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Originally Posted by Pointman
Back to your question, there's no such things as "acceptable" and "not acceptable" in wars. Wars themselves are not acceptable. Yet, once it's on you do whatever it takes to win. If it means, that you must take civilians and let them clean up the traps set up by Hamas - go for it.
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No...no it absolutely does not.
I have seen videos of Israeli soldiers sending blindfolded Palestinians to run a direction to pick them off as sport. I have seen videos of Israeli soldiers tying up Palestinians on top of vehicles. I have seen videos of Israeli settlers beating up West Bank Palestinian families with bats while being supported by Israeli soldiers.
And these are systemic and daily. In the past 24 hours there are videos of Israeli soldiers sniping and shooting at clearly identified and unarmed reporters. There's even videos of a mule with food supplies being killed for fun (one posted today). I counted 10 sniper shots in the video...on a mule.
These are actions we have seen from Russia against Ukrainian citizens. We are seeing Israelis doing the same against Palestinians.
None of this is about winning a war and these acts are systemic, to the point where Israeli hostages waving a makeshift white flag were mistakenly gunned down by Israeli soldiers as they were killing for sport. Such acts are warcrimes and genocide. Hamas's atrocious actions, usage of hospitals as human shields and Palestinian support for Hamas, Hamas wishing for the total annihilation of Israel as a state, does in no way give a carte blanche for Israelis to commit genocide on civilians
We see Ukrainians in Russia right now...and we do not see similar videos of warcrimes committed against Russian citizens. Quite the opposite in fact.
Israel absolutely has a right to defend itself and eliminate threats against its existence, and this could mean collateral damage is necessary evil to achieve success. This is
not what is happening right now