By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem
The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn.
It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight.
He’d been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.
He’d heard a rising clamour outside. People were screaming. “You need to escape,” somebody in the street shouted, “because they will bomb the towers”.
I feel the same way here (Lemmy) because I support Israel. Funny, how being a minority works.
EDIT: to be fair, I don’t have the numbers to claim who is a minority or not.
If you feel the need to express your unswerving support for the actions of the Israeli state under this news article, please tell us, how you see the mass destruction of civilian homes justified and necessary.
Usual disclaimer: I support neither side here. Both use horrible methods to achieve their goals and I hope for a ceasefire and improvement of both governments. From my limited information a revolution will likely be needed in case of Palestine, in Israel elections may suffice.
Never said it was unswerving, but I am hated for my opinion here. It is expected. How dare I justify murder, right?
Hamas is a terror organization. Hamas confirmed it will repeat it’s actions over and over until every jew is dead or driven from Israel. Hamas is still firing rockets at Israel and fighting the IDF. Hamas cynically uses the Geneva convention to shield itself as it commits war crimes.
It is true that the actions of the military kill innocents. I think it would’ve happened even without Hamas using them as human shields.
But should Israel simply stand idle as it’s citizens are slaughtered and kidnapped? If so, then why?
You can be anti-Hamas without needing to be pro-Israel, though
Yes Hamas is a terror organization, no, that does not allow you to behave like a terror organization when fighting them.
If you have read the article this is not about innocents which where at the wrong place a the wrong time. This article is about deliberate destruction of civilian buildings without giving any justification besides ‘There are some things that we see that you don’t see.’ in some cases evacuation was allowed, in some cases no time for evacuation was given. There is in my eyes no justification for this.
I never said that Israel should stand idle. So don’t push that opinion on me.
What could be done? Attack military targets only, give civilians time to evacuate. (Yes a civilian home becomes a military target if it is used as weapons stash/factory, but there was no indication at all in the cases listed in the article), support the more moderate Fatah in regaining control. Support new democratic elections. Provide help in forms primarily targeted at civilians: Food, water, education. Allow students from the Gaza Strip to study abroad. Part of that is already done, but hampered by the military actions.
Destroying peoples homes and basic utilities will only ensure that hate on Israel grows and support for Hamas remains steady.
That’s a false dichotomy, and one alternative approach was already provided in the comment you originally replied to.
Certainly there are other alternatives that exist in the miles wide gap between “raze all of gaza” and “stand idle”.
This is the thing that gets me - what would you do if someone barricaded themselves inside a house next door, kept taking pot shots and you and stealing people off the street? I would shoot back.
And would kill 10 innocents in the house just to get to that one guy?
That analogy breaks down when you’re the guy that locked them in the house.
Until you realise you locked them in the house after them and their friends tried to take your back yard when you were having a domestic with your partner, and a founding part of their cult is that you need to die.
(Hamas not cult, just analogy)
Because you’ve never bothered to look up a damn thing that might change your mind.
Funny how you just completely confirmed OPs hesitancy to post. You are not a minority for supporting the IDF.
Seems like they are on Lemmy
Oh no
Good.
Notice how the comment you replied to, despite claiming they “always get hate” has nothing but supportive people upvoting, while you have 3 angry lions going for the neck because you dare to say you support Israel…
It has come too far to ever work. This community, @world, is no longer a place for biased news. I have had to block for a long time, but just came back to see if it was still such a mess. Turns out it is.
The worst thing is that the mods here are directly supporting this.
Did you mean unbiased?
Well, that would mean a whole lot of work than just making sure people are civil. That would mean fact checking, confirming and banning accordingly.
That is a LOT of work… Can’t fault the mods for that.
As long as it is civil, it should be what it is. At least that’s my opinion.