@Noflaps said in #42:
> Are you saying that Isarel is trying to kill civilians on purpose? Israel held off for weeks, and gave warnings, before beginning to attack in Gaza. Indeed, they were criticized for waiting so long to retaliate. Remember? And I suspect that if Israel were really trying to kill civilians, there would be many more dead, even though the war has been ugly and sad, and I sincerely mourn the losses on both sides.
It's not only me who is saying Israel is killing civilians on purpose; It's everyone who says Israel is killing civilians on purpose.
Gaza is being bombed to death while civilians are still there. And I've seen with my eyes people with limbs missing.
This is unjustifiable no matter how many times the word "Hamas" gets used. This cannot be a retaliatory attack to Oct. 7th; Come on, if you really want to target Hamas, you do an organised military operation to take down Hamas and then let Gaza alone. You do not bombard an entire city and write the name of pro-Palestinian people on the rockets you're about to send.
> But the kids who were murdered on October 7 were just kids. At a music festival. With no military purpose or significance. If that hadn't happened there'd be no conflict right now. Just the start of a pleasant summer. Does anybody really think otherwise?
Why does anyone I've faced a discussion with so far always bring up the massacre in the music festival when it's about Israel/Palestine?!?
Why no one here speaks about Oct. 6th? Or Oct. 5th? Or the 1948 نكبة Nakba? Or the entire 76 years period of oppression from zionist forces motivated by zionism and anti-Arab racism?
> How many more attacks of that nature must Israel endure before making sure that those who plan and organize such attacks cannot be in power? Any thoughts? Has that yet been guaranteed? Any realistic, nonmilitary ways to prevent the repetition of such attacks? Really? How?
You go and take down Hamas inside the city, instead of bombing them.
You go and organise forces in order to eliminate those who plan and organise such attacks directly, face to face.
And that's it. Problem solved for you.