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Re: by southernplaces7 on Sunday October 05, 2025 @09:24PM (#45486769)
If you sincerely believe the grotesquely distorted nonsense you've written above, you're as much a deluded, fanatical lunatic in support of Israeli state propaganda as the fanatics of Hamas are in support of their own justifications and extremism.

You state that nothing justifies the slaughter of innocent civilians, then proceed to state as much garbage as possible justifying the slaughter of innocent civilians on a massive scale.

Bypassing specific rebuttals to the majority of what you've spewed, i'll put things more simply in this way:

The October 7th attack, as brutal and vicious as it was, could have been dealt with in ways that don't involve pulverizing an entire enclave, killing tens of thousands of its people and then also starving said devastated enclave until thousands more (including little children) starve.

Gaza at no point represents or represented such a risk to Israel that this kind of savagely barbaric, murderous response was even necessary.

Said response was not only a disaster for Israel's tattered reputation in the world, it has been pointless across the board, and has done essentially nothing to help the hostages, the security of Israel or for that matter the families of the October 7th victims.

Israel is more than capable strategically, tactically, technologically of avenging what Hamas did and countering future attempts at similar without slaughtering, starving and bombing civilians in ways that more closely resemble the SS response to the 1944 Warsaw Ghetto uprising than they do any notion of measured national defense.

Re: by tomhow on Monday October 06, 2025 @02:09AM (#45488131)
> If you sincerely believe the grotesquely distorted nonsense you've written above, you're as much a deluded, fanatical lunatic

You can't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to. The guidelines call on us us to make our points without using abusive terms like this. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html