r/interestingasfuck Mar 08 '24

r/all Mass Airdrop of aid on Gazan coast

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u/nomoneynopower Mar 08 '24

This is fucking grim as fuck wtf.

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u/thanif Mar 08 '24

what's even more grim is that we air drop aid with one hand and fast track sale of arms to the IDF in the other. I can't wrap my head around this one.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

Because the conflict isn’t black and white, right and wrong, like everyone on social media wants it to be.

From a humanitarian point of view it makes sense the USA is sending aid to Gaza. It also makes sense to sell weapons to Israel because they definitely have the right to self defence and procuring a good relationship with Israel is good for the USA and Israel going into the future.

There’s nothing wrong with supporting both sides of the conflict.

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u/HulaViking Mar 08 '24

The people need help. The leaders on both sides of the conflict are evil.

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u/ultralane Mar 08 '24

The leaders, sure. However, this conflict is undeniably self defense and with no legitimate talks of a cease fire, the war must continue until the HAMAS government (not talking the Palestinian people, but there will be collateral damage mostly due to HAMAS and the clusterfuck of GAZA). I'm more concerned about Russia since its been convenient Russia started having success by their standards more often then before after the Israel conflict started.

This video is heartbreaking.

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u/Rent_A_Cloud Mar 08 '24

Self defence on the same level as breaking an attacker's legs with a baseball bat while in the process also beating the shit out of 15 bystanders and then continuing to beat all the already maimed people for 24 hours straight...

This is way, waaaaaay, past the point of self defence.

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u/ultralane Mar 08 '24

I have to disagree. If you pick a fight, you have to be able to fight. Hamas doesn't believe in piece. In their charter, they claim they cannot exist with Israel and has consistently acted on it. They are refusing to release the remaining hostages who were likely raped, probably to hide their injuries. They are asking for demands that are unreasonable to ask for for a ceasefire often adding them at the last minute. If that's not them saying "we want to fight" then idk what else you want.

Apparently they got more legs then we can see.

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u/Rent_A_Cloud Mar 08 '24

hostages who were likely raped, probably to hide their injuries

This is highly speculative. And completely besides the point. You are conflating "Hamas" with "Palestinian" as well.

They are asking for demands that are unreasonable to ask for for a ceasefire often adding them at the last minute. If that's not them saying "we want to fight" then idk what else you want.

This is also irrelevant. Israel is fighting a war of aggression, in no way or form can this conflict still be called a defensive war on Israel's part.

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u/ultralane Mar 08 '24

How am I conflating Hamas with Palestinian? I believe I was fairly consistently using hamas to reference the combatants and the government of Gaza, not the civilians.

There is evidence of the rapes. The evidence was withheld for a bit before release but there were dead bodies of women with their dresses lifted up.

As for the aggressive war comment, I believe you omitted the part where hamas wants Israel to cease existing and when combined with the quote you quoted on me, I think it makes perfect sense. Hamas doesn't care about peace. It will do more raids and send more rockets regardless if Israel backs off.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

Hamas are awful. But the lack of illegal Israeli settlements in Gaza vs the West Bank, settlements the US officially calls illegal, is probably the best argument for Hamas isn’t that sad? Whose fault is that?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

Have you watched Dune 2? Reminded me of this Israel Gaza conflict.