German Hostage Found Dead

[Dill]

(12-19-2023, 05:59 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Actually, I do consider shooting people trying to surrender a war crime, and at the same time NOT the equivalent of planned torture and and gang rape. But since I am not making that equivalence I don't need to answer for it.  Again, your premise here is that MENTION of IDF war crimes is AUTOMATICALLY "equivalence."  

No, drawing an equivalence is.  Like accusing the IDF of deliberately bombing a hospital in an attempt to make them Hamas' equal regarding treatment of civilians.

I haven't yet accused the IDF of deliberately bombing a hospital. I am arguing against any presumption they would not, given their past history. Until I say the IDF is likely to commit mass rape of Palestinians, murdering the victims afterward, and film the entire process to send to the victims family, then I am not creating an "equivalence" between Hamas and the IDF in its present form, even if the IDF does bomb a hospital. 

Your fear of equivalence here could be partly sincere, given your lack of awareness of the IDF's brutal history in Palestine and Lebanon. 
But there's no good incentive to keep that lack going, or to inhibit others from gaining it--only fear of collapsing your black/white ideological framing.