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Israel has assembled a large system of pumps that may be used to flood tunnels used by militant group Hamas under the Gaza strip in a bid to drive out fighters, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing U.S. officials.

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[–] Candelestine 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... they know ants have been dealing with that same problem for millions of years? There's design tricks that limit how effective it can be. And blast doors are a thing.

It'd be the first thing anyone thought of, though. This isn't a creative solution or something.

[–] pensivepangolin 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No no no no the Israeli military is the most incredible, most effective, best trained, most moral military in the world. They are super creative, innovative geniuses. How else would they have come to the conclusion that they could be more effective in their genocide efforts by bombing hospitals and refugee camps and then justify it by claiming they’re so scared and everyone looks like a scary terrorist?

Hopefully, my sarcasm drips off of every phrase.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's reductive to absurdity, It has nothing to do with whether they're scared or not, it has to do with Hamas using them for terrorist shit, which has been pretty well established at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If I am holding a hostage are you justified to kill the hostage to kill me?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If a hostage dies when taking you out as collateral damage, absolutely. Otherwise, If this tactic is proven to work as a deterrent, we're just going to get more hostage taking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s where we differ.

Journey before destination!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Journey before destination

The real hostages were the friends we made along the way

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, particularly if you've made it abundantly clear that if I allow you to escape, you'll do everything you can to target and murder even more civilians and take even more hostages.

Did you have a more challenging question available?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, you’re OK with killing children as long as you get what you want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Idk what that reference is to.