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Re:Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Peg... by VictorPath on Monday November 08, 2021 @08:54AM (#29149273)
Israel launched over 900 attacks on Gaza in May, killed hundreds of Palestinians, and displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians. The UN estimate is 461 housing and commercial units were destroyed by Israel's bombing of Gaza.

I don't dispute even more could have been killed by Israel and more destroyed by Israel if the United Nations Security Council did not call for an ending to it and that if that did not happen "it wouldn't be a place anymore...not something anyone walks away from". People can go and look at the videotaped news reports from Gaza after the bombings and judge for themselves.

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Re:Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Peg... by seoaeu on Monday November 08, 2021 @09:35AM (#29149671)
A quick google search reveals that the US launched 2800000 ground attack missions during the Vietnam war, dropping 15000000000 pounds of bombs. That works out to an average of several hundred attacks per day for two decades.

I also encourage you to look at Wikipedia's List of ongoing armed conflicts [1], which lists the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as a "Minor Conflict" given its scale in comparison to the other entries.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...

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Re:Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Peg... by antod on Monday November 08, 2021 @05:22PM (#29155056)
Seems a bit over the top to use the Vietnam War as a benchmark for the size of any bombing campaign, unless the benchmark is going for "largest ever by quite a margin".
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Re:Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Peg... by rhizome on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @01:35AM (#29171751)
You're indulging in the fallacy of relative privation and trying to change the subject for some reason.
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Re:Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Peg... by bawolff on Monday November 08, 2021 @09:04AM (#29149377)
I'm not saying there wasn't an armed conflict or that people didn't die. Just when people say something was mass bombed it implies something very different.
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Re:Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Peg... by LegitShady on Monday November 08, 2021 @11:20AM (#29150866)
there were fewer people killed than bombs dropped - it was a highly pinpointed affair beyond any sort of 'mass bombing' terminology, while at the same time the government of gaza WAS mass launching artillery rockets at israeli cities.

Truly upside-down world.

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Re:Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Peg... by devcpp on Monday November 08, 2021 @05:08PM (#29154905)
You can't expect Hamas to declare ceasefire after every attack then violate it again and Israel to just stand idle.
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Re:Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Peg... by seoaeu on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:34PM (#29153255)
And vice versa. At the moment, Hamas' desired strategy seems to be to launch a salvo of rockets and then demand a ceasefire until they can reload for the next salvo
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