And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, it's actually Israel's fault.
And if it was, we didn't mean it.
And if we did, Israelis deserved it.
Apply to every missile attack from Gaza over the last 15 years.
Look at any photo of any neighborhood in Israel, is there anywhere that remotely looks similar to the pile of rocks that Gaza looks like now?
Universities, hospitals, so much infrastructure, all gone. So much of Gaza is now people living in tents. Israel destroyed so much civilian infrastructure that existed.
How’s that similar to you?
(In this case, I'm of the opinion that both sides committed clear, deliberate war crimes.)
Also, comparing Nazi Germany, a massively powerful industrial state, with a tiny, poor territory under foreign occupation by a vastly superior power is insane.
What? You mean countries like Monaco and Liechtenstein?
> more soldiers, more rockets
Simply counting the # of soldiers or rockets is disingenuous when this is obviously an asymmetric war.
It's clear that the method of combatant recognition employed by the IDF is flawed, given they're killing aid workers and people from the UN.
Eg, here is Hamas' bread and butter rocket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket
There is more technology in a modern rifle round than in those rockets + launch systems (if you even dare call them that).
> more war-fighting infrastructure
Please explain what you mean by "war-fighting infrastructure ".
> Gaza wasn't a particularly poor place before the war, certainly not by the standards of the middle east
Depends on what you mean by "standards of the Middle East", but just compare Israel($52k) and Gaza ($3455) for 2023:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
> It had mansions and average salaries that, for some professions, were higher than average salaries in Israel.
"The wealthiest in a poor country have more money than the average in a developed country", means what exactly?
How did you develop your understanding of this situation? And what are you trying to communicate here?
There was a partial blockade, not a full blockade, and this partial blockade came after Palestinians launched the second intifada. Prior to the october 7 massacre, perpetrated by Hamas and gazan civilians, tens of thousands of gazans were able to travel out of gaza through egypt and israel, where many of them worked. nearly 75,000 truckloads of food and cargo went into gaza from israel in 2022. Gaza exported lots too.
My point is that Israel had full control about exactly what Gaza was allowed to import and export (and frequently used those controls for collective punishment as well)
I don't quite see how under those circumstances, they were able to build "a more powerful army than many European countries", unless you talk about Luxembourg or the Vatican.
Yes. Hamas attacks civilians, the IDF attacks Hamas.
Hamas brags even about their failed attacks.
Your comparison fails at the first step.
> And if it was, we didn't mean it.
And this one! How often does Hamas pull the "we didn't mean it!" card for their attacks on Israel? Have they ever? Of course they mean it, they're a bunch of assholes.
Sure but pro Hamas advocates deny everything.
That's rhetorical btw, since your comment was not made in good faith.