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A) It's hard to argue that the war in Gaza was indiscriminate when the IDF achieved the highest combatant-to-civilian casualty ratio in the history of urban com
by settrans 1y ago
A) It's hard to argue that the war in Gaza was indiscriminate when the IDF achieved the highest combatant-to-civilian casualty ratio in the history of urban combat, despite Hamas hiding in tunnels underneath population centers.
B) When soldiers flood across your border from a neighboring polity by the thousands, it would be an abdication of sovereignty not to defend against that immediate threat, regardless of the enemy's funding sources.
- breadwinner 1y ago> highest combatant-to-civilian casualty ratio Very hard to believe.
- settrans 1y agoLet's ask the world's leading expert in urban warfare, then: https://www.newsweek.com/israel-has-created-new-standard-urban-warfare-why-will-no-one-admit-it-opinion-1883286 https://www.newsweek.com/israel-has-created-new-standard-urb... https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnwspencer2018_israel-has-done-more-to-prevent-civilian-activity-7192388569791930368-8RRL https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnwspencer2018_israel-has-d... Note the falsification of Hamas casualty figures: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hamas-quietly-drops-thousands-deaths-122557133.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/hamas-quietly-drops-thousands-dea... https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-hamas-manipulates-gaza-fatality-numbers-examining-male-undercount-and-other https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-hama...
- ryoshoe 1y agoIt's actually quite believable when you define a combatant as males aged 13+