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[–] 48 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I feel terrible for every citizen killed or made homeless/jobless because of this.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    If they voted for Netanyahu they asked for it, and I have no sympathy.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Fun fact: every citizen of the entity is considered a reservist so there ARE no civilians! If you're a settler you're a valid target no matter what!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Idk man. If you’re a child, a unhoused, or a otherwise a person without the economic means to leave because your ancestors were settlers and you just so happened to be born in the colonized land, I’d consider you a civilian. I think your view is too black and white.

    Screw you if you’re a deliberate Zionist benefiting from genocide though.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Israelis aren't walled in and prevented from leaving like Palestinians are in Gaza.

    Israelis have no practical excuse to continue their occupation, especially when everyone is forced to serve in the IDF to actively aid the occupation rather than just passively.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    As long as they are not on active duty, they shouldn't be targets. And if they are forced to serve, they should still only be killed if they are an active threat. Normally, they should first be offered to surrender.

    Hope you're acting ironic and do not actually call to genocide all Jews in Israel.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I don’t want to talk ethics, but as a rule of thumb, winning a war is easier if you take out strategic targets than if you target civilians. Targeting civilians is what you do if your weapons aren’t precise enough to target tanks/planes etc.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Shouldn't be a citizen on stolen land.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don't think they care much. Or about anything except themselves for that matter.
    The most navel staring country on the planet

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The reason the US supports Israel is exactly because Israel is a settler-colony. They're part of the same genocidal settler project, Zionism is Manifest Destiny.

    If landback wins in Israel the ones paying attention know that it's coming for them too.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    It's also a geographically beneficial located proxy.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    But they didn't have to make a colony of European settlers to do that, did they? Egypt is a loyal collaborator with the US and it fulfills the same geostrategic goals, but the amount of support Egypt gets pales in comparison to Israel. Why is that?

    We can't dismiss the ideological importance of Israel. The unlimited support of the 51st state is exactly because it is a settler-colony.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't see many ethnic Egyptians in places of power that can influence policy or get laws voted concerning their country.
    Egypt hasn't always been loyal, certainly not the population.
    They overthrew the previous puppet despite US efforts to keep him in place.
    When they saw it was hopeless they threw him under the bus and 'supported' the arab spring movement.
    In reality they hijacked the revolution and simply put another puppet in place.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Settler-colonialism isn't just about who is in power (although it is about that). That's just regular colonialism, like French Algeria.

    Settler-colonialism is about importing settlers to replace the indigenous population while enacting genocidal policies to exterminate or expell the indigenous population. Egypt isn't experiencing that.

    That's why Egypt doesn't get the level of support that Israel does.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I don't. I only feel terrible for the ones who were opposed to these attacks on other countries. Most of them (if the statistics I've seen are to be believed) support the actions, so they deserve the consequences. Maybe these people dying horrifically will finally make others consider the value of lives.

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