The law ( the Leahy Law) requires that the US vet any foreign military receiving US arms. However, that doesn’t happen with Israel

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[+] -15 points 2 years ago (3 children)
  • [+] -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I must have missed the memo where raping women to death, slicing off their tits, and mutilating their vaginas is classified as "resisting oppression".

    Hamas is bad. Very bad.

    Edit: I should have included the sauce.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67629181

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    must have missed the memo where raping women to death, slicing off their tits, and mutilating their vaginas is classified as "resisting oppression".

    I missed the proof this happened

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I did too, but what we do have proof of, in the form of hours and hours of grisly trauma-inducing footage, is quite bad enough. While we can rightly condemn its overuse, there is no universe in which the Israelis can be blamed for reacting with force.

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    Video testimony of an eyewitness

    Police have privately shown journalists a single horrific testimony

    this isn't proof

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fog of war. All information about the war is provisional at this point. The full truth will come out eventually. In the meantime, I can at least believe that the BBC saw what they say they saw. If the footage itself was faked, we will find out at some point.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    BBC saw what they say they saw

    the bbc saw someone claiming to see something. it's hearsay.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, that's true, did you read my comment?

    Also, I hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of news is hearsay. Only relatively few things are ever subjected to the level of scrutiny required by western courts of law.

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  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [+] -14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    fucking oppressed palestinian people, how dare they resist genocide, right?

    There is no genocide of Palestinians. Less than 1% of Palestinians have been killed in this conflict

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

    a. Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

    b. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

    c. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

    d. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

    I’m not totally convinced that this is Israel’s intent—most of what I’ve seen points to a brazen and sociopathic indifference typical of 7th graders and goofy “strongman” populists like Netanyahu alike—but the percentage of the population killed does not factor in determining whether it is genocide.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    They've killed 0.6% of the population, counting enemy militants.

    Gaza is 5x the density of Mosul, in which the US (who quite obviously was not committing genocide) killed ~10,000 civilians.

    Things can be shitty and not be genocide.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Again, I really don’t to weigh in on whether or not it is genocide, if only because I’m not gonna change anybody’s opinion here. Alls I’m saying is that the qualifications for genocide do not include the destruction of the entire, or even the majority of, the population.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Any sane look at the situation makes it obvious it is not genocide

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And I’m still not trying to argue with you on that. I’m just saying that the numbers you’re citing do not support your case. There are most definitely situations where killing 0.6% of a population would be considered genocide.

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