• JWayn596@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Let's not forget that the act of using civilians as shields is a warcrime in the first place to prevent this kind of situation from occurring.

    If Israel tells Palestinian civilians to evacuate because there's Hamas military targets in that building, and Hamas troops tell them no. Then they die, and Hamas can cry wolf.

    It would be Israel who is following international decorem and Hamas making it difficult for any country to support them.

    Just now, Austria cut off aid to the Gaza region. Is that Israel's fault? Nope.

    Hamas had good PR going and they fucked it up by escalating with brutality.

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      1 year ago

      Cutting off power to Palestinians is also a war crime. Why are war crimes only bad when Palestine does them an not when Israel does them 5x as often?

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        I'm not justifying anything that Israel has done in the past. The main point of my comment is that Hamas made a really poor decision here on behalf of the Palestinians. There is absolutely no doubt.

        There is no moralizing or whataboutism.

        The fact of the matter is that this caused a divided Israel to unite in anger. And support for Palestine has been cut by all European nations and Australia. Palestinian sympathizers and charity leaders have been among the victims.

        The question you should be asking is if you support the Palestinian people is…

        What the actual hell is this bonehead decision-making by Hamas? There is no scenario of success in this endeavor unless the Western world decided to withdraw all support from Israel and give it to Hamas.

        Was that going to happen? No. Hamas never tried to establish good diplomatic relations with anyone.

        The world stage is a democratic club, and Hamas rejected it all. Hamas burned every single bridge with other countries no matter how many citizens of those governments complain.

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            1 year ago

            Okay I'll answer you. It's wrong for Israel to cut power to civilians. It's right for Israel to cut power to military targets.

            If military targets embed their infrastructure with civilian infrastructure. Oopsies. Civilians are now military targets.

            Palestinians MAYBE shouldn't have Hamas in power if they're going to power their military operations with civilian power. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

            Every world power knows that, that's why most have pretty much gotten behind Israel, regardless of any apartheid Israel has done.

            The US did the same thing when 9/11 happened. The US did the same thing in Operation Desert Storm along with other NATO countries who joined the US in operations in the middle east.

            Nobody in the west complained then, and nobody's complaining now, because Hamas did the dumb dumb.

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              If military targets embed their infrastructure with civilian infrastructure. Oopsies. Civilians are now military targets.

              NO! What the fuck NO! Even if that was true it's disgusting but Israel routinely lies about the presence of Hamas and then never even bothers to doctor proof.

              Every world power knows that, that’s why most have pretty much gotten behind Israel, regardless of any apartheid Israel has done.

              Lol nah, its because the US and UK use Israel as a FOB. That's it. It's strategically advantageous so they will get behind any lie Israel makes up that helps them keep it as a base.

              Nobody in the west complained then, and nobody’s complaining now, because Hamas did the dumb dumb.

              Yes they did. Bro lie through your teeth more. And you act like what the US did after 9/11 was a good thing? It fucking wasn't. WE ALL KNOW THAT NOW. We accept that Bush did war crimes. No one argues about that. We don't do anything about it but we all look back and are like "wow that was really fucked up"

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        Literally the first thing the US does in any engagement is cut the power.

        It's not a war crime lol

        With certain limitations, parts of a country's electrical grid can be considered legitimate targets if they are used to power military facilities. This is true even if the targets have a civilian as well as a military purpose, so long as destroying the object would "offer a definite military advantage"

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          Israeli authorities' cutting off electricity to Gaza and other punitive measures against Gaza's civilian population would amount to unlawful collective punishment, which is a war crime, said the Human Rights Watch on 9 October.

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            Human Rights Watch is an activist group with no authority.

            You are free to agree or disagree with them. Clearly I disagree here, but I do agree with their condemnation of the Palestinian attacks.

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          As if the US gives a single fuck about war crimes. If we did, at least 5 people from George W. Bush's administration would be rotting in prison right now.

          Yes, it's still a war crime when we do it.