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    and then imagine them all dead?

    Did that happen?

    Also while atrocities were committed on October 7th, AFAIK there was no mass murder. And if you’re wondering how so many people died then, there’s an unknown but significant number of IDF-inflicted casualties in those 1139.

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      I’m not sure what’s the definition of mass murder but advancing in a city/place and start killing indiscriminately sounds a lot like it.

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        Yes but I’m saying that didn’t happen to my knowledge. From what we know so far about the attack, the IDF response was far from careful not to harm civilians, and in some cases chose to actively kill hostages to get the Hamas soldiers who captured them.

        Israel so far hasn’t done anything close to releasing the number of people who died to IDF fire, or just in the crossfire between Hamas and the IDF, and until they do that they have no grounds to claim Hamas committed mass murder.

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        ~ 1/3 military kills is definitely not “indiscriminately killing”. These numbers change everything.

        It’s not a mass murder anymore. Oct7 was a justified targeted retaliation.

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          67% civilian casualties is a universally abhorrent figure, and shows a complete disregard for the value of innocent human lives.

          Also, mass murder is generally defined as the killing of 3 or more persons at a time. Not exactly a high bar.

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            67% civilian casualties is a universally abhorrent figure

            Is it? I mean civilians getting killed is bad no matter the number, and I’m not denying Hamas soldiers committed war crimes, but for example in Iraq the US coalition’s percentage was 77%.

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              Because everyone is so happy that Iraq happened? Here, fixed:

              77% civilian casualties is also a universally abhorrent figure

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                  Ah, I see what you’re saying now. Unfortunately yes, 67% it isn’t particularly out of the ordinary. Perhaps I’m in a bit of a bubble, but I think/hope the vast majority of people consider this historical “normal” to be “abhorrent” these days. Such would be a positive change for society.

                  Perhaps I should also clarify that by “universal”, I don’t mean “everyone agrees”, but rather “regardless of the circumstances”. I included this to suggest that I think the civilian casualty rate in Palestine is also abhorrent, and I don’t think the October 7 attacks justify it in the slightest.

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                    Perhaps I’m in a bit of a bubble, but I think/hope the vast majority of people consider this historical “normal” to be “abhorrent” these days.

                    That’s true. Normally I’d talk about not even close to all the civilian casualties are Hamas-inflicted, but mostly I wanted to point out that the popular Israeli narrative of “they entered our villages and indiscriminately killed our people in a brutal terrorist attack” is wrong even going by the 67% alone.

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            My man you better not start reading about American civilian casualty figures. And ESPECIALLY not about israel ones.

            Also most israeli civilians are IDF reservists so they are in fact uncounted soldiers. The IDF just called up 300.000 “innocent civilians” to commit genocide in Gaza? lmao.

            The best number is how little children were killed in compared to the total amount of people.

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              My man you better not start reading about American civilian casualty figures. And ESPECIALLY not about israel ones.

              Let me guess, I would find more universally abhorrent figures? What exactly do you think “universally” means?

              Also most israeli civilians are IDF reservists

              Where the fuck did you get that from?

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                  I don’t follow your argument. So civilians that go through compulsory military service are not civilians? Korea, Vietnam, and Denmark have basically no civilian population? Or is it wartime conscription that you have a problem with? Is every American citizen an attack target because they theoretically could be conscripted as a response to the attack?

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                    If they are IDF conscripts they’re not civilians. Don’t even dare to compare israeli colonists to Koreans.

                    If people went into Hamas military service and become a “Hamas reservist” then you wouldn’t even doubt to call those people terrorists.

                    There are actual israelis that rejected IDF service and even people that advocates for peace that were killed which is very sad. But the majority are military.

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          Justified retaliation, and an operation meant to get concessions out of Israel for Gazans. That’s why they took the hostages.

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      there was no mass murder

      Go fuck yourself with a fork if 1139, or even 500 isn’t a mass murder in your dictionary, I don’t feel like I want to talk to you. You don’t help palestinians by downplaying what hamas bastards did to jews while enjoying golf courses in Quatar.

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        Fuck yourself first asshole they used this excuse to declare a genocide and it comes out Israeli leadership fucking funded Hamas and allowed this shit to happen.

        Hamas sucks but everything they did has Israeli hands helping and now Israeli hands are committing genocide.

        How fuckin stupid are you?

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            Yes i absolutely will excuse Hamas. They’re a rabid angry abused dog taunted and then their owner secretly unlocked the fence and cried “what a bad dog look what it did to me!”

            Israel is the start and end of this Hamas is a pawn. Fuck off idiot.

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              You are honest about that. I’d give you that. It feels refreshing to find an opponent who stays by their ideals. Thinking you are terminally wrong, I respect you still being there.

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            Excuse Hamas for what?

            Launching an attack on a white supremacist settler-colonialist state that has been waging war on Palestinians since 1949?

            I think it is you that needs to get lost.

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                Killing a thousand of people is ok, right?

                Not keeping up with current events, are you?

                Or are you just so desperate to cling to your pro-Israeli narrative that you will simply ignore them?

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                  Do you suggest I’ve hallucinated all these killings done by Hamas? They did indeed happened. There are still hostages kept by them in Gaza.

                  IDF isn’t right using that as a reason to murder 10x more. Netanyahu should be roped on the closest tree branch if you’d ask me. But israelis doing these crimes don’t excuse Hamas’s attack. It is still a morbid act of terror that should be remembered and acted upon.

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                    Do you suggest I’ve hallucinated all these killings done by Hamas?

                    It’s down to below your hysterical “thousands” now, apologist… you know what that means? It means Hamas showed far more restraint during their attack than Israel has in all it’s genocidal existence.

                    Netanyahu should be roped on the closest tree branch

                    You can shove your “let’s-pretend-this-is-all-Netenyahu’s-fault” narrative where the sun don’t shine. Israel has been a genocidal white supremacist settler-colonialist state since the day it was created.

                    But israelis doing these crimes don’t excuse Hamas’s attack.

                    No. It thoroughly justifies Hamas’s attack. It would still be justified if Hamas carried out ten similar attacks. Israel is a white supremacist settler-colonialist state - the use of force against it is justified by default.

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        I literally responded to that in the very next sentence. Until the IDF counts the people their own fire killed, and the ones who died in the crossfire, both of which exist in significant numbers, we have no evidence Hamas did anything close to mass murder. Also that 1139 is counting the 373 security force people, which are legitimate military targets.

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                The crossfire, reckless (sometimes deliberate when they were taken hostage) IDF fire and Hamas war crimes. These three categories all contain significant numbers of people, so until we know who killed how many and where there are no grounds to claim Hamas committed mass murder.