Israel/Hamas War Superthread

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(03-03-2024, 07:51 PM)Dill Wrote: This embrace of pre-judgment as a standard is rather MORE interesting.

I feel like not pre-judging Hamas is more more interesting.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/middleeast/hamas-attack-body-cam-videos-invs-dg/

Quote:They show the slaughter of civilians, indiscriminate shooting in Israeli communities, and the taking of hostages — clear evidence of war crimes that undermines Hamas’ claims that its fighters did not enter Israel with the intent of killing civilians.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/horror-israeli-authorities-show-footage-hamas-atrocities-reporters-notebook/story?id=104015431

Quote:At a playground, he wonders in Arabic, "Where are the kids?" The duo set fire to one house, shoot an encroaching dog, and shoot another old man through a darkened screen. They are parsimonious with their ammunition, and chillingly unhurried as they pick through the tidy vegetable gardens and open the latches of wooden fences.

Then the video gets grisly. Other militants are busy mashing a dying man's face with their boots. Another pair screams "Allahu akbar" as they use a garden hoe to try to decapitate another man.

In another house, a gunman sticks the muzzle of his rifle into a room inhabited by a family. It's a mash of colors. In one, a terrorist is standing on an Israeli man's chest and shoots him point-blank in the face.

Then, the scenes of bloodied bedrooms start to blur. The rooms and the gore are the same -- it's how the bodies are arrayed in death that's different. There are so many children. Some are jam-packed together in a slippery mass of human flesh. Huge blood stains streak the tiles.

The people who run into civilian populations with the express intent of raping and/or murdering civilians specifically, beheading and burning children and babies... pretty safe to pre-judge as untrustworthy folks.

You, uh, really seem to like defending Hamas.