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Originally Posted by Pierre
Did the IRA invade main land U.K., and murder near 2 million people?
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By all mean necessary unfortunately.
They must be made to know that their tactic of using their citizens as a human shield no longer will work.
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There's no basis for this in international law, to the extent that it exists at all.
It's not merely the killing of civilians - mainly women and children - it's the systematic destruction of infrastructure and institutions. The blockading of international aid, food and medical supplies of no military value.
That justification taken to the extreme would support enacting a genocide on the basis of it being unknown whether any Hamas militants remained down to the last single Palestinian. Which is why it's no justification at all.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
It’s not an unlimited cost though. As historical military operations go it one that killed the fewest innocents v combatants ever.
Feel free to research that.
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has killed less civilians and decimated far more of the Ukranian armed forces as a ratio. Nobody is holding that up as a humanitarian success story. Quite the opposite.
Israel would have eliminated Hamas many multiples of times over at even a 1:1 ratio. Ukranian civilian casualties to military ones are about 1:6. That's with a conservative estimate of Ukranian military casualties which are disputed since the US are now pressuring Ukraine to lower the age of conscription to 18.