• jmsy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The Hamas active members can have time to hide and reset for another attack if there is a cease fire. They’ll refortify the hospitals and schools they use to hide, as well as gather civilans for shields. They can set up booby traps for a ground invasion into Gaza.

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        1 year ago

        How bad do you think Israel is at carpet bombing? Honestly, multiple weeks of carpet bombing, by any modern estimate, should dismantle all of Gaza. That very demonstrably has not happened.

        So are they really, really bad at it or are they not attempting it?

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                1 year ago

                I think you may want to investigate what a modern “carpet bombing” campaign can do, because it’s at least an order of magnitude more destructive.

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                  Ok so the issue is semantics? Ok fine over 6000 bombs dropped in a tiny area. What gaza is 365 sqaure km, most of the bombs are in the north so over 6k bombs in an area of 180 Square km? Obviously ignoring the open spaces so what is the threshold of acceptability for you?

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                    There were more than that many rockets launched into Israel in the same period. Should responses not be proportionate?

                    I’ve already stated multiple times that Israel is bungling the humanitarian aspect of this and should be held accountable for that.

                    That doesn’t make it genocide, or even disproportionate, by any stretch of the imagination. It’s most assuredly not “carpet bombing.”

                    There is no country on the planet that would not respond similarly.

                    Is it a shitty situation? Hell yeah. Are the causes of this long and varied? Sure. Is this specific war uniquely bad? No. It’s pretty run-of-the-mill. War is just a terrible thing. This is a tragedy, and there’s no need to make it seem worse than it is because of politics.