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[-] Chozo@fedia.io 92 points 2 months ago

Because it's a genocide. The point isn't to just take out Hamas and say "mission accomplished", it's to take out the entirety of Palestine and say "we tried our best to save them". Hamas has to continue existing in order for Israel to keep justifying every extension to this war.

[-] crashfrog@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

But then why commit any ground troops at all?

If they just wanted to wipe out Gaza they’d have done it on Oct 8th. Could hardly take more than an hour.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 13 points 2 months ago

If I had to guess, I'd say funding and plausible deniability are the big reasons. The longer the war wages on, the longer the US and other allies keep sending them money and weapons. And killing them off slowly makes it easier to argue to the ICC that you weren't trying to commit genocide, it just kinda happened as an oh-so-unfortunate side-effect of defending themselves.

[-] crashfrog@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

What “plausible deniability”?

If they spent two hours killing everyone in Gaza, it’d be over before anyone could do anything about it. And then what? Nobody’s going to war with a nuclear power in revenge for Gazans. Bibi just stops visiting Brooklyn and nothing happens.

But they don’t do that. The Jews of Israel bleed and die to save the lives of Gazans who hate them. I wouldn’t, but they do.

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It took the Germans a while to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto. The Zionists have killed 200,000 so far (according to the Lancet) and rendered all of Gaza uninhabitable.

[-] crashfrog@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It took the Germans a while to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto.

Only because they used starvation instead of air power. Israel sends 3500 calories to Gaza per Gazan per day; that’s more food per day than a person eats in Luxembourg.

The Zionists have killed 200,000 so far (according to the Lancet)

You surely mean “according to a letter someone sent to the Lancet, using a methodology that counts currently-living persons as “fatalities.”

[-] moe93@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

~~Israel~~ israhellonearth sends 3500 calories to Gaza per Gazan per day

Rockets and bullets don’t count.

[-] crashfrog@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Apparently food doesn’t either, if Jews send it

[-] moe93@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

I refuse to allow Zionists to hijack the Jewish faith for their distorted agenda. Stop straw manning the argument.

[-] crashfrog@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

You’re the one that brought this topic up, though. Like we’re talking about food aid in Gaza because you wanted to.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

If you believe that then I've got a pile of international NGO and UN reports you need to read.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Because they just might actually find some of the hostages. Also it's a great way to corral people and aid, and keep them separate.

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