• gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
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    10 hours ago

    They’ve been bombing Israel for nearly a year - since Oct 8, well before Israel went into Gaza. Actually, even before Israel completely recaptured the areas captured by Hamas in southern Israel.

    What choice does Israel have other than to give up on 60,000 of their own citizens permanently displaced by Hezbollah?

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      2 hours ago

      I think they have a choice to not use exploding pagers regardless of any bombing.

      Also, their citizens are almost never even at risk of being injured by those bombs, unlike what happened in Lebanon.

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        47 minutes ago

        You’ve only described an inaction as Israel’s choice. Do you believe Israel should do nothing? Or do you believe that this attack was particularly egregious? The question stands. What choice of action does Israel have?

        By all accounts, this was an incredibly precise attack, harming thousands of terrorists and very few civilians who likely chose knowingly to be in the immediate vicinity of terrorists. It has caused a major interruption in their ability to coordinate future terror attacks.

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          42 minutes ago

          I believe this attack is particularly egregious.

          By all accounts, this was an incredibly precise attack, harming thousands of terrorists and very few civilians who likely chose knowingly to be in the immediate vicinity of terrorists.

          That is absolutely not what I read. Furthermore, it is not a crime to live near bad people and expecting people to just leave their homes, which may have been in their family for generations, because of who their neighbors are is unreasonable. On top of that, how could they have possibly guaranteed every person with an exploding pager would be away from innocent people?

          It also normalizes this sort of attack. That is not a good thing for the world.