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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
But to come back to immediate matters, should Israel not have retaliated against Hamas, thus ensuring no Gazan civilian casualties? Or what?
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This has, time and again, been answered comprehensively. The only times a suggestion that Israel do not retaliate against a terror organisation arises in the thread is when you, or a very small number of others, put it up as a straw man.
Nobody, anywhere else, in over a thousand posts has said it.
The real question is why some think that Palestinian civilians should be denied the rights and protections in international law that the post-WW2 rules of war set out.
If the Palestinian people rose up right now, and had the capability (they don’t, but it’s hypothetical) to fight back into Israeli civilian areas and decimate those to the ground nobody, anywhere would be saying “nobody is qualified to tell the Palestinian people how to respond to tens of thousands of their people massacred”.
It’d, rightly, be universally condemned. You’d have no shortage of comment from western political leaders.