• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s only one point under discussion here: Israel is calling this a declaration of war after years of refusing to acknowledge Palestinian statehood.

    That means they’re playing the optics for a western audience in a self serving, hypocritical way. And geez it might take me an entire bathroom sit to assemble a list of more.

    Hamas doesn’t have a PR strategy for the west. They’re just attacking. It’s not right but at least it’s not theater.

    Let the American audience understand when they are being played to.

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      1 year ago

      Israel accepted the original plan to have an independent Palestinian state. Palestine rejected it and started the 1947 civil war in an attempt to exterminate the Jews living there.

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      That means they’re playing the optics for a western audience in a self serving, hypocritical way. … Hamas doesn’t have a PR strategy for the west. They’re just attacking. It’s not right but at least it’s not theater.

      I’m less worried about the hypocrisy and theatrics, than I am about civilian deaths.

      But you do you.

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        1 year ago

        You should be, because the u.s. will use this theater to justify sending huge amounts of military aid to Israel to level Gaza. Fuck Hamas but the u.s. sending more weapons over isn’t going to help this situation.

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          Gaza is something like 300km^2. Israel has more than enough to level it a thousand times over. They have hundreds of artillery pieces, hundreds of fighters, an entire navy, something like a thousand tanks, …

          Hell, given they likely have hundreds of nukes, they could level the entire middle-east and end global civilisation as we know it.

          The US giving Israel more military aid now, is politics. Not much more.