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  • Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children

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  • You didn’t link those because those are the ones Israel singed, you linked them because you didn’t know the difference.

    The protocol I provisions on indiscriminate attacks define what and which civilian deaths are acceptable. Indiscriminate bombings - like blowing up a car in front of a completely unrelated building full of civilians - are unacceptable under protocol I. If your argument is that those attacks are moral because Israel is not a signatory of that protocol I’d argue they’re still committing war crimes, they just don’t admit it.

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  • Again, same tired arguments. You are claiming the same thing bigots have claimed for time immemorial.

    When women were fighting for the vote the argument made against them was that they would make poor choices. You arguing differently about women now doesn’t matter - you are making the same type of argument against Palestinians that were made against discriminated against groups at every turn.

    White enslavers argued that black slave revolts justified continued enslavement, and this is precisely the argument you’re making.

  • Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children

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  • Killing an enemy combatant is a military objective, so attacking a building containing an enemy combatant does not meet any of those criteria.

    You seem to think that the presence of a military objective justifies any amount of civilian damage and death. A plain text reading of Protocol I - which you have clearly read for the first time, considering you linked the wrong articles earlier - says exactly the inverse of that. You are interpreting Article 51 of Protocol I to mean what you want, not what it says.

  • Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children

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  • No, explicitly wrong:

    Indiscriminate attacks are prohibited. Indiscriminate attacks are:

    (a) those which are not directed at a specific military objective; (b) those which employ a method or means of combat which cannot be directed at a specific military objective; or (c) those which employ a method or means of combat the effects of which cannot be limited as required by this Protocol;

    What you are describing is unequivocally a war crime. the ICC didn’t charge Netanyahu with war crimes just for the fun of it.

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  • This is literally the same argument bigots have always made. Lemme ask you a question: if we let women vote do you really think they would make the right choices?

    If we let black people use the same bathrooms as white people do you really think they’d behave?

    If we let those refugees in do you really think they’ll contribute to society?

    If we dismantle apartheid do you really think they can govern themselves?

    If we free the slaves do you really think they can do anything but menial labor?

    What I think is whenever someone asks me if I really think we should stop discriminating against a group of people because they’re not worthy of respect, dignity, and basic right to life, I think that person fucking sucks

  • Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children

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  • Those are articles of the Geneva Convention. Protocol I of the Geneva Convention is different. It was added later. The protocols are like amendments.

    https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/api-1977/article-51

    It clearly lays out what constitutes targeting of civilians. But the fact that you need to be told that killing civilians is wrong says everything that should be said.

  • Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children

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  • Not according to Articles 51 and 54 of Protocol I of the Geneva Convention, but then again who cares about war crimes, right?

  • Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children

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  • When you dehumanize and demonize your opponent to the extent you are right now, you have lost the moral high ground.

  • Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children

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  • That’s a lot of mental gymnastics to justify killing thousands of children

  • Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children

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  • Fascinating that “a bunch of civilians” doesn’t factor into that valuation

  • Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children

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  • You mean like a game cafe

  • Trump probation interview set for Monday after hush money conviction

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  • Honest answer is probably because no one knows shit about fuck so they are reporting anything and everything they can. If they had more, they’d probably report it

  • Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars

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  • Knowledge Fight is gonna be extra spicy again this week

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    YSK: lemmy.ml is managed by tankies, and lead lemmy developer is a tankie

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  • Ok, I didn’t ask that, though. That is a completely different discussion that no one is having.

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    YSK: lemmy.ml is managed by tankies, and lead lemmy developer is a tankie

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  • Ok but they are administering and moderating their instance according to their political beliefs about a specific nation. They’re not defending China’s economic policies at Tiananmen Square or their notions on tariffs with Uyghurs. I don’t think you answered the question in the way you think you did.

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  • What’s that got to do with censoring some discussions about some countries?

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  • I don’t know that I’d agree that the political beliefs of the lemmy.ml admins are lemmys greatest strengths. Certainly federation amd open source contributions are core to lemmy but support of a specific nation’s policies and actions certainly is not.

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  • Mods and admins have enormous power to shape what can be discussed using comment moderation tools, bans, and promoted content. At the very least you should be aware of what potential biases an admin has that may inform how they moderate.

  • Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse"

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  • By this logic they should be perfectly fine with any sex that can’t lead to pregnancy, right?

    Right?

    Right?