Hamas strike on Israel - Threadbans in op - mod warning in OP updated 19/10/23

Nice deflection, but I was talking about this particular Palestinian war crime which for some unknown* reason is somehow acceptable.

*we all know the unknown reason.

you seem to be the one deflecting though since we haven’t yet determined it’s a war crime you’ve put the cart before the horse. The international courts that adjudicate these such matters will ask such questions, some of which courts Israel fails to even recognize!

You all seem to excuse Palestinians' war crimes because apparently "Amnesty and the UN believe Israel have committed multiple war crimes". Fine. Both sides are committing war crimes then, can we stop pretending that you don't just simply hate Israel?

I hate zionists. There are a lot of people in Israel appalled at what Netenyahu and his settler thugs are engaged in and I applaud them.

Let's drop any pretense that you condemn or oppose war crimes committed by Israel and that you just hate Palestinians.

Oh yeah, another war crime and frequently used tactic by Israel is collective punishment:

"The only method that proved effective, not justified or moral but
effective, when Arabs plant mines on our side [in retaliation]. If we try to
search for the [particular] Arab [who planted mines], it has not value. But if
we HARASS the nearby village . . . then the population there comes out against
the [infiltrators] . . . and the Egyptian Government and the Transjordan
Government are [driven] to prevent such incidents because their prestige is
[assailed], as the Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war . .
. the method of collective punishment so far has proved effective." (Righteous Victims,
p. 275-276)

100% they shouldn't be getting involved.

It's a complicated scenario already that few adults can comprehend.

And the question is, who is going to "teach" them and what is the subject matter/curriculum going to be?

As usual though NGO's and other interest groups seem to want to fit themselves into a space they don't belong.

I'm not sure that it is right to say few people can comprehend what is happening. We can all see what is happening in Gaza,it is not that complicated.

Parents can complain to schools that include these discussions. The BDS lies in this space so of course they are going to get involved, no more then anti apartheid groups used to campaign against South Africa.

I think we can all agree that this kind of thing should be kept out of schools, no?

The last thing you want to do to any child in a group is to alienate them. I wonder how a Jewish kid would feel attending a school promoting such events, or even a SA kid back in the time of Apartheid.

They're too young at that age to be having an existential crisis about where they came from.

Russia is under international sanctions. Israel is not, and that dichotomy means that ordinary people feel obliged to take their own outrage and act, in ways both small and large.

Russia is under international sanctions. Israel is not

And why is that? Could it be because Israel's war is righteous and Russia's war isn't? No, it must be because the jews control the world, right?

Perhaps they should not have attacked Israel so. Funny, I have no bruises and am not detained by the Israelis. Yet they were. I wonder why.

In fact, I was looking at Airbnb in Israel and I reckon I could go there on holiday safely and come back, because I'm not a supporter of the terrorist regime Hamas.

Once again I feel a need to pop in here and say that war crimes a bad. Targeting civilians is bad. Killing civilians is bad. As is starving them, trapping them, jailing them or any other breach of their human rights.

Hamas Crimes are bad.

Israeli Crimes are bad.

Now let's take a look at the casualty figures. The palestinian casualties are now 30 times what the israeli is. And at least 20 times more civilians have been killed by Israel than vice versa.

So I have no problems calling out the crimes of both, but one of those sides is killing far more civilians.

You shouldn’t have the right to refuse the basic necessities of your job. Are they going to refuse to handle any mail going to England due to our history? This conflict is half way across the world and refusing to deliver mail to or from someone seems like you are infringing on their rights.

This reminds me of the dope that tried to refuse a Russian ship to dock in Dublin port of his own back on the spot. You do not get to make those type of calls.

Yes I will put that on the same list as displaying that cartoon and disrespecting that book. That's how terrorism works btw.

Your comments are horrendous, excusing away the murder of tens of thousands of men, women and children. Despicable