02-16-2024, 10:29 PM
(02-15-2024, 12:21 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: How do you not allow an armed gang of terrorists to conceal themselves among you? These guys are straight up animals and won't shrink from performing the most heinous acts against anyone who opposes them in the slightest. Unlike our citizenry, the people of Gaza are not armed, and have no ability to do so. They straight up cannot resist an armed terrorist group in any meaningful way.
I think you’re over thinking this to be honest. You might not realize it, but you already know the answer to your own question.
You asked, how do you not let an armed gang of terrorists conceal themselves among you when they’re a bunch of animals committing heinous acts of violence.
Well, you have two options.
The first option is you become the very thing I’ve been told Hamas is. You become freedom fighters seeking to overcome and defeat their tyrannical rulers that are limiting their way of life so that you can live freely and spread joy and peace abundantly. You say the people of Gaza are not armed like US citizens are. Well, find a way to get armed then.
Armed rebellions don’t start with people who already had a large cache of weapons stockpiled at their disposal and ready to go at a moment’s notice. Armed rebellions start when people are brave enough to stand for something, even if it means certain death. So, they start to band together. They start to devise plans. They start to develop tactics for how they will overcome their tyrannical rulers. They start to figure out how to arm themselves.
Farmers with pitch forks. Start there and figure it out.
You say they can’t resist in any meaningful way. Well, that depends on how one defines meaningful. I for one think it’s pretty meaningful to fight against tyranny and die, than to live in fear under tyranny and allow those tyrants to not only terrorize you and your family, but also commit genocide against another group of people and have you as their protection because you decided living under their tyrannical rule and letting them spread their tyranny is better than death. Some people would call that cowardice.
And don't take what I'm saying here as me portraying myself as some big brave dude that would stand up to Hamas. In all honesty I’m not sure what I would do.
What I do know however, is that if I were to accept my position as a "coward" and let them terrorize people instead of standing up to them, then I would also have to accept that my fate is in the hands of Hamas. If the people they’re terrorizing decided to retaliate and attempt to take them out, I would have to accept whatever fate is coming to me because I made the decision to live under tyranny and not pursue any of the two options before me.
Which leads me to option two.
You attempt to escape from them. You take your 3mph walking speed and go somewhere else. If 47 miles is two days, then how much is two more days? And two more days after that? Is escaping tyranny not worth 8 days of travel?
There’s no guarantee you’ll find another place to call home. Your objective is to run from the tyranny that has asked for the wrath of Israel to come upon it. You don't get to tell them what to do because it's your home. You chose to live under tyranny. Therefore, under tyranny you shall perish.
Again. This is not me saying this is an easy situation to be in. I don't think rebelling against people who are going to behead you is an easy thing to do. But you can do it if you choose to. In fact, many people have chosen to rebel against tyrants. And many of them have died. Many of them have been beheaded. Many of them have been burned alive. Many of them have been stoned. Hanged. Shot to death. But I wouldn't say their deaths were meaningless. Standing up to tyranny, even with just a pitchfork always has meaning. You might not be victorious, but you just might be the catalyst that starts a revolution like so many have already done in the past. It’s your choice.
Fight.
Run.
Or there’s the third option. Wait to die.
Quote:I understand what you're getting at in these posts, the problem is your condemning an entire population for the beliefs and actions of a percentage. What is this percentage? It would be a guess, but let's say 50% of Gazan resident support or belong to Hamas. You're treating all of them the same as the 50%. So even if avoiding civilian casualties was not a goal we strive for in modern warfare, you're killing a bunch of innocent people who oppose the regime that started this war. You can't tell who a Hamas supporter from a Hamas opponent unless they state their position in some way. So you can't just wantonly kill civilians and the assuage your conscious by saying they were all Hamas supporters/enablers.
Exactly.
You can't tell a Hamas supporter from someone who opposes Hamas.
Therefore, I suggest you do yourself a favor and get out of the way. If I don't know who to kill, what I am going to do is destroy any infrastucture I think they can use to further their genocidal cause. If you decide to stay there, that's the choice you live or die with.
I'm not condemning anyone for Hamas actions. What I am condemning, is the belief people have, to think that just because they call a place home and decide to live under tyranny, knowing that by doing so they are going to become human shields for their tyrants, which allows them to further carry out their tyranny, that they then get to decide how a military responds to attempted genocide. coming from the very home that they live in. That to me is absolutely insane.
