10-31-2023, 12:35 PM
(10-31-2023, 12:02 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: This is one more example of the brutality of not just killing innocent Israelis on October 7th, but torturing, raping and beheading them.
I simply can't see how anyone can't condone Hamas's actions? I can't see how anyone can side with Palestinians actions?
This woman and others were celebrating peace at a music festival. I have a lot of words to describe Hamas, one bing cowards. They have may years to build a military, help build the Gaza infrastructure, but instead used money to build tunnels.
Now they run and hide in these tunnels.
They caused this war, they are the ones doing nothing to help Palestinians. Their actions put every Palestinian, man, woman and and child at risk of starvation and/or death by war.
They simply left Israel no choice by their cowardly acts without warning killing and kidnapping Israeli women, children, men and babies. Over 1400 killed in one day, not soldiers, but like our 9/11 innocent civilians.
What many fail to realize, or deliberately ignore, is that massive Palestinian casualties are Hamas's goal. They hide among the civilian population, they store munitions in sensitive places e.g. hospitals, schools and mosques. They do this to help ensure a steady stream of civilian casualties they can parade in front of staged cameras to paint Israel as barbaric and uncaring about civilian casualties. Every such death is a PR goal for them. In WW2 the Russian partisans would deliberately infiltrate columns of refugees and then shoot at German soldiers from them. The goal being to have the Germans retaliate against the refugee train, thus producing more partisans and enflaming the, initially receptive civilian population against the Germans. These tactics are not new.
The monstrous nature of the initial Hamas attacks was also intentional, so as to inflame Israeli anger and provoke a response they could then exploit in the media. The barbarism was a feature not a bug.
(10-31-2023, 12:20 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: If you freeze the video at 00:15, look at her right ankle. She was tied up. This is horrible on so many levels.
Indeed. And this is the key difference between these two sides, militarily. Hamas sees civilians as equal targets to military ones, they make no distinction. Israel does make such a distinction. Unfortunately civilian casualties are inevitable, literally unavoidable, but I do think Israel takes pains to limit them.
This all does make me wonder though. Would WW2 have concluded as it did if the modern media existed then? There would be daily videos of dead German and Japanese children, in the thousands, dwarfing the scenes coming out of Gaza. Something to consider.
