• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    6 months ago

    I keep asking pro-Israel people here on Lemmy what the maximum number of children that they feel it is necessary to sacrifice in this war.

    I get two answers, usually both together:

    1. Hamas is the one killing the children.
    2. If this was your country, you would kill lots of children too.

    And they expect me to accept those answers as if they were true.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I keep asking pro-Israel people here on Lemmy what the maximum number of children that they feel it is necessary to sacrifice in this war.

      You’ve got to see this from the Israeli perspective: An inside look at a terrorist group’s summer camp for kids

      This is quite literally how they see the world. Every child in Rafa is this child. Every adult is a terrorist cell leader. Every refugee is going to want revenge. Every survivor is going to join the next revolt.

      Its the same logic American colonists used on First Nations people, as they carved their way westward. Its the logic Serbians used as they butchered their way through Bosnia. Its the logic American soldiers used in Hadditha and Kandahar. Children are just tiny future evil adults and killing them is right because they are incapable of doing anything but wrong.