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In reply to the discussion: You can't help but notice that HAMAS hasn't shown up to protect Gazans [View all]
LeftInTX
(34,031 posts)127. They're not suicidal, they're martyrcidal.
It's sorta like the Japanese in WWII.
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You can't help but notice that HAMAS hasn't shown up to protect Gazans [View all]
no_hypocrisy
Aug 2025
OP
Sad, but true, and now he has a bloodthirsty partner in the president of our country
Walleye
Aug 2025
#66
A 3rd of all Americans are on Twitter - over 100 million Americans are on Twitter & 52 million of them are Dems
womanofthehills
Aug 2025
#91
"HAMA'S premise for war both accepted and approved of the fact that civilians would be sacrificed in horrific numbers.
betsuni
Aug 2025
#3
It's not unusual to talk about media figures in that way. And he's only posted 5 or 6 times, so
Crunchy Frog
Aug 2025
#96
Yes, clearly praising high death toll as a "welcome sacrifice" and do nothing to protect them or stop the war.
betsuni
Aug 2025
#57
Well, Hamas is a vile terrorist regime that should be wiped out to its last member.
Orrex
Aug 2025
#4
Why do you believe there were "operational bases under hospitals and schools"?
AloeVera
Aug 2025
#12
Obviously that intelligence data was not validated by after-the-fact facts on the ground.
AloeVera
Aug 2025
#32
Israel did lie. It lied about the advanced, multi-story, well-equipped "Command and Control Centre" it touted.
AloeVera
Aug 2025
#43
Intelligence is not evidence and neither is a 10+year old questionable article with low journalistic standards.
AloeVera
Aug 2025
#87
Why are you denying the existence of operational bases and other military assets under hospitals and schools?
Beastly Boy
Aug 2025
#17
They also claim that Israel had a "starvation plan" in place in October 2023.
lapucelle
Aug 2025
#28
I hope you realize how batshit incredulous your analogy is. Hamas would never get anywhere near a Tel Aviv hospital
Beastly Boy
Aug 2025
#90
A simple adherence to the laws of war would have been ample defense of civilians.
Beastly Boy
Aug 2025
#16
Probably in part because Netanyahu would continue murdering civilians regardless
Orrex
Aug 2025
#137
Hamas is partly made up of fathers whose children and wife's were murdered by Israel.
womanofthehills
Aug 2025
#126
So, you are saying that the Israelis are bombing and shooting Gazan civilians and not Hamas.
Intractable
Aug 2025
#8
Not at all. The propblem is that their PRESENCE among civilians endangers them.
Beastly Boy
Aug 2025
#19
Yes, you quite literallt denied such thing. Read the header of your post 35.
Beastly Boy
Aug 2025
#51
I think you don't know what the hell you are talking about and are trying to split hairs over language.
Intractable
Aug 2025
#67
I am tired of repeating that ad hominem attacks are against DU terms of service.
Beastly Boy
Aug 2025
#68
We are all at odds with Hamas. Shame on you for thinking I think otherwise.
Intractable
Aug 2025
#114
Yes, Hamas is nowhere to be found while the IDF is shooting innocent people seeking food
Prairie Gates
Aug 2025
#10
How little we've heard about Hamas, and anything, at all, they've actually done to help Palestinians
dlk
Aug 2025
#11
Long term goals can be loosely defined as desired outcomes, but plans are more immediate
Martin Eden
Aug 2025
#49
"Zionist ethos" is entirely ideological, and it doesn't identify land parcels except in very general terms.
Beastly Boy
Aug 2025
#70
Do you expect me to gratuitously excoriate whoever you decide I should excoriate on demand?
Beastly Boy
Aug 2025
#136
There is only one entity that has the power to end the war IMMEDIATELY and UNILATERALLY: HAMAS
lapucelle
Aug 2025
#31
"...Gazans who are being shot and bombed while trying to get food to prevent starving to death."
J_William_Ryan
Aug 2025
#27
Why would they? They're accelerationists willing to torch Gaza to weaken Israel
0rganism
Aug 2025
#46
You can't help but notice that just 8% of Democrats support Israel's military campaign in Gaza
Rob H.
Aug 2025
#72
They want to die. They knew this would be the response after their horrible attack.
IronLionZion
Aug 2025
#131