survives alone.
Would you accept Netanyahu?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/netanyahu-says-israel-will-stand-alone-if-it-has-to-after-u-s-threatens-halt-in-weapons-delivery
No? How about "Jerome M. Segal, retired as a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy; he is president of the Jewish Peace Lobby."
https://archive.ph/AbSMT
"Israel’s per capita gross domestic product is over $40,000 — similar to that of France and Great Britain. We have defense commitments to them, but we don’t give them any military aid. To Israel, we provide around $1,700 a year for every Israeli family.
Israel has a vibrant economy that typically grows at over 3% a year. It’s GDP is over $400 billion, with U.S. aid only 1% of its economy. If we gave no assistance at all, just the amount of the annual expansion of its economy would cover the lost aid several times over. This aid program fails the needs test."
LMAO Netanyahu hahaha OK man
Can't refute the point? Of course not, because it's plain fact.
I don't know what to say. I'm giving you academic consensus from within Israel, and you respond with Netanyahu
And an economics expert. Missed that did you?
The econ professor is suggesting cutting off aid to encourage settlers to back off, and giving the money to Palestinian refugees. It's a bit tongue in cheek.
You're not going to find a serious person who thinks Israel can survive without a world power behind it.