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  • My understanding, and it’s basically impossible to verify this, is that the resistance was focused on military targets and taking POWs (which the israelis count the same any any civilian prisoners, and tried to make it seem like all prisoners or casualties were civilians), and a bunch of Gazan civilians independently broke out when the fences went down and grabbed a bunch of Israelis and handed them over to Hamas. Hard to say.

    In any case, it would still be in line with the reciprocity and proportionality aspects of the laws of war. Israeli forces regularly kidnap Palestinians, though they call it “arresting”, and hold them indefinitely in very poor conditions with no real legal process. This was going on long before October 7th.






  • Did Stalin say that Ukrainians are human animals who need to be exterminated? No, but Yoav Gallant said it about Palestinians. Ben Gvir and other MKs wear noose pins to show their support for execution of detainees, and it looks like the Iasraeli law for the mandatory execution of “terrorists”, which in Israeli rhetoric includes kids who throw rocks at tanks, is going to be passed.

    Israeli rhetoric is routinely ethnic supremacist and eliminationist. The entire Zionist project has been one of establishing a Jewish majority state in a Jewish minority country - first they expelled enough Palestinians in the Nakba to establish a comfortable Jewish majority state, and then they continued to expand said state through settlements, all the while expelling enough Palestinians to keep a majority. They continue to expand into the West Bank even as they’ve bombed Gaza to rubble and starved its people.

    Your entire argument seems to come down to “well, if they didn’t do it to Palestinians, the Palestinians would do it to the Israelis,” That in itself is genocidal rhetoric.




  • You didn’t answer my question, and you are a dumbass. The “proof” you linked is just more baseless assertions, and none of them support the idea that any slogan calling for a free Palestine is actually coded language that actually refers to expelling all the Jews.

    Really, it’s just projection. The Israeli project is the expulsion of all Arabs from Gaza and the West Bank, and they’ve said it openly. To quote Yoav Gallant, “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly… There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed.” That quote encapsulates both statement of intent to commit genocide, as well as genocidal dehumanization. Yet it’s always pro-Palestinian speech that’s suppressed and criminalized - pro-Israel speech is not subjected to the same “actually, this means this” standard, despite how the Israeli state is both genocidal in intent and actively undertaking genocide.