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Originally Posted by SebC
Taking your statements at face value: Hamas knows that Israel will strike through the shield, yet they continue to deploy them. Hamas is perfectly happy to have 100 innocent Palestinians die if it means 100 innocent Palestinians die, because if they know their human shields to be ineffective then there is not another motive. Israel, at least, has a military objective, and lacks alternative means to destroy the rocket sites.
If you want to say "A" is "B" it is important to know what "B" is. But way to go for the ad hominem attack.
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To your first point, yes, of course. Hamas is a terrorist organisation. What motivation do you think they have to protect innocent people. Who would think any more of them than that? Are we sitting around pretending Hamas are the good guys here? Or do we have to say for the thousandth time that there are no good guys, point to the actual victims, and explain why Israel acting like/playing to every whim of a terrorist organisation and happily taking Hamas’s sacrifice of Palestinians is a problem? How many times do we have to go over this? How many is enough?
To your second, the world is slightly too complex for Merriam Webster to explain it all away, but by all means, like I said, have the debate if you want to have it.