Posted January 17, 2024 45 minutes ago, kenway said: @Lila9Ā In my heart I know you to be a decent human being and I know you mean well. I don't know if you are being cynical or not... But if it is genuine, thank you.Ā Perhaps you would be better off finding some way to embrace your new nature, instead of fighting it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 4 hours ago, Lila9 said: They are treated like a terrorist state because they have committed and still commiting terror attacks. It's not out of nowhere Ā Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 (edited) 4 hours ago, Lila9 said: There is no evidence that Israel deliberately targets Palestinian civilians. Ā Edited January 17, 2024 by zazen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 (edited) @Lila9Ā Everyone here talks from his or her trauma and childhood experience and this is what determines theirĀ side in this conflict basically. The fact though is that Israel did everything to avoid this war. From a billion dollarsĀ smart fence, through 1000s of work permission to Gazans in Israel and millions of dollar poured on Gaza withĀ Israel permission. However Gaza was already saturated from wealth and money and could be the second Dubai, butĀ it didnt help since every dollar was directed into terror. Edited January 17, 2024 by Nivsch šĀ Spiral dynamics can be limited, or it can be unlimited if one's development is constantly reflected in itsĀ interpretation. Ā Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 @zazen This "massacare" list is fake and unreliable. And how do I know that? Because Israel surgical operations (~70% surgicality in average which is very good given hamas tactic) in the last 15 years are also displayed there as "massacare" š Pure absurdity š šš”šŖ šĀ Spiral dynamics can be limited, or it can be unlimited if one's development is constantly reflected in itsĀ interpretation. Ā Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 (edited) 1 hour ago, Nivsch said: @zazen This "massacare" list is fake and unreliable. And how do I know that? Because Israel surgical operations (~70% surgicality in average which is very good given hamas tactic) in the last 15 years are also displayed there as "massacare" š Pure absurdity š šš”šŖ True, the word massacre implies large scale killing which isnāt the case for all of these āincidentsā if thatās a better word. The point is thereās been attacks from both sides which debunks the October 7th happening out of nowhere claim. Operation protective edge in 2014 killed 1ā400 civilians of which 500 were children compared to 33 children on October 7th (15 times more) I donāt mean to compare numbers in such a crude way but itās to make the point that people can understand why Israel is angry after October 7thĀ Ā but this understanding doesnāt come much from the Israeli side to why the Palestinians would be angry after Israeli operations. Ā https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20160720_fatalities_in_gaza_conflict_2014 The civilian rate for the last 15 years differs between IDF and UN numbers. IDF have been shown to lie many times in the past and come out later to admit to things theyāve done. Iām not sure why many human rights groups or UN would lie - what could they all have against Israel. Itās not like all of them can be anti-Semitic or Hamas cooperatives. I can only go by what 3rd partyĀ groups say rather than trust either IDF or Hamas due to bias. Here are numbers from UN for each operation the last 15 years: 2008 - 1ā150 (60% civilian) / 3 Israeli civilians killed 2012 - 100 killed (60% civilian) /Ā 4 Israeli civilians killed 2014 - 2ā251 killed (65% civilian) / 6 Israeli civilians killed 2018 - 1 commander, 2 civilians killed (66%) , 0 Israeli civilians killed (thankfully not many deaths in this operation as it was a small covert one) Regarding October 7th: As all Israelis take part in the army and become citizen-reservists couldnāt it be that Israel can also claim that their soldiers who die are also civilians. Like the outpost near the border that Hamas attacked on October 7th - they were stationed there as guards but labelled civilians at the same time. ThisĀ can be used almost as a human shield to portray any attack from Palestinians as a civilians attack. Likewise the settlement expansion can be used as a political human shieldĀ against a future Palestinian state. Edited January 17, 2024 by zazen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 (edited) š¾šŖ Hundreds of thousandsĀ been killed in Yemen but nobody cares not in the western world nor here. šøš¾ Bashar Al Assad killed more muslims then the sum of the peopleĀ been killed in all of the conflicts between Israel and Muslims since 1947 but not the world nor here there is a caring that is even a hundredthĀ of how we care when it comes to Israel palestine conflict when the casualties is less than 1% than the cases above. What is the conclusion? A bias against Israel. š "But we hold Israel to higher standarts!" But it doesn't answer the question why you still don'tĀ show your pain in link-trees or angryĀ statementsĀ when people are killed in other Arab countries. I thought that you just careĀ about theĀ people who are suffering or killed. The answer is then: You aren't interested inĀ those poor people, not nearly as much as you are interested in Israel's situation and most likely not in her favor. Edited January 17, 2024 by Nivsch šĀ Spiral dynamics can be limited, or it can be unlimited if one's development is constantly reflected in itsĀ interpretation. Ā Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 Brilliant journalism, filmed last month from one of Gaza's safe zones. Actual applaudable journalism. The tragedy is that so much has changed since then. So much has changed in just 3 weeks. Ā Ā Ā Ā Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 Ā Same journalist from the video posted above, but her latest update. Video taken today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 (edited) @kenwayĀ This is an uttetly demagogic post. ~40% of the casualties are hamasĀ combatants. Rate doesn't mean anything but the duration over a long time in the context of the intentions. Obviously when there are 130 hostages there the speed of the war will be maximized. Edited January 17, 2024 by Nivsch šĀ Spiral dynamics can be limited, or it can be unlimited if one's development is constantly reflected in itsĀ interpretation. Ā Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 10 minutes ago, Nivsch said: @kenwayĀ This is an uttetly demagogic post. ~40% of the casualties are hamasĀ combatants. Rate doesn't mean anything but the duration over a long time in the context of the intentions. Obviously when there are 130 hostages there the speed of the war will be maximized. A normal country doesn't rescue 130 hostages by invoking Hiroshima on to a population of 2.1 million, half of whom are children. If you don't understand that, then I don't know what to tell you. Ā Ā Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 (edited) @kenway hamas is to blame in that we cornered to do our best to rescue our hostages, and the citizens casualities are still not intentional.