mwguy

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[–] mwguy -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I don't have the source for that easily reachable. It used to be a Google search away but all the keywords have been clogged by the most recent conflict.

I'll have to do some more digging to see if I can find it.

Does lemmy have a remind me bot?

[–] mwguy -2 points 2 years ago

I'm sure they don't and they have that right. But that being said "indiscriminate" sort of has a meaning and connotation.

And it's not that these bombings absolutely couldn't have been indiscriminate, however they either have to be the most incompetent military force on the planet to bomb a town of 4,000 people and kill 9 or truly God's chosen army to indiscriminately bombing a place and kill 10x military casualties for every civilian one.

[–] mwguy 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Last time the names of "Civilian" killed were released and online people started looking them up and seeing if they were part of Hamas. It started becoming a problem because they'd say things like, "Strike X killed 8 innocent civilians" and then a few weeks later they'd get asked why they categorized such and such as a civilian because he was a mber of Quassam etc... So they stopped releasing names.

[–] mwguy 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I wonder if this will work out like last time.

[–] mwguy 0 points 2 years ago

Per capital it's like 6 times the amount of aid Western Europe received in the Marshall Plan.

[–] mwguy 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

but I just really don't like bad data. It gets used for rhetoric all the time and it's exhausting to track down

Okay, but you're using no data for bad rhetoric.

[–] mwguy -4 points 2 years ago

They sort of do in this case. The reason the strike would be a war crime is that a refugee camp is explicitly civilian infrastructure. Under the conventions of war, explicitly civilian infrastructure is suppose to be spared from attack. And attacking it is a war crime.

When you co-locate military infrastructure there it loses it's protections as it's no longer explicitly civilian infrastructure. And a strike against it ceases to be a war crime.

[–] mwguy 0 points 2 years ago

They can trade, they just have to throw out the people stockpiling rockets for indiscriminate, offensive warfare actions.

Look at all the money they spent on tunnelling and digging up new water infrastructure. They could have spent that on improving the lives of it's citizens and choose not to.

[–] mwguy 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It seems more like if the number had agreed with your assertion instead of refuted it you'd have accepted the source as generally accurate.

[–] mwguy 0 points 2 years ago

Hamas wants peace

I'm going to need a source on this.

I think this would be news to most, including Hamas.

[–] mwguy 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lets then pretend I once again pointed out that Gaza has and has had the resources to build a vibrant prosperous future and this time you respond to it.

[–] mwguy -1 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately the real world isn't a movie studio.

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