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      1 year ago

      Nah we don’t bomb banks, but if the robbers have been doing it for years yelling god is great, while massacring civilians , you too would expect someone to do something about it, or do we just put another lock on the bank hoping this time it will be enough.

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          Neither is letting them fire rockets towards you for years on end. There is only so much you can do with bank robbers that are funded by others around them, who believe it’s their god given duty to rob banks. TO BE CLEAR civilians being killed is terrible on either side, just one side is putting a lot of effort into making bomb shelters and missile defense, while the other is putting in a lot of effort into creating tunnels to store and smuggle rockets.

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              The US likely thinks that the nation state that was established by the UN to provide a home for a people victimized by an attempt to eradicate Jews in Europe is worth defending. I’m no fan of any of this shit, but as someone else recently pointed out, if Hamas stops receiving funding, the likely result is less conflict. If Israel stops receiving funding, three likely result is that they will be wiped off the face of the earth in short order. I believe there is truth to that.

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              If the US had given Hamas $3.8 billion, it definitely wouldn’t have been used for an iron dome.

              Yes I do believe Hamas is inherently evil, the same way I believe the north Korean leadership is evil.

              Plenty of variables to take into account, and it’s understandable how they got like this, but the same way a lot of serial killers have an abusive upbringing, does not mean everyone with an abusive upbringing will be a serial killers.

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                  Probably the first response I am in agreement with, there isn’t an easy solution and I hope the one chosen has the least amount of casualties in the long run.

                  I have to go but I may come back to this. Have a good day, and hopefully neither of us will have to live through what’s going on there.

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        you too would expect someone to do something about it, or do we just put another lock on the bank hoping this time it will be enough

        Americans have been shooting down each other in schools with guns for years. Don’t see anyone doing anything about it…

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      There are real word criminal situations when the hostages do suffer as result of police action.

      And the only way to encourage the use of human shield during the war like now, is to criticize the other side for deaths. If Israel stops because of the use of human shields, because all of the pressure now amounts from different players without even criticism of Hamas then FOR SURE next time (and there will be next time) Hamas will use human shields even more and more people will die.