• Crow@lemmy.world
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    This is one of those war crimes you can know very little about war crimes and still identify. It’s just that fucked.

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      It’s called “perfidy”

      Quoting Wikipedia:

      In the context of war, perfidy is a form of deception in which one side promises to act in good faith with the intention of breaking that promise once the unsuspecting enemy is exposed.

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    This is wildly fucked up. Why are they literally using terrorist tactics?

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      terrorism is the war of poor

      Hold up a mirror so the script gets flipped

      'cause when it’s in reverse it ain’t wrong no more

      Warfare’s the terrorism of the rich

      Brother Ali - Mourning in America

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      This is like mobster tactics or something, terrorist tactics is indiscriminate bombing, collective punishment, scorched earth, torture, targeting civilians, targeting humanitarian efforts, disproportionate responses. Everything they’ve been doing until now.

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      Because in war, the only goal is to remove the enemy by any means. Warcrimes mean nearly nothing if you remove the entire opposition. Victors write history books.

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    Well that’s certainly a war crime. Wonder if the rest of the world will look the other way on this too.

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      Oil is involved so… yes.:-(

      Remember the Republicans in the USA are still salivating over how to stop funding to curb Russian aggression while simultaneously wanting to fund Israel.

      We went from being one step away to joining with Ukraine to now being one step away from joining Israel.

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      They’re just doing it so blatantly so they can show everyone they can get away with it. It’s the same reason Putin kills his rivals in ways that obviously implicate him, he wants people to know it was him and nobody can do anything about it.

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      Israel was literally founded by Irgun - a terrorist organization.

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    Check out the r/worldnews thread. Example:

    So let me get this straight.

    Israel bombs hospitals to target Hamas terrorists. Everyone hates that because of the indirect casualties to civilian lives and direct damage to precious infrastructure.

    Israel then does targeted attacks inside hospitals and ensures only Hamas terrorists die with very minimal damage to anything else. Everyone hates that because “they didn’t do it right.”

    So then how are they supposed to get into hospitals to take these guys down? Is it a free terrorist shelter now? Is everyone inside a hospital safe from retaliation?

    They want praise for only committing like three separate warcrimes instead of blowing up the already occupied hospital.

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    Wtf is a “Jenin cemetery”? Does every new jihadist splinter group get a cemetery?

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      in a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

      The city is called Jenin. The splinter grouped is named for the city. The cemetary is named for the city.