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Prairie Gates

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12. This gambit where the Israelis demand people "evacuate" is not really a thing

Reply to cliffside (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 01:47 AM

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Killing civilians is a war crime, whether you "asked them to evacuate" or not.

Forced displacement is also a war crime.

I don't know why the press and pro-Israel liberals continue to pretend that forced displacement of civilian populations inoculates the IDF and the Israeli state apparatus from war crimes. It does not. It is a war crime in itself.

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