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Originally Posted by blankall

Assassinating and summarily executing political leaders on foreign soil is not international protocol. Israel would get in a ton of crap for that. What happens when inevitably foreign nationals get caught in the cross-fire? Is Qatar going to allow team of Israeli assassins onto their soil? Israel would have to trespass onto Qatari soil, probably with fake passports, then somehow get to guarded men there, without incurring any collateral damage.

Slow down and read these posts better, dude. You were defending pointman's heinous posting history because you didn't carefully read what he was writing and what people were responding to.

Now you're correcting me that assassinating political leaders on foreign soil is not international protocol - no ####. I specifically said I was in support of Israel doing that in violation of international protocol.

Yeah, nobody said this will be easy. You're going to have to slip into places, assassinate these guys and slip back out. Assassinations will have to look like accidents. No fk ups, boys.

I believe Israel can handle this. They've done it before with their Nazi hunting (or at least I saw a movie about that I think was based on a true story, IDK).

I like this way because it doesn't decimate the infrastructure of Gaza while murdering thousands of civilians. I'm quirky like that, though.

Originally Posted by blankall

So you're saying hiding behind your own civilians, including behind hospitals and schools is okay, as long as you feel you have to do it? Don't you think there's degrees of culpability here? Couldn't Hamas find a solution somewhere in between being in the wide open and storing hostages and leaders directly under civilian targets?

Am I saying it's okay? No, not really. I am saying it's rational.

Surely you'd concede Hamas is much weaker militarily than Israel, right? That's basic.

How, then, would Hamas amass any sort of military capability for defense (or offence) unless they did it underground/covertly?

Do I like that they're hiding amongst civilians? Of course not. I understand the strategy, though. It's, frankly, a good strategy - particularly when you aren't concerned about your own citizens' safety.

See, the Palestinians are victims of Hamas and Israel. It's one of the reasons why I don't like the fact they're being slaughtered. They're in an impossible position.

I guess if the question is, who is more culpable for the bombings of civilian infrastructure: Hamas leadership or the Israeli gov't/military, I'd have to say the Israelis because they are the ones dropping bombs.

Originally Posted by blankall

More surgical and strategic, that's 100% a statement I can agree with. But the rest of this stuff is absolutely wild. Calling Israel to break all sorts of international laws by executing non-combatants on foreign soil. Absolving Hamas from hiding behind civilians the way they are.

I like how you think following random international protocols at the cost of thousands of innocent lives is more noble than breaking international protocols to kill a few dozen people who are actually responsible for October 7.

That's absolutely wild.