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‘We killed dogs’: Israeli troops kill two children, parents in West Bank (www.aljazeera.com)
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Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian couple and two of their children as they drove in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health authorities, with the Israeli military saying the incident is under review.

Ali Khaled Bani Odeh, 37, his 35-year-old wife Waad, and two of their children – Mohammad and Othman, aged five and seven, respectively – were shot in the head in the village of Tammun on Sunday. Two of their other children were wounded by shrapnel, according to Palestinian health authorities.

Speaking to the Reuters news agency at the hospital, Khaled, 12, one of the two surviving boys, said he heard his mother crying, his father praying, but no voice of any of his other brothers before silence prevailed after shots sprayed the car.

“We came under direct fire; we didn’t know the source. Everyone in the car was ⁠martyred, except my brother Mustafa and me,” the boy said.

He said soldiers, who ⁠pulled him out of the vehicle before beating him, shouted: “We killed dogs.”

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[–] -2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

"Oh, look, those people aren't obeying the law! If we do things as bad as their worst, things will get better!"

Do you think the Germans would have surrendered if they were certain that every thing they had done to the Jews would be visited on them? Why wouldn't they fight to the last man, causing each side to pay in millions more deaths?

Netanyahu can be stopped without committing atrocities. Committing atrocities in return just means neither side will have any incentive to stop. The rules of warfare aren't there to protect the weaker side, they're there to give an alternative to fighting until one side or the other is utterly destroyed. And if your response is, "Well, I'm okay with destroying all the fascists," then you first have to identify all the fascists. This isn't something simple like blue eyes or straight hair. Even if you could kill every fascist, that still wouldn't mean that you couldn't have more. The belief isn't genetic.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    W8 w8 w8.. I'm just in favor of going the wood chipper route for the top brass and soldiers who were caught saying things like "we just killed dogs", see what happens next, i would assume that in general shit behavior from israel would stop. I'm not saying that all the people of Israel should go to the wood chipper, there are plenty of people that protest and are against the current way of Israel government

    plus, you should really come to terms with the idea that some people in the world are really bad and respect nothing but force, putin is one clear example, do you think you can come to terms with him without force? angela merkl serve him and his friends (oligarchs) a full plate by building the pipeline for russian oil/gas to supply central europe, it was the deal of a lifetime, guess what? they accumulated wealth for some years and then shit on the plate and now he's playing imperialist sending all his people into the meat grinder and now even recruiting foreigners -.-

    also, germans surrendered because hitler committed suicide when his capital was surrounded with no escape and his soldiers were still dying on the streets defending said capital, they didn't go to the last soldier but got close to it

    we can kid ourselves and think everyone is empathetic and sensible, but unfortunately that's not the truth, some people are murderers/egomaniacs/warmongers who only understand force.. these need the guillotine or wood chipper

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