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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (12 children)

They’re wildly different wars from a population density per square mile perspective.

[–] Maggoty 6 points 11 months ago (11 children)

So maybe 2,000 pound bombs weren't the right weapon?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (10 children)

There are no good weapons for densely populated areas. Civilian casualties will always be high in populated urban areas unfortunately.

[–] Snoozemumrik 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Especially when you've cornered that population in an open air prison before bombing them.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Egypt could open their gates if they wanted to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So Israel can displace the whole population of Palestine? That's genocide. You're pro genocide.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

First, I’m not pro anything. I didn’t say anyone should do something. I said there are other parties who could do something.

Second, displacement isn’t genocide by any definition I’ve heard. And again, to be extra explicit, I’m not saying they should be displaced, or that it would be right to displace anyone.

But you can’t call it an open air prison and then call me a genocide supporter when I point out there’s another door to the “prison”?

[–] Snoozemumrik 0 points 11 months ago

Oh, okay. The displacement part is just a crime against humanity according to UN definition, the rest of the genocide is covered by "Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group"

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