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Old 05-12-2023, 21:02   #956
jfman
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Re: Hamas Israel War

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
There will always be a next time for a defacto Palestinian state that massacres Israeli civilians.

Well every other nation that’s been in a war has.

Why do you think this war should be played by other rules than any other war in history?
This isn’t a war in any meaningful sense, it’s a massacre until Israel gets bored of it or America tells them to stop. Palestinian civilians are, broadly, defenceless. For those that haven’t been killed many have already lost everything they have, and there will be no meaningful reconstructions afterwards. Economies take generations to recover from the kinds of damage that have been undertaken to date. Is that a punishment on hundreds of thousands a price worth paying for a security that will never exist?

I don’t think this war should be “played by different rules”. I think it should stop. It doesn’t make Israel, its allies, or Jewish communities around the world any safer the longer it continues.
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