Ā Sorry to tell you. Exactly what you would do if yourĀ friends or family wereĀ held hostage. Edited January 17, 2024 by Nivsch šĀ Spiral dynamics can be limited, or it can be unlimited if one's development is constantly reflected in itsĀ interpretation. Ā Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 (edited) @NivschĀ you guys (anyone still supporting whatever that's going on) are up for a rude awakening, whether you realize it now or in 50 years, but Israel's image and reputation has been broken for years to come and no amount of justification will fix that. Edited January 17, 2024 by lina Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 (edited) @lina If a baby from your village was burned aliveĀ and some ofĀ your friends orĀ family would taken hostages with a gun to their head every day for 100 days you would do exactly the same as Israel and chasing those murderers with the maximum pressure possible until you bring them back. Edited January 17, 2024 by Nivsch šĀ Spiral dynamics can be limited, or it can be unlimited if one's development is constantly reflected in itsĀ interpretation. Ā Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 Ā 1 hour ago, kenway said: A normal country doesn't rescue 130 hostages by invoking Hiroshima on to a population of 2.1 million, half of whom are children. It's not just 130 hostages. The existence of hamas implies there would be thousands more hostages, rapes and kidnappings as much as Israel is willing to tolerate long into the future. At one point, they decide enough is enough. Also those children are the reason hamas even exist. They need to operate in children's hospital so that they wouldn't be taken out. None of this would have happened it they came to fight upfront without being such cowards using children as human shields.Ā Does that justify killing thousands of children? No. But there would be killings anyway. This would put an end to all this. There is no peaceful ending. The tunnel networks should be destroyed and the city infrastructure rebuilt well once again for civilians and some international body setup to protect the rights of Palestinians.Ā Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 1 hour ago, Nivsch said: citizens casualities are still not intentional False. Since 2006, it isĀ standard practice for Israel to intentionally killĀ civiliansĀ including women and children. It has no moral issue in doing thisĀ because it regards the Palestinians as being an inferior people, and in any case the Palestinians represent a demographic threat to the stability of the Israeli-Nazi ethnostate. The targetting of women and children in particular, along with schools, hospitals, refugee camps, journalists and aid workers, is designed primarily to overwhelm the population, with the hope of creating enough terror and dystopia to force the residents to leave voluntarily. Even before Hamas came to power in 2006, Israel would routinely fly fighter jets over Gaza City at 3 in the morning, breaking the sound barrier,Ā thereby creating a sonic boom to terrorise the citizens into thinking they were under attack. A daily occurrence, making sleep practically impossible. The modern-day drones share a similar psychological benefit, along with the obvious benefit of surveillance andĀ reconnaissance. The present dayĀ genocide is merely the apogee, but with 85% of homes destroyed in 100 days, is designed to be terminal. The direct and intentional killing of civilians is an obvious component to the genocide, but more strategically serves as an extension of the previous psychological operations, this time forcing them to the south, close to the Philadelphi Route and the Egyptian border where they will eventually be flushed out to the desert on mass.Ā Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 (edited) @kenway You are inventing now a narrative based on fragments ofĀ cases in the periphery thatĀ do not have any connection to your story you are forcefully trying to compose. I won't co-operate with this and I can't compete with imaginary ideas. You are free to think whatever you want anyway. Edited January 17, 2024 by Nivsch šĀ Spiral dynamics can be limited, or it can be unlimited if one's development is constantly reflected in itsĀ interpretation. Ā Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Bobby_2021 said: It's not just 130 hostages. The existence of hamas implies there would be thousands more hostages, rapes and kidnappings as much as Israel is willing to tolerate long into the future. At one point, they decide enough is enough. Also those children are the reason hamas even exist. They need to operate in children's hospital so that they wouldn't be taken out. None of this would have happened it they came to fight upfront without being such cowards using children as human shields.Ā Does that justify killing thousands of children? No. But there would be killings anyway. This would put an end to all this. There is no peaceful ending. The tunnel networks should be destroyed and the city infrastructure rebuilt well once again for civilians and some international body setup to protect the rights of Palestinians.Ā šššš„ Edited January 17, 2024 by Nivsch šĀ Spiral dynamics can be limited, or it can be unlimited if one's development is constantly reflected in itsĀ interpretation. Ā Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 17, 2024 4 minutes ago, Nivsch said: I won't co-operate with this. Ā Fine, let's play a game instead. Pretend that a well organised group of terroristsĀ have kidnapped 130 civilians and are keeping them hostageĀ somewhere in Tel Aviv. Your job is to save the hostages. Do you:- A) Bomb the place to fuck, destroying 85% of Tel Aviv homes, killing over 25,000 Tel Aviv citizens, killing over 12,000 Tel Aviv children, and allowing the remainder of the Tel Aviv population to starve to death, meanwhile securing the release of zeroĀ hostages.Ā or B) Something else. Ā Take as much time as you need. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites