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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lol "garrisoned". This isn't Age of Empires. Gaza is one of the most densely populated area on the planet. They have no freedom of movement, and the area is completely blockaded. Anywhere anyone in that area tries to stage a defense is a "civilian area." They're literally prohibited from having anything else.

So there is nowhere they could defend from that you wouldn't consider "human shield."

But you know that.

Edit: Corrected. Because fascist apologists love getting honest interlocutors hung up on semantics. I misspoke, and it's "just" one of the most densely populated areas. Because that changes my argument in any real way whatsoever.

[–] HappycamperNZ 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uhh... military forces holding a building and using it as a base is literally called a garrison.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know what the word means. If you want to get all semantic about it, Hamas isn't a "military force," they're an insurgency. I'm not sure an insurgency "garrisons".

[–] HappycamperNZ 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As the elected representative of Palestine they are indeed a military force, operating in a state to state conflict. Like the taliban in Afghanistan - they are the controllers of the country, no longer an insurgency. How "good" they are, morally or militarily, is irrelevant.

Its like saying the US of A is actually an insurgency because they toppled the British government and established their own. Nope - government.

How fair the elections were is up for debate, and how they stopped elections but they are thr government of Palestine.

Furthermore, why are you bring up that I'm being semantic with a word that you had a problem with using?