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NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says

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Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says

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NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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"Cutting water, cutting electricity, cutting food to a mass of civilian people is against international law," said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Muscat.
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime

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      More specifically,

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_punishment

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      Does it say anything in there about slaughtering non-combatants? Because that’s what Hamas did.

      There are going to be a lot of things you don’t like that will happen in the following days. But, the dogs of war are off the leash.

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        you may be shocked to know that it’s not uncommon for both sides in a conflict to do various war crimes.

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          Shocking.

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        Are you excluding all the Palestinians Israel has killed and the homes and land they stole?

        I can see how the math looks if you exclude huge pieces of the dataset

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          War was declared this last weekend. No more tit for tat.

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        https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties

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        Is what Hamas did “okay?” Is Israel no better than they are?

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          You want a good guy/bad guy so bad. Fact is that Hamas killed babies in their crib and that’s vile and animalistic and way over the line. I simply acknowledge that fact while realiz8ng that Israel is an oppressor. I don’t Ithink in black and white terms as I realize that the world has more nuance than 5hat. In fact, I feel sorry for Palestinians. They never got their Gandhi, but rather a bunch of violent ass clowns who don’t give a shit about them.

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            No, exactly the opposite. I recognize that there is no “good guy/bad guy” dichotomy. There’s only good and bad actions. Slaughtering non-combatants is a bad action regardless of who’s doing it. You can’t “justify” it for either side of the conflict, especially not by saying “the other side did it.”

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        My mate’s sister actually trained those dogs, pretty cool.

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