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Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?

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[–] Melkath@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hamas Rebels carried out an effective terrorist attack in retaliation to years of GLOBALLY SANCTIONED terrorism at the hands if Israel.

Now what was are observing is Israel quadrupling down on their terrorist activities whilst simultaneously waging an infowar.

Who do you think is more equipped to wage an infowar? A first world, heavily subsidized, safe government with all of the state of the art technology a little terrorist state can ask for? Or a poor destitute region whose infrastructure has been absolutely devastated over the decades, is again getting pummeled at full force, where hundreds if not thousands are getting ruthlessly slaughtered daily?

And Israel is STILL losing the infowar.

Why? Because the people of the world know exactly what is occurring but the governments of the world are so overwhelmingly corrupt that they maintain status quo so they also continue to get their shares of the subsidies.

Earth is fucked.

[–] Floufym@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hamas didn’t do a terrorist attack. A war crime, sure. A terrorist attacked, no.

[–] Melkath@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I'm genuinely intrigued by how you separate those terms in reference to the Hamas attack on the music festival.

Not being confrontational. I'm struggling with a mean does or does not equal average does or does not descriptive statistic conversation on another thread.

Off the cuff, my take has been "Hamas is a terrorist organization. The Israeli Military is a much bigger and more agregious terrorist organization. Let them have eachother and let Israili and Palestinian civilians make music together".

So here I am genuinely interested in your (and anyone elses) answer to "what is a terrorist attack, and how does it differ from a war crime? Bonus points: In current events, explain how Hamas has committed war crimes, but not terrorist attacks?"