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Hamas terrorists fire anti-tank missile at IDF troops from Gaza hospital entrance (www.ynetnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, they signed off to protect Israelis. If Palestine were Israeli citizens then maybe they'd have some obligation to risk their lives to minimise damage to them but otherwise why should they? Soldiers aren't expected to sacrifice themselves for foreign citizens. Hell some are just brutally sadistic towards them with legal impunity because the citizens of one government have next to no rights in the other aside from whats deemed diplomatically useful and even that is beyond the purview of the average soldier. Theres a reason America switched to using drone strikes on enemy infrastructure instead of sending their soldiers. That has the exact same trade off as well which is more civilian casualties and less soldier casualties. The bad thing here is israel is actively targetting civilian infrastructure and hamas is known to hide in such infrastructure, both things raising the innocent casualty rate immensely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

. If Palestine were Israeli citizens then maybe they’d have some obligation to risk their lives to minimise damage to them but otherwise why should they?

Got it, human life not worth much to Israeli soldiers if they are not Jewish and/or Israeli. By the actions of Isralis in the West Bank, I would say the Israeli government doesn't value "Arab Israeli" lives that much either.

Soldiers aren’t expected to sacrifice themselves for foreign citizens.

No, but they are also not expected to keep an apartheid state running but here we are.

The bad thing here is israel is actively targetting civilian infrastructure and hamas is known to hide in such infrastructure, both things raising the innocent casualty rate immensely.

If you can't see how it's directly Israeli soldiers that "shoot through babies to kill a terrorist", then I can't help you. If you are unable to see how these people all died from Israeli missiles directly, that Israel could have not fired if it was a self-respecting humanitarian nation... then I can't help you, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Got it, human life not worth much to Israeli soldiers if they are not Jewish and/or Israeli. By the actions of Isralis in the West Bank, I would say the Israeli government doesn't value "Arab Israeli" lives that much either.

You're grandstanding. I'm sure many soldiers care about the Palestinians plight in this situation because their human beings. I'm saying their not obligated to, not that they don't. It's not their responsibility as a consequence of their role. Even if it was do you think an individual soldiers is defining on the ground policy. Like command comes down to level a building and a band of soldiers just join together and say "no, I'll go in myself and confirm the threat alone" like some cheesy American movie.

No, but they are also not expected to keep an apartheid state running but here we are.

What exactly do you think is a soldiers job? because they don't determine diplomatic policy. That's on politicians. One of their responsibilities is helping enforce that policy but they don't exactly have a choice here if they want to protect Israelis. Just quitting and getting discharged ain't exactly gonna stop hamas pulling shit like the October attack.

If you can't see how it's directly Israeli soldiers that "shoot through babies to kill a terrorist", then I can't help you. If you are unable to see how these people all died from Israeli missiles directly, that Israel could have not fired if it was a self-respecting humanitarian nation... then I can't help you, sorry.

Everyone could just not do things. Hamas could've just not attacked in October and killed a bunch of innocent civilians. Hamas could just not keep the hostages they've taken and return them so Israel isn't incentivised to level Palestine to the ground to find them. This isn't a rational line of reasoning. If you're outraged and upset that's fine, frankly it would be weirder if anyone wasn't given this clusterf*ck of a situation. But that doesn't mean you can just make large generic points and obvious lapses in reasoning and not get called out on it.