Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
by yread on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:36PM
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I admire the clarity of your moral compass. But consequently if that is ok, then targeting reservists is also ok, right? And since almost everyone in Israel is a reservist there are really no civilians in Israel only military targets, right? So, Hamas an Hezbollah blindly firing rockets are actually striking military targets with surgical precision
Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
by dijit on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:52PM
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Gets muddy with conscripts.
Gets decidedly less muddy with volunteers and officers.
Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
by IAmGraydon on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @11:30PM
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The problem for your “argument” comes when you apply the harsh light of actual fact to it. Israel has 169,500 active personnel and 465,000 reservists. This represents 6.6% of their population. Furthermore, those age 18-40 can be called up in a national emergency just as most countries can call up a draft. This is not the same as reservists and still represents a fraction of the population.
Attempting to pass off as fact that everyone in Israel is a reservist and are therefore legitimate targets is simple disinformation. You already knew that, though. But hey - you had a point to make, right?
Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
by yread on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @02:55AM
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I probably haven't used the right term, I thought reservists are people who went through military service. This article (with obvious agenda)
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/the-myth-of-compulsory-militar...
says that the enlistment rate plummeted from 75% to 50%.
This more recent (and accurate?) article based on actual numbers puts it at 69%: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/art...
So, >every other person in Israel has gone through military service. If you compare that to "collateral damage" when killing Hamas' terrorists, shooting rocets blindly is more accurate
I am more pro-Israel in these conflicts, but you are a military target or you aren't, you don’t leave the military when you remove the uniform, only when you agree to leave the military.
In fact it is a common tactic of Hamas, when it is discovered they have passionately murdered civilians, that they immediately claim that it was an IDF soldier. Such as the case with Shanni Louk