• @batslug@lemmygrad.ml
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    -141 year ago

    Settlers aren’t civilians they are actively participating in an armed occupation.

    What do you mean by participating? Is just living on stolen land enough to deserve death? Even just visiting as well?

    Colonial states hide behind their noncombatant population to justify their atrocities.

    That is just the human shield argument, but applied to Isreal.

    • @anicius@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      What do you mean by participating? Is just living on stolen land enough to deserve death? Even just visiting as well?

      Yes moving or visiting stolen land is putting yourself in harms way because occupied peoples have a right to violently resist occupation. Obviously, a non violent solution would be preferable but the lives lost during armed resistance are largely due to the existence of the occupation.

      That is just the human shield argument, but applied to Isreal.

      The pattern is typically settlers move in, settlers get into a conflict with the native population, and the settler state uses this conflict as justification for further expansion. Settlers are completely complicit in this.

      • @batslug@lemmygrad.ml
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        -81 year ago

        Obviously, a non violent solution would be preferable

        This post is saying that the violence was good, that is my issue. Like yes Isreal is to blame for it as well, but killing unarmed ppl is bad. It does not matter who they are, why they are where they are, it is bad to kill ppl. who are not fighting.

        • ButtigiegMineralMap
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          61 year ago

          Just to clarify, I think Hamas does a much better job of keeping hostages safe than Israel does. Gaza’s water and power is being shut off and Hamas still gives their limited resources to hostages and assures them that they will be released safely, Israel on the other hand takes all of Gaza hostage by shutting off access to water and electricity. And they don’t care how many Palestinians die in the process

          • @batslug@lemmygrad.ml
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            -41 year ago

            all 1000 Isrealies who died were fighting?

            All I am saying is hamas did in fact do bad things. Not sure what happend here, that saying a radical islamist organisation is bad (or even, is not perfect), is now a hot take. I guess we need to congratulate Bibis party for helping them take power👍👍

            • ReaZ
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              31 year ago

              Nobody said any of those things and you know that.

            • Rasm653u [He/him]
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              31 year ago

              You’re building a strawman and you’re speaking nonsense. I believe that you have not investigated this issue and there fore have no right to speak about it, but that is just my opinion.