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by darawk 907 days ago
who cares about casualty numbers when one side initiated it by killing civilians? Israel has license to kill every single one of them until the hostage taking, rockets and murders stop. Israel didn't initiate this. Palestine did. They did so knowing this would be Israel's response. This blood is on the hands of the Palestinian leadership's intentional strategy.

Don't want your people to die? Don't organize massacres of civilians. Real easy. If your government organizes such a massacre, I'm sorry but your life is forfeit. Maybe vote differently next time.

Casualty counts are irrelevant if we aren't looking at who the casualties are and who started what.

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Your arguments imply that you also believe Palestinians have the right to retaliate against innocent civilians because of Israel's actions. IDF regularly takes hostages (calling them "criminals" doesn't change material realities), murders extrajudicially, etc. By your reasoning Hamas was acting in morally righteous ways. History didn't begin on October 7, 2023.
> History didn't begin on October 7, 2023.

That's right, it began in 642 CE ;)

>one side initiated it by killing civilians?

What an asinine argument. 5 minutes on Google and you would not even be able to tell which side you yourself are talking about. Started it? When? This time? Last time? 20 years ago? No matter which side you support, you have lost the argument when you cherry-pick the two minutes of history that you deem most important. The fact is one side kills a lot more innocent civilians than the other side, and it is the same side that have the best weaponry to actually avoid civilian casualties.

>Casualty counts are irrelevant if we aren't looking at who the casualties are and who started what.

You seem to point out that your own argument is completely irrelevant, as you do neither of those things. History didn't start a few months ago.

Odd to see a person just openly advocating genocide like that's a cool thing to do