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by mrguyorama 276 days ago
>peace with Hamas is not possible since their aim is to destroy Israel and remove all Jews by any means necessary.

I agree, but that doesn't make how Israel conducts this war acceptable.

It has been reported pretty consistently how Israel basically accepts crazy high "collateral damage" in their work, and have demonstrated that they do not respect Palestinians as sovereign individuals who do not deserve to be bombed for being next door to a terrorist.

Israel has demonstrated that they will literally bomb things due to AI hallucination.

You don't get to freely kill anyone you want just because there are some terrorists in that country. Putin doesn't get a pass to bomb all of Ukraine just because some people really hate Russia in that country.

This is NOT an existential war for Israel, not at this time. They do not get to act like it's a free for all with who they kill.

They have killed tens of thousands in their attempts to harm Hamas, and despite demonstrating that they have the precision and power to do so with significantly fewer innocent deaths, they have no problem with the innocent body count they have undeniably stacked up.

Israel has chosen to do this with utter cruelty. That's not necessary. It's unacceptable.

Israel needs to give Palestinians who don't want to be under the yoke of Hamas some sort of option that isn't "die".

Israel needs to sort out how abhorrent their soldiers act. You don't get to act like rampaging colonizers and then cry foul when the modern world is unhappy about it.

The cruelty can only be intentional at this point.