• Thrashy@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    The math leans towards the former, but when the two hypotheses suggested by the data are “we are actively and selectively targeting noncombatants” and “we just don’t give half a shit who we’re killing,” in a sane world you’d be universally branded as “the baddies” in the conflict.

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      9 days ago

      They’re bad I just want a better understanding of what’s happening so I can more accurately hate Israel

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        9 days ago

        I wish there was a way to convince them that murdering your neighbors then stealing their land is fucking evil.

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      9 days ago

      I would consider the latter to be depraved indifference, but the former to be maliciously genocidal.

      Of the two, the former is much, much worse than the latter. And with everything being a spectrum of some kind, the former is much further along the path to being evil than the latter.

      With that said, there is no single person pushing all the buttons in Israel; as such, I am sure there are people in the Israeli command structure that represent the former much more than the latter, and vice versa.

      But if there is one characterization I feel is wholly appropriate: on Oct 6, Israel looked at the evil of Hamas and said, “hold my beer and watch this.” And boy, did they ever deliver.