Israel/Hamas War Superthread

[Dill]

(03-02-2024, 06:13 PM)GMDino Wrote: Step one:  Establish that the enemy hides among the civilians.  It's impossible to tell them apart even when in close combat.
Step two: Make is "acceptable" to kill civilians who are just "casualties" in the war.
Step three: Deny the events happened as reported because the "enemy" will always lie.  A good, Democratic nation would not!
Step four: "Review" the incident for however long you think it will take the world to forget about it.
Repeat as necessary until you realize you have to kill every man woman and child to "defeat" the enemy and you withdraw.
Oh, wait...that was Vietnam.  
Not sure it applies here.  

The bolded is the key here. 

It's a way of "controlling the narrative" as they say; that and the claim "they embed themselves in civilians"--so what can you do?

The Vietnam reference is apt. LOL I remember when one of John Kerry's "Swift Boaters" was on Ted Koppel claiming we could not
believe the testimony of a Vietnamese peasant corroborating Kerry because he was from a "Communist Totalitarian" country.

Another factor, historically, is the difference in race and culture. Europeans and North Americans have
often applied separate laws of war to non-Europeans, or abandoned just war limitations altogether. The U.S. had difficulty with
that long before Vietnam, and European colonists long before that. So Israel has, like the US, been divided over to whom
and whether International Humanitarian Law should apply.