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Originally Posted by opendoor
If it's an exact comparison, how do you explain civilians dying at about 10x the rate in Gaza vs Mosul? What did the US and Iraq do in Mosul that Israel isn't doing in Gaza to prevent civilian deaths?
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As Cliff says, one big reason is the US was able to take their time.
Also, civilians in Mosul were far more motivated to get out. Hamas has a lot of support in Gaza, and given the time they have had to entrench themselves, it isn't hard to understand why less civilians would leave, and any kind of action by Israel will result in more casualties.
But to not be able to differentiate between Israel ending up killing innocent civilians because of the situation on the ground in Gaza, and thinking they are intentionally killing civilians just speaks to ignorance to the situation on the ground as I mentioned above, and quite frankly is only being said because someone is not willing to admit that Hamas shares a massive portion of the blame, and THEIR actions are leading to innocent civilian death. Just like the actions of ISIS lead to innocent civilian deaths, even if those deaths were at the hands of US attacks.
Which of course isn't surprising, because the same people out there claiming Israel is intentionally killing innocents people are likely the same people marching in the streets of Toronto carrying ISIS flags and shouting death to all Jews. And for some reason Canada and the West hasn't woken up to this reality, and isn't deporting these people back to where they came from ASAP.
I guess we'll wait until they go from terrorist supporters marching in the streets, to actual terrorists carrying out acts of terrorism, and THEN we'll sit and wonder how did it ever get to this.