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Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by giraffe_lady on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:52PM (#38051340)
I just want you to always and forever remember and admit that this is what you were doing during this. Hemming and hawing about who you can call scum without quite admitting to yourself you're advocating for genocide. You can never pretend that you didn't know what we were doing, or that you meaningfully opposed it.
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Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by id00 on Saturday October 28, 2023 @02:04PM (#38052022)
I know what I'm doing, and I don't see myself advocating for genocide. Can you help me to understand where do you think I do that?
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Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by whatshisface on Saturday October 28, 2023 @03:00PM (#38052447)
The organization of the gunmen has created a situation where military victory comes at incalculable moral cost. Probably intentionally. It is a deep personal test to see which outcome one thinks means "letting them win."

Personally I do not believe it is conscionable to drop a bomb on a bank where the staff is being held hostage even if it would probably hit the robbers.

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Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by id00 on Saturday October 28, 2023 @05:06PM (#38053380)
There is a reason why most of governments don't negotiate with terrorists. Nothing good even came from other tactics in the long term.
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Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by whatshisface on Saturday October 28, 2023 @06:31PM (#38053999)
There's a huge difference between not rewarding hostage takers with ransom and killing the hostages to kill the ransomers.
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Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by id00 on Saturday October 28, 2023 @07:25PM (#38054438)
Agree, and I don't think Israel has a goal to kill hostages but to eleminate Hamas no matter the cost
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Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by whatshisface on Saturday October 28, 2023 @08:11PM (#38054694)
Sure, but if that comes at the cost of the hostages they're killing the hostages to kill the ransomers.
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