ashirusnw

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by ashirusnw 7mo ago
I find it incredible that these isolated comments, of which even the various UN-backed panels can only find a handful quoted without context, is the basis for an evidence for an intent of genocide. Besides the fact that it's a very poo
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by ashirusnw 1y ago
It wasn't just him, all the governments for the last decade tried to keep the peace while enforcing the blockage but allowing cash for salaries, humanitarian aid etc which made Gaza flourish with hotels, restaurants, beach resorts and
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by ashirusnw 1y ago
Untrue. Your quoting total imports (eg concrete that was largely misappropriated to build Hamas tunnels). The amount of food delivery on average is comparable to before the war.
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by ashirusnw 2y ago
Accusation of genocide is simply ridiculous considering this was without question an entirely defensive war against an enemy Hamas who wanted to commit the same atrocity repeatedly and embedded itself in civilians. International law as it e
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by ashirusnw 2y ago
That's an very one-sided view, which entirely ignores that every single one of the Israeli wars were defensive (yes, including 1967 per historical consensus and eg https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0gl
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by ashirusnw 2y ago
I was pointing out that the simplistic theory that Netanyahu is at real risk of going to prison is not true. It's a view that's put out to turn Natenyahu into a "monster" and make it easy to glibly view the war as servin
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by ashirusnw 2y ago
"Netanyahu assembled a neo-Kahanist fringe coalition as a parliamentary maneuver to keep from losing his post, because it's widely believed he's going to end up in prison as soon as he leaves." It may be "widely bel
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
proportionality in laws of conflict also doesn't relate to numbers comparison at all
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
difference of 5000 fighters vs 12000 embedded civilians
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
Not OP, but it magically appeared by League of Nations (UN) vote in 1948. "Stealing land" is a very one-sided war to look at it. The legalities and mortality of land captured in self defence are debatable to some extent, but clea
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
None of those had a massacre like Oct 7 with 1200 dead (and as a proportion of Israeli population count that makes it proportionally more devastating than 9/11 for Israel, not too mention it was also more cold blooded and barbaric in m
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
It's impossible to describe Gaza 2005-2022 as indefinite subjugation. Quite the opposite. It could have become Singapore if not for Hamas.
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
The automated security provided a false sense of security but it turned out to be very vulnerable to a multi-pronged and carefully timed attack on a Jewish holiday. With careful planning, and a pretence of not being interested in attacking
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
I'm not aware. What are you talking about?
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
The 1967 borders, as strongly as they feature in all discussions, were never "agreed upon". Even the famous UN security council resolution 242 deliberately does not define those borders. Every peace discussion has used them as a b
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
What you're apparently referring to is slight change in Hamas charter in 1997. In fact, what they actually said was "Hamas advocates the liberation of all of Palestine but is ready to support the state on 1967 borders without rec
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
Not true. There have been serious peace attempts and real changes in every decade since 1967.
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
Israel supplies only a small percentage of Gaza water. Israel left in 2005, the "blockade" (which ignores the third border with Egypt) started in 2007 after Hamas seized control and Israel found itself with an enemy worse than Fat
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
Israel left Gaza, and uprooted its own citizens, in an attempt to follow the 1990s model of gradually letting Palestinians have self determination and seeing if it lead to a corresponding reduction in attacks and planning of Israeli destruc
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
You are not arguing honestly by claiming it's 55 "commanders" vs [inflated number] civilians. It's very likely the 2:1 ratio of civilian:Hamas is correct given the intense ground battle and that the 17-19K death toll cle
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
declassified documents revealed how in a 1987 meeting British officials raised the prospect of erecting a physical border along the entire frontier between Northern Ireland and the Republic The IRA is a good example of how to deal with te
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
The "blockade" was Israel protecting its borders once Hamas seized control. And it's not a blockade as one side borders Egypt. For much of the time, Israel allowed goods through the tough restrictions on what types of materia
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
Bizarre is viewing Israel as "oppressor" for disengaging entirely from Gaza, dismantling is own Israeli settlements despite massive protests by the seller movements, and only imposing a blockade once a terrorist group took absolut
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
Israelis don't view them as less than human, that's ridiculous and refuted by numerous polls and surveys of Israeli society. Israeli Arabs are represented in the knesset and have equal rights to any Israeli citizens. (Although in
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
No the 17-19000 figure includes Hamas fighters
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
If Hamas would take up a defensive stance, there would never be any conflict. The only reason Israel attacks has been in response to terrorism. You seem to view Hamas as just an extreme pro-Palestinian faction that's gone too far, but
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
> so of course during such a ceasefire Hamas would have to stop the rocket attacks as well During which Hamas would regroup, recover, and then be impossible to defeat and then would go on to commit another October 7th What should in fa
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
Nope. There are isolated reports which are of doctors in Gaza saying they have a seen burns that they estimate to be white phosphorus but (a) it's their guess it could be from any number of munitions/explosives (b) phosphorus used
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
If you want to keep the discourse HN-worthy then delete the last para. But btw apparently cctv footage showed women and children participating in Oct 7 massacre https://freebeacon.com/national-security/children-as-young
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
I don't speak Italian so can't do that but regardless of you have to find a former ambassador to Italy then you're scratching around, he was looking out of his post before any strategy of this war was fought and Israel was us

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