Simply No; who in the world are we to make judgements about who values their citizens? I simply cannot abide by this notion that any non western people do not value human life. An honest assessment of such a dire situation requires us to step away from our own ethnocentrism and not impugn to others such a value laden distortion!
It is easy to make judgements about Hamas not valuing Palestinian civilians when Hamas's leadership has explicitly stated "we don't value the lives of Palestinian civilians". They want as many civilian casualties as possible because it helps them in their PR battle. If Hamas cared about civilians, it wouldn't use civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and schools to conduct military operations.
I am in agreement and it is simplistic thinking to compare today with yesterday; Palestinians are not today's reincarnation of Germans or Japanese; different time period, history and circumstances, all of which fails as a reference point regarding radicalization.
25% killed on Oct 7 were soldiers
apnews.com
Easy judgements are also failed judgements because there is not any rigor to the thought process!
Absolutely. Longer article, but with plenty of backing for his data:25% killed on Oct 7 were soldiers
With the shock of Oct. 7 still raw, profound sadness and anger grip Israel on its Memorial Day
Families of the fallen, along with broad segments of the public, are demanding accountability from Israeli leaders over the failures that led to the deadliest attack in the country’s history.
The second part of your post is completely false. There have already been 16,000 children killed! Are they considered part of Hamas? How about you share how many militants Israel has killed vs civilians?
www.timesofisrael.com
Times of Israel? That site might as well be called Israelpropoganda.com lolAbsolutely. Longer article, but with plenty of backing for his data:
The genocide claim against Israel doesn’t add up
The ratio of combatant-to-civilian casualties in Gaza should be recognized as a historical achievement of protecting civilian lives
The data in the article is well sourced. You seem to have no problem posting information from propaganda X and Instagram accounts and Al Jazeera on here.
Well sourced? One of the “sources” is a commentary article. Also, if they really felt this way and wanted to prove it, then they’d allow outside investigators. Out of curiosity, how long have you been following the situation there? What’s your background with it?
I've been following the situation there for several decades. I don't have a background with either party. Just an observer who can see the BS being levied by each side in the propaganda battle.
Never said that. You said that. Poor point.
Maybe it's just me, but I think the blame should be on the ones that are indiscriminately dropping bombs on displaced civilians in tents and the ones that snipe children for fun. No one is saying Hamas is innocent here, but they aren't the ones flattening Gaza right now.
The reality is that Hamas targets civilians and the IDF tries not to kill civilians, but it's hard since Hamas surrounds Al-Qassam with children.
What reality are you talking about? "IDF tries not to kill civilians"?? When they drop a bomb on a tented area where they had claimed was a "safe zone" and they kill 40 innocent people, how is that trying not to kill civilians?? When they have snipers that shoot at children, is that avoiding civilian deaths? When they bomb people praying, is that avoiding civilians deaths? They are as good at avoiding civilian deaths as Raygun is at breakdancing
Yeah, I'm not buying the "IDF tries not to kill civilians" part of this. Putting total blame on Hamas for the widespread killing is BS. There is plenty of blame to go around and Likud and the IDF have a lot of blood on their hands.
