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Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by eirini1 on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @05:25PM (#47144171)
> While the IDF unquestionably committed various war crimes over the course of the conflict anyway, the bulk of what people found objectionable very well might have been done in total accordance with international law.

I think this is somewhat out of touch, the main reason this conflict has garnered so much attention is the amount of times Isreal commits war crimes.

Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by wk_end on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @05:29PM (#47144235)
Let's suppose it could be demonstrated conclusively that every hospital in Gaza that Israel has bombed had Hamas militants operating out of them, as Israel has claimed. Do you think that'd silence Israel's critics about bombing hospitals? Do you think it should?
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by worik on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @08:24PM (#47146096)
> Do you think it should?

No.

This is asymmetrical warfare

The only route Israel has to victory, now, is genocide. They need to stop and make peace before they earn a place with Pol Pot and Stalin as genociders

Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by joe_mamba on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @03:28AM (#47148870)
>before they earn a place with Pol Pot and Stalin as genociders

What makes you think Israel cares about a label more than conquest via genocide? Did the Nazis care about being called genocidal? If you want to stop IL you need to do it via force.

Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by mvdtnz on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @07:18AM (#47150565)
This is nonsense. The total annihilation of Hamas and disarmament of Gaza would be sufficient for Israel and you know it.
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by manyaoman on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @08:08AM (#47151017)
Even if that’s true, I can’t blame Gazans for refusing to become slaves.
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by naasking on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @08:57AM (#47151519)
The OP said "destruction of Hamas and disarmament of Gaza" would suffice. Does that necessarily entail slavery?
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by manyaoman on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:34AM (#47153852)
Nothing is certain, but it seems likely since Palestinians in the West Bank don’t have basic freedoms either despite no Hamas presence.
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by cess11 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @09:27AM (#47151923)
Why would the israelis prefer to deal with PIJ through some temporary disarmament?

Anyone who listens for a bit to israeli mass media will soon be convinced that anything but the extermination of the palestinians is not enough. This is why they bulldoze everything archeological that does not play into zionist myth making. This is also why apartheid is common in local politics in Israel, and why the zionist guerillas and later IDF systematically destroyed the homes and property of the people they displaced, long before the appearance of Hamas.

As I usually do, I'd also like to remind that the zionist movement is mainly a movement of christians.

Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by throwaway3060 on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @05:49PM (#47144501)
If that was true, then why does it seem this conflict has gotten much more attention than the Russia-Ukraine war, which is on a much larger scale?
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by ceejayoz on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @05:51PM (#47144534)
The power imbalance probably plays a role.

Certainly no one's donating Patriot batteries and F-16s to Gaza.

(I'm also not sure I'd consider the Russia/Ukraine war to be… undercovered in the press.)

Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by magic_hamster on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @07:10PM (#47145447)
The only country out of the four mentioned who was given a donation of arms is Ukraine.
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by ceejayoz on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @07:52PM (#47145839)
That’s a gutsy claim. Delusional, but gutsy.

https://www.ajc.org/news/what-every-american-should-know-abo...

Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by cess11 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @09:31AM (#47151983)
It has been going on for a century or so. It is also a crime of occidental states. One could also argue that Palestine, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen and more places are in interconnected violent processes, where the 'axis' of Israel, the US, UAE, UK and allies are perpetrating heinous crimes without any semblance of accountability.
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by throwaway3060 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @10:55AM (#47153243)
For much of that time frame, the Soviets were also meddling in the Middle East. That the middle east conflicts were themselves part of the Cold War rather than something unrelated, is knowledge that has gone forgotten in the West, I think.
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by cess11 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @12:54PM (#47155058)
Yeah, bad soviets, financing and arming decolonial movements and so on.
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by throwaway3060 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @02:05PM (#47156203)
Soviets who murdered millions of people.

Will those decolonial movements then accept complicity, even if reluctantly, for all the peoples the Soviets oppressed and even genocided?

Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by cess11 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @04:46PM (#47158388)
It's obviously better to live under genocidal occupiers than being helped towards independence by a less genocidal federation, I see that now.
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by throwaway3060 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @04:56PM (#47158524)
Less genocidal federation? That is quite the claim.

The Soviets starved millions of people to death, in order to secure their control. All that help was then built on the backs and blood of those victims. At least let's be honest about that much.

Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by cess11 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:38AM (#47164682)
Is it? I'd bet it is vastly outpaced by british, belgian, german and other genocides.
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ... by throwaway3060 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @10:00AM (#47167021)
If you're going to go pre-20th century, Russia has the dubious distinction of having waged the most "total" recorded genocide in history, the Circassian genocide.

Just because you haven't heard of Russia colonizing doesn't mean it didn't happen just as much. It just wasn't where the other imperial empires were. How else would one city come to a rule a continent-sized territory? A big difference is, they didn't keep records of such things. People picture Siberia as an empty wilderness and have no idea that rich societies once lived there.